If you’re happy and you know it… you’re probably old!
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 19 06
In what will be of a great comfort to the senior members of the community the idea that the young are the most likely…
Scientists cracking virus protection shield
• Public Health • Jun 19 06
Ebola, measles and rabies are serious threats to public health in developing countries.
Despite different symptoms all of the diseases are caused by the…
Chocolate set to conquer the heath-food market
• Food & Nutrition • Jun 19 06
The ancient Mayan and Aztec people believed that chocolate increased wisdom, energy, vitality, and sexual power, but in the intervening centuries it has been…
Helping Children Handle Stress, Emotions May Help Stuttering
• Children's Health • Jun 19 06
Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to…
Better understanding of olfactory system
• Brain • Jun 19 06
Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered how the brain creates a scent symphony from signals sent by the nose.
In studies in mice,…
Who is to blame for the measles epidemic in Britain?
• Infections • Jun 19 06
Health officials in Britain say the country is in the grip of the worst outbreak of measles and have blamed the 20-year high on…
Experts descend on Jakarta to sort out bird flu outbreaks
• Flu • Jun 19 06
An international team of experts are meeting in Jakarta this week to assess the avian flu situation in Indonesia.
Experts from the World Health…
Bird Flu Preparations Earn Special Review
• Flu • Jun 19 06
Amid a climate of worldwide attentiveness to avian influenza, a disease that’s resulted in the slaughter of millions of birds and the deaths of…
Maine begins testing wild birds for avian flu
• Flu • Jun 19 06
Maine, the closest U.S. state to migration routes for birds coming from Europe, has begun testing for avian flu as the United States steps…
Link between child abuse and schizophrenia proposed
• Children's Health • Jun 19 06
There is strong evidence to support the theory that child abuse can cause schizophrenia, two researchers argued at medical conferences in London and Madrid…
Children in Large Families May Get Smaller Share of Health Care
• Children's Health • Jun 17 06
Children living with many siblings or with adults in addition to their parents visit the doctor less often and use fewer prescriptions than children…
Obesity tied to hepatitis C treatment failure
• Infections • Jun 17 06
Obese patients who are treated for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are more likely to have a better outcome if the underlying abnormalities…
More women than men are working weekends
• Public Health • Jun 15 06
More women than men are working weekends new research from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University shows.
Nearly 20 percent of Canadians…
Broca’s area and the hierarchical organization of human behavior
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 15 06
Researchers have discovered that Broca’s area in the brain - best known as the region that evolved to manage speech production - is a…
Pesticide Use Increases Risk of Parkinson’s in Men
• Neurology • Jun 15 06
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that using pesticides for farming or other purposes increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease for men. Pesticide exposure…
Scientists watch the behavior of a single gene in real time
• Genetics • Jun 15 06
Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have observed for the first time that gene expression can occur in the…
World’s tallest woman starts treatment in Shanghai
• Endocrinology • Jun 15 06
Yao Defen, believed to be the world’s tallest woman, has begun treatment in a Shanghai hospital to rid her of a brain tumor, which…
Pneumonic plague in the Congo
• Infections • Jun 15 06
As of 13 June 2006, World Health Organization (WHO) has received reports of 100 deaths of suspected pneumonic plague, including 19 deaths in Ituri…
Forteo not cost-effective as first osteoporosis drug
• Drug News • Jun 15 06
Postmenopausal women with severe osteoporosis, a condition that makes bones porous and more likely to break, Forteo (teriparatide), the first in a new class…
Most believe myth that aging brings unhappiness
• Public Health • Jun 15 06
People believe happiness declines with age, new research shows, even though numerous studies have demonstrated that we actually get happier as we get older.
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Calorie Restriction May Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
• Neurology • Jun 14 06
A recent study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggests that experimental dietary regimens might calm or even reverse symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease…
Vaccine to treat Alzheimer’s effective and safe
• Neurology • Jun 14 06
According to researchers in Japan they have developed a DNA vaccine that reduces the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice without causing side-effects.
Alzheimer’s…
USAID announces $5 Million award to track bird flu
• Flu • Jun 14 06
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a $5 million award to support the development of a global network to track avian influenza,…
Study shows taste for meat and fish inherited
• Children's Health • Jun 14 06
Children inherit their taste for meat and fish, but when it comes to vegetables and desserts it’s more nurture than nature, according to a…
Hospitals, dirty hands and the risk of disease
• Public Health • Jun 14 06
Thousands of patients in hospitals each year are at risk of potentially fatal infections because health care workers do not wash their hands on…