People who drink coffee live longer, new research suggests. Credit: © iko / Fotolia Here's another reason to start the day with a cup of joe: Scientists have found that people who drink coffee appear to live longer. Drinking coffee was...
There is heightened concern that exercise deficits are contributing to the growing obesity epidemic, particularly among children and teens. Credit: © rodjulian / Fotolia Physical activity among children and teens is lower than previously thought, and, in another surprise finding, young...
It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for the day. Credit: Jeff Grabmeier It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for...
Two billion children breathe toxic air worldwide, UNICEF says. Image Credit: Flickr/leniners Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution – six or more times higher...
The vegetarian diet was found to be almost twice as effective in reducing body weight than the conventional diet. Credit: © Feng Yu / Fotolia Dieters who go vegetarian not only lose weight more effectively than those on conventional low-calorie diets...
Herbert “Skip” Virgin IV, MD, PhD, talks with postdoctoral researcher Dale Balce, PhD. Virgin led a study linking intestinal viruses to the development of Type 1 diabetes. The study showed that children who carried a specific virus belonging to...
Network of synthetic-lethal interactions connecting commonly mutated genes to potential drug targets. Credit: UC San Diego Health Genetic mutations that cause cancer also weaken cancer cells, creating an opportunity for researchers to develop drugs that will selectively kill them, while sparing...
Researchers gave 17 individuals auditory memory tasks that required them to recognize a pattern of tones when it was reversed, while being recorded on MEG and EEG. Credit: Philippe Albouy The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds,...
Verena Schuenemann at the Palaeogenetics Laboratory, University of Tuebingen. Credit: Johannes Krause An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and...
An experimental vaccine against malaria known as Mosquirix—or RTS,S—weakens over time and is only about four percent effective over a seven-year span, researchers said Wednesday. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, are based on a phase...
Heart failure in the elderly is set to triple by 2060, according to new data from the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility (AGES) -- Reykjavík study presented at ESC Congress 2016 today. "Heart failure is a common condition worldwide and increases with...