Health
A hypocaloric Mediterranean diet and daily exercise maintain weight loss
Credit: (CC BY-SA 2.0) Nowadays, overweight or obese patients, particularly those with metabolic syndrome, are recommended to lose weight by...
Children’s sleep not significantly affected by screen time, new study finds
Screen-time has little impact on the quality of children's sleep, according to new Oxford University research. Screens are now a...
New study is a smoking gun, shows vaping is no deterrent to teen tobacco use
Kids who experiment with e-cigarettes end up smoking tobacco about as much as teen smokers who never used the devices,...
What can a tau mouse model reveal about the effects of repetitive brain injury?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 5, 2018--Researchers have developed a mouse model expressing the human...
Prejudice against women in power is greater than we think
People are more prejudiced against women leaders than the statistics might indicate. This could be because participants in surveys investigating...
Award for Education in Neuroscience presented to Erik Herzog and Gönül Peker
(Society for Neuroscience) The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award Erik Herzog, PhD, professor of biology at Washington University and...
Proton therapy for pediatric brain tumors has favorable cognitive outcomes
Proton therapy treatment for pediatric brain tumor patients is associated with better neurocognitive outcomes compared to x-ray radiation therapy according...
WEIRD science
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a cluster of five personality traits -- or...
Rutgers researchers advance stem cell therapy with biodegradable scaffold
Credit: KiBum Lee, Letao Yang and Sy-Tsong Dean Chueng. Rutgers scientists have created a tiny, biodegradable scaffold to transplant stem...
Stroke survivors and those at risk urged to focus on yoga and tai chi
Credit: Creative Commons One of Australia's biggest health issues could be checked if more people took up yoga or tai...
Stanford chemists develop a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant infections
With drug-resistant infections on the rise and the development of new antibiotics on the decline, the world could use a...
2018 Eric D. Hadar Distinguished Lecture at Columbia Psychiatry
New York, NY (November 5, 2018) -- This year's Eric D. Hadar Distinguished Lecture at the Columbia University Department of...
Shorter sleep can lead to dehydration
Adults who sleep just six hours per night -- as opposed to eight -- may have a higher chance of...
Youth TBI laws promote head injury evaluation in emergency department
Millions of children and teens are affected by sports and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) annually. To help reduce the...
Sitting is NOT the new smoking, contrary to popular myth
Credit: Creative Commons No, sitting is not the new smoking, despite what countless newspaper articles have peddled in recent years....
Mount Sinai is first to use FDA-approved drug-eluting stent that treats PAD
Credit: Boston Scientific Vascular specialists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are the first in the United...
William Muñoz receives Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience
(Society for Neuroscience) The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to William...
Drinking coffee may reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
TORONTO - Approximately 500 billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide each year. A new study out of the Krembil...
WSU researchers see cognitive changes in offspring of heavy cannabis-using rats
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have seen cognitive changes in the offspring of rats exposed to heavy amounts...
Patients with low risk thyroid cancer can receive lower doses of radiation treatment
Glasgow, UK: Thyroid cancer patients whose disease is at low risk of returning can be treated safely with a smaller...
