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Coffee’s Stroke Protection
4/30/2011Recent research that took place at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, found that women who have more than one...
Read MoreRadiation Causes Plant & Animal Mutations
4/28/2011Reports coming out of Chernobyl 25 years after the nuclear disaster there attest to this fact. In the 1660-square-mile restricted...
Read MoreMore Fiber Benefits
4/26/2011A study that took place at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland, found that eating a diet rich in...
Read MoreBabies and Obesity
4/23/2011A recent study that took place at Children's Hospital Boston found that formula-fed babies who are started on solid food...
Read MoreOf Mice and Men…and Baldness
4/21/2011Researchers genetically altered mice so they overproduced a stress hormone called "corticotrophin-releasing factor," or "CRF." In reaction to the increased...
Read MoreHearing Impairment and Dementia
4/19/2011Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have shown that the worse a person's untreated hearing impairment is, the...
Read MorePass on Prostate Cancer Screening
4/16/2011Last year, the American Cancer Society revised its recommendations about prostate cancer screening. They changed from advising men 40 and...
Read MoreDisease Clusters Exposed
4/14/2011A just-released report by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Disease Clusters Alliance identifies 42 "disease clusters" in...
Read MoreAdded Sugar = Added Pounds
4/12/2011A new study shows that for the past 30 years we have been eating more foods with added sugar and, correspondingly,...
Read MoreThe PFC-Menopause Link
4/9/2011The latest study on perfluorocarbons (PFCs) has found that greater exposure to them may cause women to begin menopause years...
Read MoreVideo Games as Vision Tool?
4/7/2011Members of the American Optometric Association are suggesting that the new Nintendo 3DS may be a helpful tool that can...
Read MoreSex, Exercise, and Heart Attacks
4/5/2011A recent study out of Tufts University just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the...
Read MoreTai Chi for Depression
4/2/2011Recent research at the University of California Los Angeles found that taking weekly tai chi classes decreased seniors' incidence of...
Read MoreFighting Cancer with Salmonella
3/31/2011Researchers at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center in Minneapolis are trying to use salmonella to attack tumors and...
Read MoreFull-Body Airport Scanners
3/29/2011The journal Radiology this month carried two articles by experts regarding airport scanners-- one defending them and one suggesting that...
Read MoreFacebook’s Effects on Self-Esteem
3/26/2011New research conducted at Cornell University shows that Facebook can actually improve your self-esteem…possibly. However, it is pretty hard to imagine...
Read MoreBAI, Better Body Measurements
3/24/2011Researchers at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles recently developed a new method of...
Read MoreA Drink a Day May Keep Dementia Away
3/22/2011Participants in a recent study who regularly drank alcohol had, overall, a 29 percent lower incidence of dementia and a 42...
Read MoreErectile Dysfunction and NSAIDs
3/19/2011A recent study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center found that men who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) on...
Read MoreTainted Tap Water from Drilling
3/17/2011Several EPA studies, including one that concludes that radioactive material from natural gas drilling waste, in fact, does not fully...
Read MoreEgg Improvements
3/15/2011The USDA regularly has nutrition checks performed on common foods, and the egg has made changes for the better. Since...
Read MoreSelf-Control Breeds Success
3/12/2011According to a new study at Duke University in Raleigh, North Carolina, children who display more self-control in their younger...
Read MoreReal Life Contact with Humans on the Wane
3/10/2011A UK study has found a 40 percent increase in men who no longer want to have sex with their...
Read MoreMusic to More than the Ears
3/8/2011A recent study from scientists at McGill University in Montreal, Canada shows that music affects the brain chemistry the same...
Read MoreLess Invasive Breast Cancer Treatment
3/5/2011Research out of the John Wayne Cancer Institute has shown that for women who are in the early stages of breast cancer and where...
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