Honey is a much safer and healthier antitussive than most medicinal syrups. American scientists have shown this in a clinical study. The research team at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Professor Ian Paul, conducted a study on 105 children with colds who could not sleep because of the cough.

The bacterium Clostridium difficile occurs regularly in European hospitals. This is apparent from research by the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). According to doctor-microbiologist Ed Kuijper and doctor-infectiologist

The consequences of Q fever turn out to be much more serious than expected. The Q fever clinic of the Jeroen Bosch Hospital expects that several hundred Q fever patients will develop the chronic variant of Q fever and fear an epidemic. A spokeswoman for the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in Den Bosch confir

A weight problem? 25 percent of obese women dont think so. According to scientists at the University of Texas, more and more women consider their weight to be normal, because the population is generally getting fatter. For the study, published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology , more than 2,

Dentists have renewed the rules regarding the organization of the emergency service that people can fall back on outside working hours. As of January 1, 2011, things will change. To be in pain at all is of course no fun, but if you also go to an emergency service must and things are unclear… nobody

The health insurance premium will increase by 9 percent. Not good news, and a quarter of the Dutch say they fear they will run into financial problems. With the HealthTracker communication consultancy Porter Novelli and De Vos &Jansen Healthcare conducted a survey among more than 600 Dutch people a

Shocking:every week, three hundred Dutch people are struck by cardiac arrest outside the hospital. Only about ten percent of the 16,000 victims per year survive. The chance of survival must of course increase. That is why the Dutch Heart Foundation is launching the 6-minute campaign † The right act

Its Donor Week. For a week, various organizations are calling on Dutch people to become donors. Because they are desperately needed. The Donor Week is part of the campaign The Netherlands Says Yes † Together with the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the health funds and the Transplantation Nu

Research has shown that in people who claim to have been emotionally abused in childhood, the medial prefrontal cortex, also known as the front part of the brain, is 7.2 percent smaller. It makes no difference whether or not someone has a depression or anxiety disorder sorrow. Gender also has no in

The pill is getting a competitor in the form of… a cream! Thats right, a cream – called Nestorone Estradal – as contraception. According to the brains behind the cream, women only need a little bit of cream . every day rub on the arms, legs, shoulders and abdomen to avoid getting pregnant. The p

More and more patients are able to find a physiotherapist without a referral from their GP. This is apparent from research by the National Information Provision for Paramedical Care (LiPZ) of NIVEL. Physiotherapists have been directly accessible since 2006. In that year, about two in ten customers

This weekend the clocks will go back one hour to the well-known winter time. But did you know that daylight saving time is actually much better for your health? Sticking to daylight saving time provides major health benefits, says British environmentalist Mayer Hillman on the leading site of the Bri

Dutch men put themselves massively in figure-correcting underwear last summer. The need to love handles and hiding beer bellies turned out to be so big that almost the entire stock of the wonder shirts was sold out in a few months. The online webshop Shapewear.nl launched corrective underwear for m

Women who start labor with the obstetrician are more likely to have their baby die than women who start labor under the supervision of a gynaecologist. This is apparent from a large-scale study by UMC Utrecht, which was published in the British Medical Journal. . The chance of infant mortality is h

When you have suffered hunger in the womb due to food scarcity, you are more likely to have high blood sugar later in life. This is not the first time that exposure to hunger . has been linked in the womb and getting chronic conditions like diabetes † But this has not yet been confirmed. Food Sc

The month of November has been declared a real T-time month by the Dutch Heart Foundation for the first time. What does that mean? Well, that we should drink a cup of tea with friends more nicely † According to the Heart Foundation, it can even be vital. With the specially organized tea parties you

People who become infected with HIV sometimes remain healthy for years without medication. Scientists from the American Harvard Medical School have now discovered that this could be due to small variations in one protein. One in three hundred people who have been infected with HIV hardly notices it

Washing your hands regularly is the basic rule to avoid various infections that usually occur during the winter months. However, many people do not know how to wash and dry their hands to really prevent infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) advises everyone to wash hands with soap † Witho

Dutch families want more quality time in the morning, 69 percent of families are even short on time during the week. This is apparent from research by TNS NIPO on behalf of breakfast specialist Kelloggs. The study focused on the morning rituals and breakfast habits of Dutch families. The survey fou

People who sleep short lose less fat on a low-calorie diet than people who sleep longer. This is shown by research by the University of Chicago. For the study, ten men and women with overweight . slept in a sleep center. They did this in two periods of two weeks each. During each phase, subjects fo