Topic: Lund University

Elite athletes at greater risk for arthritis: study

(Reuters) - Elite male athletes who participate in high-contact sports such as football, soccer and rugby have a higher risk of developing knee and hip osteoarthritis than men who exercise little or not at all, a Swedish study found.There was a doubled ...

Elite athletes at greater risk for arthritis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elite male athletes who participate in high-contact sports like football, soccer and rugby have a higher risk of developing knee and hip arthritis later in life than men who exercise a little or not at all, a recent ...
Women with lobular breast cancer are nearly twice as likely as those with other forms of breast cancer to have a father who had cancer, especially ...
Until recently, ornithologists believed birds ran out of puff after travelling around 5000km non-stop. But in 2009, an international team of researchers reported that satellite tracking of a female bar-tailed godwit had revealed she had flown direct from Alaska to New Zealand ...
When it comes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), one criticism stands above the others: ? The anti-biotech Non-GMO Project notes that genetic modification creates ?combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and viral genes that do not occur in nature. ? The Huffington Post plugged last ...

Why Do Animals Migrate?

Mammals, insects and reptiles do it. Humpback whales top the list of lengthy mammal migrators, traveling as much as 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) one way. One generation of monarch butterflies flutters some 2,000 miles (3,219 km) between southern ...
A study conducted at Lund University in Sweden found that half of women have a gene involved in the issue of cancer and coffee consumption. "Drinking coffee can have a major effect on breast size," said Helena Jernstr?m, one of the ...
Cleaning in the traditional sense in the typical American household involves the use of chemicals to achieve the desired result. We use shower mildew removers, bleach, and countless bathroom sanitizers with chemical names few of us can hope to pronounce. Are these ...

Health Benefits of Strawberries

Strawberries are not only delicious, they are highly nutritious. Strawberries contain many cancer-fighting compounds that can help lower ones risk of developing cancer.. According to researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, and Lund University, extracts from strawberries inhibited proliferation ...

Butter Lowers Blood Fats in Men

New research from Lund University reveals butter produces a significantly lower increase in blood fats after a meal compared with olive oil and a new type of rape oil and linseed oil. The following morning a fasting blood test was taken to ...