Year: 2011

Earlier this month, Nature Magazine published the results of a study that found that a simple blood test can spot...

Recent research that took place at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, found that women who have more than one...

Reports coming out of Chernobyl 25 years after the nuclear disaster there attest to this fact. In the 1660-square-mile restricted...

A study that took place at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland, found that eating a diet rich in...

A recent study that took place at Children's Hospital Boston found that formula-fed babies who are started on solid food...

Researchers genetically altered mice so they overproduced a stress hormone called "corticotrophin-releasing factor," or "CRF." In reaction to the increased...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have shown that the worse a person's untreated hearing impairment is, the...

Think Aspirin is good for your heart? Maybe not so much. Think the only danger from Aspirin is stomach upset?...

Last year, the American Cancer Society revised its recommendations about prostate cancer screening. They changed from advising men 40 and...

A just-released report by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Disease Clusters Alliance identifies 42 "disease clusters" in...

A new study shows that for the past 30 years we have been eating more foods with added sugar and, correspondingly,...

The latest study on perfluorocarbons (PFCs) has found that greater exposure to them may cause women to begin menopause years...

Members of the American Optometric Association are suggesting that the new Nintendo 3DS may be a helpful tool that can...

A recent study out of Tufts University just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the...

Recent research at the University of California Los Angeles found that taking weekly tai chi classes decreased seniors' incidence of...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center in Minneapolis are trying to use salmonella to attack tumors and...

The journal Radiology this month carried two articles by experts regarding airport scanners-- one defending them and one suggesting that...

New research conducted at Cornell University shows that Facebook can actually improve your self-esteem…possibly. However, it is pretty hard to imagine...

Researchers at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles recently developed a new method of...

Participants in a recent study who regularly drank alcohol had, overall, a 29 percent lower incidence of dementia and a 42...

In the early 2000s, the YAZ® birth control pill hit the American market in a huge advertising blitz claiming that...

A recent study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center found that men who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) on...

Since I first wrote about the nuclear disaster in Japan, many things have changed -- and yet little has changed....

Several EPA studies, including one that concludes that radioactive material from natural gas drilling waste, in fact, does not fully...

There is some degree of risk, no matter how small, that substantial amounts of radiation may leak from one or...