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Exercising for up to an hour a day can improve memory and learning in children and the elderly, scientists have found.

Walking or cycling regularly for between six months to a year can improve memory and problem solving skills in the elderly by between 15 and 20 per cent, according to researchers.

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Doctors say they have found a medical test that can diagnose the most common curable cause of high blood pressure.

Conn's syndrome - a disease of the adrenal glands that sit above the kidneys - is thought to be the cause behind one in 20 cases of hypertension.

But until now it has been difficult to detect, requiring a complex series of tests on blood taken from a vein supplying the adrenal gland.

Experts at the University of Cambridge say a simple scan can spot the problem.

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Eating enough fibre can cut the chance of developing bowel cancer by almost a fifth, a new study shows.

Although a high-fibre diet has long been known to be good for the gut and has been thought to be protective against bowel cancer, the study, published on the British Medical Journal website, is among the first to quantify the benefit.

The analysis of 25 studies, involving almost two million participants, found for every 10 gram increase in total dietary fibre, the risk of bowel cancer dropped by 10 per cent.

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Rare Side Effects of Long-Acting Beta-Agonists Are More Likely in Children

Children are more vulnerable than adults to rare but potentially life-threatening events associated with asthma drugs known as long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs), a new analysis from the FDA shows.

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American Neurological Association Recommends Best Treatments for the Movement Disorder

New treatment recommendations for a movement disorder called essential tremor were introduced this week by the American Neurological Association. The latest advice describes the most effective drugs and surgeries to help ease the trembling hands, head, or voice seen in this condition.

A panel of nine experts reviewed more than 250 recent studies in revising the treatment guidelines. They were published online in the journal Neurology and were last updated in 2005.

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common type of tremor and affects about 10 million Americans. A person with this disorder has periods of uncontrollable shaking. This shakiness might be seen in the hands, or as a nodding head or a quivering voice.

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German-grown bean sprouts are the most likely cause of the deadly E.coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and made more than 2,000 ill across Europe, officials said last night.

The admission is hugely embarrassing for Germany, which had previously blamed Spanish cucumbers for the bug.

Beansprouts are a common ingredient in salads and stir frys, but have previously been blamed for major health scares. They were held responsible for a serious outbreak of Salmonella in Britain last year and 17 E.coli-related deaths in Japan in 1996.

On Sunday evening, Gert Lindemann, agriculture minister in the northern state of Lower-Saxony, said a company that grew bean sprouts had been shut down and further test results were expected on Monday.

"There was a very clear trail (to this company) as the source of the infection," Mr Lindemann said in a news conference. He urged consumers in northern Germany to refrain from eating all types of sprouts.

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Pregnant woman Delivering the baby early may be the only treatment option in some instances

Scientists say they have identified genetic errors that appear to increase a pregnant woman's chance of getting the potentially life-threatening condition called pre-eclampsia.

Around four in every 100 women develops this problem of high blood pressure and leaky kidneys during pregnancy.

Now researchers have found faulty DNA may be to blame in some cases, PLoS Medicine journal reports.

The discovery could lead to new ways to spot and treat those at risk, they say.

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Study Shows Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphates Raises Risk of Attention Problems in Children

Exposure in the womb to pesticides known as organophosphates may increase the chance that children, especially boys, will develop attention problems by age 5, a study shows.

The research is published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

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Study: 22,000 U.S. Cataract Cases May Be Due to SSRI Antidepressants

SSRI antidepressants raise the risk of cataracts by about 15% -- enough to cause 22,000 extra cataract cases in the U.S.  each year, Canadian researchers suggest.

The study does not prove that antidepressants cause cataracts. And even if the finding is confirmed, the risk to an individual taking antidepressants is small.

But these widely prescribed drugs may pose a vision risk in elderly patients, suggest Mahyar Etminan, PharmD, and colleagues of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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