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Health

• Soda consumption may affect your teeth as bad as most dangerous narcotics

  According to a new study, the excessive consumption of soda - even diet soda – affects your teeth as badly as ingesting two of the most dangerous narcotics on earth. The…

• Higher IQ linked to good concentration

  US researchers have found that people with higher IQs are slow to detect large background movements because their brains filter out non-essential information. Instead, they…

• Seven most unhealthy processed foods

  Most people prefere processed foods as having the advantage of saving time and this makes them tempting those who have a busy lifestyle and for those who don’t…

• Powerful statins increase type 2 diabetes risk by 22%

  Some statins, drugs taken to protect the heart, may increase the risk of developing type-2 diabetes, according to researchers in Canada. Their study of 1.5 million people,…

• Total face transplant performed in Poland

  Polish doctors say they have performed a total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident with stone-cutting machinery. Surgeons at the…

• Novel coronavirus kills Tunisian man

  A Tunisian man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV), in what is believed to be the first such case in Africa. Tunisia's health ministry said the 66-year-old had visited…