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Excessive cola consumption can lead to super-sized muscle problems warn doctors

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 7

Doctors have issued a warning about excessive cola consumption after noticing an increase in the number of patients suffering from muscle problems, according to the June issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Pr ...


New pattern in our biological clock overturns long-held theory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns ...


Search for blood pressure secrets reveals a surprising new syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a lack of coordination, developmental delay and hearing loss.


Your arteries on Wonder bread

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Doctors have known for decades that foods like white bread and corn flakes aren't good for cardiac health. In a landmark study, new research from Tel Aviv University now shows exactly how these high carb foods increase the ...


A major breakthrough in generating safer, therapeutic stem cells from adult cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

The new technique solves one of the most challenging safety hurdles associated with personalized stem cell-based medicine because for the first time it enables scientists to make stem cells in the laboratory from adult cells ...


Research finds kava is safe and effective

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ research has found a traditional extract of kava, a medicinal plant from the South Pacific, to be safe and effective in reducing anxiety.


Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice

Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup. When aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were given caffeine - the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day - their memory ...


Roadsides, contaminated fields could be unlikely solutions to fuel shortages, water pollution

Roadsides, contaminated fields could be unlikely solutions to fuel shortages, water pollution

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The lonely, weed-choked roadsides along America's highways may turn out to be an unexpected solution to two of the biggest issues facing the U.S. today -- potential fuel shortages and water ...


Second-hand smoke linked to cognitive impairment

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 4

The research, published today in the British Medical Journal, highlighted a 44% increase in risk of cognitive impairment when exposed to high levels of second-hand smoke.


'Top dogs' at school have better health in adulthood

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Children who are the most popular and powerful at school also enjoy better health in adult life compared to counterparts at the bottom end of the pecking order, said a Swedish study published Tuesday.


Multiple health concerns surface as winter, vitamin D deficiences arrive

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 3

A string of recent discoveries about the multiple health benefits of vitamin D has renewed interest in this multi-purpose nutrient, increased awareness of the huge numbers of people who are deficient in it, spurred research ...


Insurers shun those taking certain meds and secretly keep blacklist

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Trying to buy health insurance on your own and have gallstones? You'll automatically be denied coverage. Rheumatoid arthritis? Automatic denial. Severe acne? Probably denied. Do you take Metformin, a popular drug for diabetes? ...


The new 'epigenetics:' Poor nutrition in the womb causes permanent genetic changes in the offspring

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The new science of epigenetics explains how genes can be modified by the environment, and a prime result of epigenetic inquiry has just been published online in The FASEB Journal: You are what your mother did not eat during ...


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New robots help humans cope with illness

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world's biggest annual gatherings ...


Research suggests we are genetically programmed to care about climate change

Biology / Evolution

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (13) | comments 8

Humans may be programmed by evolution to care about the future of the environment, suggests research published today.