While the wooly musk ox may like it cold, fruit flies definitely do not. They like it hot, or at least warm. In fact, their preferred optimum temperature is very similar to that of humans - 76 degrees F. Scientists have known that a type of brain cell circuit helps regulate a variety of innate...
Smoking can cut ten years off your life span, or so goes one of the most popular statistics used to encourage smokers to give up cigarettes. But a new study says that one of the effects of quitting smoking by … More »
Study Says Quitting Smoking By 40 Live As Long As Non-Smokers (But You Should...
It's tempting to laugh at the conclusion of a new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which basically amounts to: Reading food labels is hard, y'all. But reading food labels is hard ... More »
FDA Study Confirms What We All Know: Food Labels Confuse The Bejeezus Out Of People is a...
Analysis of 2 Years of Additional Data on Dutasteride Treatment Reported in The Journal of Urology® The four-year REDUCE (REduction by DUtasteride of prostate Cancer Events) clinical study evaluated prostate cancer risk reduction in men taking dutasteride, a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor (5ARI)...
I studied for a quiz and got a 60 which is an F and you can get an 100 which is an A what I don't get is I studied for it and the other people in my group got an A or a B and they didn't study it just makes me so mad
Binge drinking is usually associated with men, but a new study says that one in eight women engages in this type of alcohol abuse. And--surprise, surprise--the problem is magnified by the fact that we think men are the binge drinkers; not women. More »
Lay Off The Liquor, Ladies: New Study Says...
Bigger brains can make animals, well, brainier, but that boost in brain size and ability comes at a price. That's according to new evidence reported on January 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, in which researchers artificially selected guppies for large and small brain sizes...
Fibromyalgia is a complex illness to diagnose and to treat. There is not yet a diagnostic test to establish that someone has it, there is no cure and many fibromyalgia symptoms - pain, fatigue, problems sleeping and memory and mood issues - can overlap with or get mistaken for other conditions...
After a cautious and rigorous analysis of national malpractice claims, Johns Hopkins patient safety researchers estimate that a surgeon in the United States leaves a foreign object such as a sponge or a towel inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week, performs the wrong...
Most people are impressed by how a toad jumps. UC Irvine biologist Emanuel Azizi is more impressed by how one lands. An assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology who specializes in muscle physiology and biomechanics, Azizi found that nature's favorite leapers possess a neuromuscular...
...dumb and dumber? If you never heard of it then check it out.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/13/dumb-and-dumber-study-says-humans-are-slowly-losing-their-smarts
Now there is evidence out there that our brains have actually been shrinking ever since the bronze age...
A research team led by scientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida have decoded the entire pathway that regulates leakiness of blood vessels - a condition that promotes a wide number of disorders, such as heart disease, cancer growth and spread, inflammation and respiratory distress. They say their...
If you are at risk for colon cancer, a new study has provided some interesting and important information: You can lower your risk of getting this disease by avoiding certain foods. Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands evaluated 486 people with Lynch syndrome--a genetic...
Multiple myeloma is a type of leukaemia which affects B lymphocytes. There have been some indications that exposure to pesticides or chlorinated solvents increases the risk of developing this cancer. New research published in Biomed Central's open access journal Journal of Occupational Medicine...
New positive Phase II results from an interim analysis of the randomised Phase I/II study involving the company's investigational haematology/oncology compound volasertib* in newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) considered ineligible for intensive remission induction...
Researchers conducting a preclinical study in mice successfully used targeted molecular therapy to block mostly untreatable nerve tumors that develop in people with the genetic disorder Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1). Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report their...
A new study confirms that the decades-long practice of talk therapy does, in fact, ease depression. But what at first seems like a pretty obvious research finding is surprisingly revealing: The premise of the study isn't just to ask "does therapy work?"–it's mostly to uncover the best cure for...
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS) - a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This discovery offers new hope for the millions who...
By linking 15 new genetic regions to coronary artery disease, a large international study sheds new light on the underlying causes of this most common form of heart disease, which results from the build up of fatty material or plaque on the insides of the blood vessels of the heart. One...
A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has shown for the first time how cancer cells control the ON/OFF switch of a program used by developing embryos to effectively metastasize in vivo, breaking free and spreading to other parts...