By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) – Seniors with nighttime breathing issues like snoring or sleep apnea often have high blood sugar and may be almost twice as likely as sound sleepers to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Findings from some 6,000 U.S. adults who were followed for up to 10 years suggest that doctors may want to monitor blood sugar in older patients with sleep-disordered breathing,
Roche’s big new drug hope ocrelizumab cut multiple sclerosis relapses by nearly 50 percent compared with the older product Rebif in two large clinical trials, underscoring its potential in the main relapsing form of the disease. Ocrelizumab also cut clinical disability by nearly a quarter in a separate study of patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS), which affects around 15 percent of patients and for which there is currently
Two greats of the game – Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – play in the China Open quarter-finals on Friday, live on Sky Sports.
Sky Sports Fantasy Football have provided us with their highest-scoring England XI, which includes just four of Roy Hodgson’s regular starters.
The Sunday Supplement is back again, as our panel of journalists dissect the week’s big football talking points.
Rhys Webb believes that the selection of Sam Warburton and Justin Tipuric will silence the Wallaby back row.
Alex Hammond answers the five big questions ahead of the weekend’s action.
By Lisa Van Allen If there’s one quintessential American ghost story, a good case could be made for Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Never mind how the original Headless Horseman story has morphed over the years from cute and spooky into occult and gory—as in Fox’s series Sleepy Hollow. The story is as integral as any to Halloween, so there’s no better place to celebrate the holiday than
For some, the start of fall means that it’s officially pumpkin spice latte season, but there are other ways to enjoy everyone’s favorite gourd. This time of the year, you can find pumpkins for sale everywhere from city markets to roadside stands, but why not make a day of it? Across the country, farms are celebrating the season with family-friendly festivals where you’ll find all the pumpkins, freshly baked desserts, and
Sometimes you come across a video game mashup so perfect it makes you question why anyone let Mario and Sonic compete in the Olympic Games. Pokémon Sims is an example of a game we’d like to play – the chocolate and peanut butter of video games. It comes from the brain of YouTuber Hat-Loving Gamer (thanks Kotaku) and mixes the graphic style of the older Pokémon games with the gameplay
