Year: 2009

A new study out of the Boston University School of Medicine has confirmed that cockroaches are the leading cause of...

The American Psychiatric Association has been exploring the idea of including a category for Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) in the...

A new study has found that while teens who have chosen to become vegetarians do in fact weigh less and...

A study out of the University of Minnesota Medical School administered the drug Naltrexone to 25 kleptomaniacs between the ages...

Kudos to the medical establishment in honor of the things they are finally getting right. If only they could go...

One of the problems with swine flu is that virtually no one alive today has any resistance -- thus one...

A huge, international study has determined that babies who take acetaminophen have a greatly increased risk of developing childhood asthma,...

A number of studies over the years have examined the relationship of weather to mood, usually finding that sunshine imparts...

Now that DDT no longer is legal and with the increase in international travel, bedbugs have enjoyed a resurgence, thriving...

Researchers found that animals already infected with the diseases recovered as effectively and quickly on probiotics as they would have...

Getting a promotion leads to an average 10 percent decline in mental-health functioning as measured by standardized GHQ (Generalized Health...

Caffeine in almost any amount puts pregnant mothers at risk for giving birth to low-weight babies, however, for athletes it...

Until the alternative health community learns to stop focusing exclusively on "big picture" issues such as Codex and Congressional bills...

New research has found that the heart muscle regenerates at the rate of about 1% a year in early adulthood,...

A new study shows that crustaceans - lobsters, crabs, shrimp and prawns - do indeed feel pain. Even more, their...

A new study from the National Institutes for Health and the AARP showed that eating the equivalent of a small...

A research team out of the University of Manitoba fed small amounts of yellow pea protein to rats, and the...

According to a study just published in the British Medical Journal, drinking hot tea increases your risk for esophageal cancer...

The bill contains some potentially helpful rules around reporting and containing contaminants, cleaning up production facilities, and regulating edible imports...

Is caffeine saint or sinner, miracle drug or prenatal nightmare? In truth, it's all of the above. The devil, as...

Recent studies show that bullies, in addition to lack of control, experience a pleasure response in reaction to witnessing pain....

Scientists out of Duke University announced that a new treatment for peanut allergies may be imminent, by building up immunity...

While a vegetarian diet beats a meat diet in nearly all studies and by almost all measures -- not all...

Scientists have found a new treatment for the flu that works against nine different strains of influenza, including the dread...

According to a report, issued by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC), over 80 percent of the baby products they...