Hospital Overuse of CT Scans
7/16/2011New research has found that it is a regularly occurring practice at hundreds of hospitals to allow chest CT scans,...
Read MoreThe Rap on Food Wraps
7/14/2011While plastic wrap doesn’t usually contain BPA, it typically contains the carcinogen chlorine plusa substance called DEHA, which acts as an...
Read MoreDrug-Related Suicide Attempts in Men
7/12/2011A new study has determined that there was a 55 percent increase in emergency room hospital visits for prescription drug-related...
Read MoreRadioactive Water Cleanup In Japan
7/9/2011The Fukushima Daiichi plant that was so badly damaged is now beleaguered by a tremendous amount of dangerously radioactive water....
Read MoreBotox Dulls Empathy
7/7/2011A new study has found Botox reduces the ability to empathize. The reason is that in order to interpret the emotions others...
Read MoreTeenagers, Depression, and Music
7/5/2011According to new research, the more time teens spend listening to music, the more likely they are to be depressed. Although...
Read MoreEcosystems of the Gut
7/2/2011A new study on bisphenol A (BPA) has "surprisingly" found that after we have eaten foods containing BPA, it is...
Read MoreThe Latest on Cooking Oil
6/30/2011A new study shows that people who use lots of olive oil, even in cooking, have a considerably lower stroke...
Read MoreSave Your Self-Control
6/28/2011New research is suggesting that, in fact, we may all have a limited supply of self-control. When you exert a...
Read MoreCoffee Cuts Lethal Prostate Cancer
6/25/2011A study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston showed that regularly consuming six or more cups...
Read MoreHeart Disease in Children
6/23/2011We all fret about the obesity epidemic among children as well as adults today. But few of us worry about...
Read MoreWarding Off Dementia
6/21/2011In a study conducted at Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, researchers found that regular social interactions can keep dementia...
Read MoreScientists Remove Traumatic Memories
6/18/2011According to an article in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers recently removed memory from a primitive snail called Aplysia, as...
Read MoreYour Brain’s Asleep
6/16/2011A recent study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown that groups of neurons in the brain may actually go...
Read MoreHerpes Can Spread Silently
6/14/2011A new study, just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that even people who have no...
Read MoreBaby Product Alert
6/11/2011The chemicals used as flame retardants have long been known to be dangerous, most likely even cancer causing. Back in...
Read MoreThe Asthma Epidemic
6/9/2011The number of asthma sufferers in the United States is on the rise, hitting unprecedented levels, according to research at...
Read MoreGenes and Depression, Again
6/7/2011New research, reviewing 54 previous studies, concludes that, in fact, there is a depression gene after all. An article published...
Read MoreTeens and Alcohol Don’t Mix
6/4/2011There is a recent study, which took place at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, that found that the teenagers who...
Read MoreLiposuction and the Return of Fat
6/2/2011A new study at the University of Colorado in Aurora has found that liposuction is not permanent. One year post-surgery, for...
Read MoreNatural Immunity and AIDS
5/31/2011Scientists at the University of California San Francisco and the University of California Los Angeles have combined natural immunity with...
Read MoreFriendship Leads to Longer Life
5/28/2011Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel recently reported that after following 820 adults over a 20-year period, it became...
Read MoreThe Health Risks of Loneliness
5/26/2011A recent study at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, found that people who are lonely are more disposed to...
Read MorePuberty Keeps Getting Earlier
5/24/2011According to a study published in Pediatrics in 2010, 15 percent of American girls now reach puberty by age seven....
Read MoreExercise and Your Memory
5/21/2011Aerobic exercise can not only help you lose weight in all the right places but also gain something in one...
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