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Sleep disturbance in patients with diabetes is common and may negatively affect blood glucose (Photo: AFP)

Sleep disturbance in diabetic women may turn out to be fatal

A comprehensive sleep evaluation for diabetes patients should also include tests on symptoms such as neuropathic pain...

8 Nov 2017 2:41 PM GMT

People with schizophrenia have not benefited from reductions in cardiovascular deaths (Photo: AFP)

People with schizophrenia are three times more likely to die

A study looked at all deaths in Ontario over a 20-year period, more than 1.6 million deaths to understand trends in...

18 Sep 2017 2:25 PM GMT

In 2013, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie announced she had had both breasts surgically removed as a preventative measure after tests revealed she carried the mutation (Photo: AFP)

Study shows breast cancer gene doesn't really increase risk of death

Women with a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes have a seven-in-10 chance of getting breast cancer by the age of 80.

12 Jan 2018 5:30 AM GMT

Diabetes is a chronic illness in which the body is unable to control its blood glucose level. (Photo: Pixabay)

Study finds two out of three diabetes drugs lower death risk

All drugs lower blood sugar levels but results reveal while two of them reduced risk of death, one did not.

19 April 2018 3:07 AM GMT

The families of those who have tested HIV positive are, expectedly, living under the shadow of death.

Study finds HIV patients with depression face serious death risks

This is the first time that the impact of cumulative depression has been studied across the whole HIV care continuum.

2 March 2018 2:36 PM GMT

Both men and women who felt lonely were three times more likely to report symptoms of anxiety and depression (Photo: Pixabay)

Heart patients may be at higher risk of early death due to loneliness

Feeling lonely was associated with poor outcomes in all patients regardless of their type of heart disease.

10 Jun 2018 12:15 PM GMT

Those without a job also had an increased risk of recurrent heart failure (Photo: AFP)

Unemployment linked to increased risk of death

The ability to hold a job brings valuable information on wellbeing and performance status.

1 May 2017 4:36 AM GMT

High levels of pessimism have previously been linked to factors that affect cardiac health (Photo: AFP)

Pessimism can actually prove fatal: study

People with high levels of pessimism seemed to have a higher risk of CHD-induced mortality.

18 Nov 2016 3:48 AM GMT

Complications of gestational diabetes include excessive birth weight (Photo: AFP)

Winter babies increase death risk for mothers

Gestational diabetes mellitus is a serious pregnancy complication characterised by inadequate blood sugar control.

16 Nov 2016 12:51 PM GMT

Each additional correctly identified odour lowered the risk of mortality by 8 per cent (Photo: AFP)

People losing sense of smell face early death risk

Researchers from Stockholm University in Sweden followed about 1,774 adults aged 40 to 90 years for 10 years.

22 March 2017 2:48 PM GMT

The parents are appealing to the government for funds (Photo: YouTube)

Conjoined twins find hope in surgery as they face early death

The surgery came after months of observation as the doctors gear up for a complicated procedure.

25 July 2017 3:04 PM GMT

Processed meat can produce cancer-causing chemicals (Photo: AFP)

Risk of death from several diseases caused by red meat

Nitrates in processed meat were associated with a 15 percent increased risk of death from all causes.

26 May 2017 4:44 AM GMT