A little sunbathing, taking vitamin D supplements and eating foods rich in the vitamin, such as eggs and red meat, can all help you survive cancer. The vitamin also protects against heart disease and diabetes and strengthens our bones.

People who are taking an ACE inhibitor or an ARB drug for heart problems should stay at home and not meet up with people, say researchers from Louisiana State University.

Dr Malcolm Kendrick, a UK GP, estimates that people taking one of the drugs are four times more likely to die from the virus.

Candida albicans is a yeast infection that causes inflammation in the brain and leads to mild and temporary memory problems. The yeast causes granuloma-type structures that are similar to plaques seen in Alzheimer's sufferers.

Remdesivir can cut recovery time by around 30 percent, a new study has discovered, and one that produces 'clear-cut evidence' that it could become a front-line treatment, according to America's leading immunologist, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

The calories in the drink could make you obese and increase your risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease while those in starch won't have any harmful effect at all, say researchers from the University of California at Davis.

The higher the temperature goes above the 'normal' 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F), the more the body speeds up its natural defences against tumours, wounds and infections.

The additives—and specifically CMC and P80—cause inflammation in our gut that impacts on the brain, causing behavioural problems, say researchers at Georgia State University in the US.

The real drivers that determine our health are found in the molecules that regulate a cell's DNA, says Antony Jose, associate professor of cell biology at the University of Maryland.

The ticks are attracted to Type A blood group people, while the Type B folk seem to have an in-built defence mechanism that repels them.

In a laboratory test, the ticks—known as 'sheep ticks' or Ixodes Ricinus—were naturally drawn to the Type A samples around 36 per cent of the time, and to the Type B samples just 15 per cent of the time. Every blood group was included in the test, which involved a Petri dish and ticks that were placed in the dish for two minutes.

Non-profit research funding is not being allocated to the research of these cancers—and it could be because some consider the cancers are 'embarrassing' or have been stigmatized.

The severity of the disease has worsened in the past 20 years or so—some cases have needed hospital care—and is a trend that coincides with the introduction of a new version of the vaccine, from whole-cell pertussis to acellular pertussis.

They're turning to a range of alternatives, including homeopathy and herbal remedies, massage and osteopathy, according to a study of 40,000 Europeans.

The compounds—EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) in green tea and tannic acid in red wine—block the formation of toxic metabolites, molecules that are the building blocks of DNA and proteins, that occurs in people born with defective genes.

People born with metabolic diseases accumulate metabolites that, in large quantities, can be toxic and cause severe developmental and mental disorders. They've been linked to neurodegenerative problems such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, metabolic diseases, and some cancers. A common metabolic disorder in children is PKU (phenylketonuria).

Just 30 minutes of some physical activity—instead of sitting—every day can halve the rate of premature deaths from heart disease and cancer, another research group has found.

Most people in northern hemispheres are depleted in the vitamin because of the weakness of sunlight, the short summers and an over-zealous 'safe sun' campaign—and almost every rheumatoid arthritis sufferer has low levels, and probably that's true for people with other inflammatory diseases too.

Stimulating the vagus nerve, one of the body's longest nerves that stretches from the brain to the neck, chest and abdomen, reduces the symptoms of arthritis and lowers the biological markers of the disease.

Other chronic inflammatory diseases could also be treated with electro-stimulation of the vagus nerve, say researchers from Stanford University.

They tested a new device, the MicroRegulator, on a group of 14 RA sufferers who hadn't been helped by conventional treatment. They were treated either with a 'dummy' device or had the stimulation once or four times a day, for 12 weeks. At the end of the trial, those who had the stimulation once a day showed the best response, with biological markers down by 30 per cent. They also said their symptoms had improved.

"This is a really exciting development. For many patients suffering from RA, current treatments don't work, or aren't tolerated. These results open the door to a novel approach to treating not only RA, but other chronic inflammatory diseases," said Prof Thomas at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR).

(Source: EULAR 2019 conference, Madrid, June 14, 2019)

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