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Monstrous Energy – Soft Drinks and Fights

19/08/2013

'Children who drank 4 or more soft drinks per day were more than twice as likely to destroy things' ...

The Killer Bean. Coffee Mortality

18/08/2013

Too much coffee will kill you. Not enough and you'll feel like you're dead anyway....

Mediterranean Diet also Prevents Strokes

14/08/2013

Already known for preventing heart disease, the Mediterranean diet is now shown to prevent strokes....

Green Tea Protest Lemonade

13/08/2013

Drink the green, clean your pipes, cool yourself off and beat back the military-industrial complex in one fell swoop with Trebuchet's Green Tea Lemonade....

Avoiding Brain-Damaged Cheerleaders

11/08/2013

neurocognitive assessment could be a useful tool to evaluate when cheerleaders with concussion have returned to normalized baseline measures...

How to Achieve a Well-Balanced Gut

10/08/2013

Healthy bio-flow. Or how to have good poos. In the absence of kale-shakes, Trebuchet news reports....

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn

07/08/2013

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn. Now a scientific possibility. Question is, should we?...

Food Tastes Better with Rituals

26/07/2013

Experiments to investigate how ritualistic behaviors might influence our perception and consumption of various foods...

Love Drug’s a Dud

23/07/2013

Oxytocin appears to be the reason stressful social situations reverberate long past the event...

So Much For Antioxidants

22/07/2013

So, it's a choice between exercise and vegetables then? Bring the pies....

Rebuilding Ears with Mutant Mouse Research

21/07/2013

New research, based on the study of mutant mice, leads to breakthrough in human hearing rehabilitation...

Break a habit – Live Longer

20/07/2013

People who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit – regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is....

South Asians Need More Exercise…

07/07/2013

South Asians (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) may have to exercise more than white Europeans to achieve the same levels of fitness and reduce their risk of diabetes....

Compartment Syndrome

03/07/2013

Compartment Syndrome: A young, healthy man injured himself so severely while weight lifting that he required surgery and nearly a full week in the hospital to recover...

Less Sleep Makes You Fat

01/07/2013

Chronic sleep restriction among adults with late bedtimes may be associated with weight gain due to the consumption of extra calories during late-night hours....

Coenzyme Q10 is really good for you.

29/06/2013

Coenzyme Q10 decreases all cause mortality by half in randomized double blind trial...

Hospital Deaths Occur Near Weekends

24/06/2013

Patients undergoing planned surgery appear more likely to die if they have their operation at the end of the week. Can we stop hospital deaths ? ...

Laziest Exercise Regime Ever

21/06/2013

12 minutes of a high-intensity exercise regime resulted in statistically significant improvements in fitness....

Scabs inspire healthy

20/06/2013

Human scabs have become the model for development of an advanced wound dressing material that shows promise for speeding the healing process...

Magnetic Nanoparticles

15/06/2013

New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that with magnetic guidance, specially designed magnetic nanoparticles can help deliver genes to injured arteries, using stents as the delivery platform...

Catching HIV

14/06/2013

Public health officials in New York City have launched a successful program to locate HIV -positive patients and reconnect them with treatment service....

Minority Drinks

13/06/2013

African-American and Latino children may be replacing soda with 100 percent fruit juice while their white peers are not. Minority Drinks are Sweet apparently. ...

Brain makes Valium

08/06/2013

Researchers have found that a naturally occurring protein secreted only in discrete areas of the mammalian brain may act as a Valium-like brake on certain types of epileptic seizures....

THC good for Brain Damage

07/06/2013

Extremely low doses of marijuana's psychoactive component ( THC ) protect brain before and after injury...

Mars Attacks

03/06/2013

Exposure to radiation has long been known to be a problem for participants in deep space missions - how much risk is there going to Mars...

Sleepless restless

26/05/2013

"We may have solved the mystery of why getting rid of sleepless patients' urge to move their legs doesn't improve their sleep," Prof Allen says....

Food Comas and Fast Food

20/05/2013

Food Coma : Eating more fat may increase daytime sleepiness in healthy, non-obese adults, while eating more a specific food type may increase alertness....