Lifestyle choices keep health all in the mind
Physical activity and being a volunteer assist mental wellbeing, a new ACT research report has found.
View ArticleInfant formula can be a major source of BPA: experts
(HealthDay) -- When Hacah Boros gave birth to her daughter three years ago, giving her infant formula was "completely out of the question," said the 35-year-old nurse from central Connecticut.
View ArticleStudies show women find men more attractive if they hold a guitar
(Medical Xpress)—Two independent studies have found that women find men more attractive if they are holding a guitar. The first one, conducted by researchers in France was based on a young man asking...
View ArticleVolunteering reduces risk of hypertension in older adults, research shows
It turns out that helping others can also help you protect yourself from high blood pressure.
View ArticleUsing targeted brain stimulation to change attention patterns for anxious...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a painless treatment strategy that uses weak electrical currents to deliver targeted stimulation to the brain via electrodes placed on the scalp. tDCS...
View ArticleTwo leading Ebola vaccines appear safe, further tests starting (Update)
The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West Africa.
View ArticleBritish Ebola nurse 'no longer critical'
A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working as a volunteer in Sierra Leone is "no longer critically ill", the London hospital treating her said Monday.
View ArticleHigh hepatitis C cure rate seen in NIH-led trial of six-week oral drug regimens
Thirty-eight of 40 volunteers with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections who received a combination of three direct-acting oral drugs for six weeks were cured in a clinical trial conducted at the National...
View ArticleResearchers use closed-loop feedback from the brain to improve attention...
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Princeton University has found a way to improve the attention span of volunteers in a study. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the...
View ArticlePitt expert talks about teenage brain development at AAAS Annual Meeting
Teenage exploration and risk taking could be explained by dramatic changes in the brain that allow elaborate planning and are driven by the need for immediate reward, according to a University of...
View ArticleModerate hypoglycemia impacts language processing
(HealthDay)—Moderate hypoglycemia is associated with deterioration in language processing in adults with and without type 1 diabetes, according to a study published online March 10 in Diabetes Care.
View ArticleExperimental Ebola vaccine appears safe, prompts immune response
An early-stage clinical trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) found that the vaccine, called...
View ArticlePotential chemoresistance after consuming fatty acid in fish, fish oil
Researchers found that consuming the fish herring and mackerel, as well as three kinds of fish oils, raised blood levels of the fatty acid 16:4(n-3), which experiments in mice suggest may induce...
View ArticleStudy shows link between teen impatience and neural development in the brain
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with members from the U.S. and Germany has found a connection between neural development in one part of the brain and teen impatience. In their paper published in...
View ArticleSerious adverse events rare in healthy volunteers participating in Phase I...
Many people believe that phase I trials with healthy volunteers are very risky and because they pose risks with no benefits, unethical. But how risky are such trials? Less than 1% of 11,000 healthy...
View ArticleScientists scan the brain to see how stress undermines your diet
If you're trying to lose weight, kick off your diet by relaxing. Stress tinkers with your brain chemistry in ways that make it hard to make healthful food choices and maintain self-control, a new study...
View ArticleTesting new therapies to effectively combat anaemia
Early clinical trials of an innovative new therapeutic protein could one day lead to better treatment for anaemia of chronic disease patients.
View ArticleWhich little piggy is it?
Do you know where each of your toes are? This may seem a bizarre question, but a surprising study Monday suggests you may not.
View ArticleScientists find evidence of how incurable cancer develops
Researchers in the West Midlands have made a breakthrough in explaining how an incurable type of blood cancer develops from an often symptomless prior blood disorder. The findings could lead to more...
View ArticleOnline porn may feed sex addicts' desire for new sexual images, study shows
People who show compulsive sexual behaviour – sex addiction – are driven to search more for new sexual images than their peers, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge. The...
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