Does wisdom come with age? Scientists found older people are often happier.Credit: © mr_rusty/ Flickr
While even the best wines eventually peak and turn to vinegar, a new study by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine...
More than 100 million people worldwide take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as Prozac and Zoloft, to treat depression, anxiety and related conditions, but these drugs have a common and mysterious side effect: they can worsen anxiety in...
Why do some people want to live a very long time, while others would prefer to die relatively young? In a latest study, a team of researchers including Vegard Skirbekk, PhD, at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center,...
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Simple changes in how we cook could go a long way towards preventing diabetes, say researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A new randomized controlled trial, published online July 29 in the journal Diabetologia,...
For people with weight problems, news headlines in recent years may have brought relief, as researchers studying the microscopic creatures inside our bodies reported possible links between obesity and an out-of-whack balance of microbes.
But a new study, done by...
A recent study published by Brazilian researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Institute for Research Professor Amorim Neto (IPESQ), alongside Tel Aviv University and the Boston Children's Hospital...
In a landmark Texas A&M study, desks that encourage elementary school-age children to stand during class are shown to cut down on obesity and lower (Body Mass Index) BMI trajectory. (Photo: Texas A&M University Health Science Center)
Texas A&M researchers...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm develop less frequently in rats that drank green tea polyphenol, says new research by a Kyoto University team. Without treatment, abdominal aortic aneurysms eventually rupture and lead to death 50 percent of the time.Credit: Kyoto University
Japan's...
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Researchers from the Universities of Groningen (Netherlands) and Pennsylvania have discovered a piece in the puzzle of how sleep deprivation negatively affects memory.
For the first time, a study in mice, to be published in the journal eLife, shows...
In a landmark discovery, researchers at Tel Aviv University have unraveled the metastatic mechanism of melanoma, the most aggressive of all skin cancers.
According to a paper published today in the journal Nature Cell Biology, the scientists discovered that before...
We are more susceptible to infection at certain times of the day as our body clock affects the ability of viruses to replicate and spread between cells, suggests new research. Credit: © alextheshutter / Flickr
We are more susceptible to...
