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Number of Real Friends Declining
12/10/2011Despite Facebook networks numbering in the hundreds or even thousands. That’s because the average person now has one-third fewer close...
Read MoreThe Nightmare You Don’t Wake From
12/8/2011In the early 1980s, 117 healthy, young immigrants from Laos died in their sleep. What they shared in common was a...
Read MoreMammalian Brain Can Repair Itself
12/6/2011A new study out of Harvard University came to the surprising conclusion that it may indeed be possible to trigger...
Read MoreInterstitial Cystitis, Autoimmune Response
12/4/2011 No one knows what causes interstitial cystitis. Because IC varies so much in symptoms and severity, most researchers believe that...
Read MoreRheumatoid Arthritis and Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis
12/4/2011Seronegative rheumatoid arthritis patients are those patients who have been diagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis but remain rheumatoid factor negative...
Read MoreLet Them Eat Fries: School Lunch Reform Squashed
12/3/2011Congress just voted to block legislation that would make school lunches a whole lot healthier than they now are. The...
Read MoreTired Teens Don’t Make the Best Choices
12/1/2011Research has determined that there is a greater likelihood of dangerous behaviors among those teenagers regularly sleeping less than eight hours...
Read MoreCoffee Can Ward Off Depression
11/29/2011A study, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, found that women who drink four or more cups...
Read MoreAccidental Medication Poisoning
11/26/2011New research has found that poisoning by medication has risen tremendously in young children in the past few years. Visits...
Read MoreConsumers in Diapers
11/22/2011Research now shows that kids already recognize brand logos by six months of age. As soon as they can speak, they request particular...
Read MoreDiet and Cancer, Medical Community
11/19/2011A news release earlier this week from the American Association for Cancer Research reports that new studies show that diet...
Read MoreWhite Produce and Stroke Risk
11/19/2011A recent study has found that those who regularly eat greater quantities of white fruits and vegetables are 52 percent less likely...
Read MoreGenetics and Happiness: Born Happy?
11/17/2011While our environments definitely contribute to our personalities, scientists have proven over the past few years that much of the...
Read MoreiPhone Elicits True Love
11/15/2011Several recent studies show that most iPhone users are smitten with their phones. The phones typically do evoke a true...
Read MoreMen and Binge Eating
11/12/2011Using data compiled from 21,743 men and 24,608 women who took a self-assessment of their health status, the scientists discovered...
Read MoreLow Carb Diet and Coronary Heart Disease
11/10/2011A study released in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that diets lower in carbohydrate and higher in protein...
Read MoreEcosystems of the Gut
11/10/2011The chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is commonly used in much of the plastic manufactured for food containers and in the...
Read MoreScreening Tests Screened Out
11/8/2011It's been a bad month for the lucrative health-screening-test industry. Those of us who have been poked, prodded, scraped, and...
Read MoreUniversal Flu Vaccine on the Horizon?
11/5/2011A team of researchers from England and Switzerland have discovered a "super-antibody" called F16 that appears to disable all of...
Read MoreHealth Insurance Premiums on the Rise
11/3/2011According to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average annual premium for family health insurance coverage in...
Read MorePreschoolers and TV
11/1/2011A recent study by psychologists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville found that even watching just a few minutes...
Read MoreJunk Food May Impair Fertility
10/29/2011A recent study out of the Harvard School of Public Health found that when men eat fatty, unhealthy food, their sperm...
Read MoreMice May Screen You at Airports
10/27/2011In the near future, instead of being subjected to electronic scanners at airports, you may be searched by mice.
Read MoreThe Scoop on Green Tea
10/25/2011Green tea offers health benefits; that much we have known for years. But it seems to be taking a while...
Read MoreTick Parasite in Blood Transfusions
10/22/2011New research has found that there is a tick parasite that has been transmitted through blood transfusions appearing in the...
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