Warding 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 MoreE. Coli Outbreak
6/13/2011E. coli is back in the news and once again causing hysteria beyond its actual threat. Yes, this latest outbreak...
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 MoreAlternative Medicine is Valid
5/30/2011The May 19th issue of The Economist ran TWO stories debunking alternative medicine. The first story carried a subheading that read,...
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...
Read MoreThe Powers of Regenerative Medicine
5/19/2011The field of regenerative medicine is booming, and that has the potential to create advancements most of us would never...
Read MoreForeign Accent Syndrome
5/17/2011Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) affects less than 100 people worldwide, but even so, it's disturbing enough to those who have...
Read MoreThe Paleo Diet
5/16/2011Diets come, and diets go. And like fashion, if you wait long enough, what is now out will eventually return...
Read MoreCrib Dangers
5/14/2011According to a new study at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio,...
Read MoreStrokes on the Rise in the Young
5/12/2011A new study conducted at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found that the rate of strokes in children...
Read MoreAre Ethics on the Decline?
5/10/2011Are kids today more self-centered than in past generations? Researchers at MSNBC asked more than 10,000 readers that question, and...
Read MoreCell Phones and Your Brain
5/7/2011A new study has proven unequivocally that the radiation emitted from cell phone antennas alters our brain activity. While these effects...
Read MoreScary HPV Statistics
5/5/2011A new study has shown that approximately half of all adult men are infected with HPV. The participants were residents of...
Read MoreCursing Kills Pain Redux
5/3/2011A few years ago about a study demonstrated that yelling swear words when experiencing pain can actually help the sensation of pain...
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