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 According to recent reports made public by a Dutch science lab researching
the effects of smoking, people who smoke are 50 percent more likely to develop
Alzheimer's disease or dementia than people who do not smoke or who givven up smoking.
Researchers announced these results after analyzing seven years of data from
almost 7,000...
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 A new study shows it's very likely that bipolar disorder in children and teens may often be erroneously diagnosed and experts believe some kids have been mislabeled. There has been a fortyfold increase in bipolar diagnostics over the 10 years spanning from 1994 to 2004. The study was published in the September issue of the Archives of...
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 “Popcorn worker’s lung” is a serious disease affecting people who work in microwave popcorn production – and scientists may have discovered its cause.
Diacetyl is a chemical ingredient important in the making of artificial butter flavoring for popcorn. Researchers now say that factory workers inhaling the...
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 A new experiment by biotech company Geron Corp has found that human embryonic stem cells can repair the damaged hearts of rats. The scientists have managed to partially overcome a common problem in stem cell therapy: stem cells usually do not survive when injected into a system, even if they differentiate with success into the needed...
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 A new study from the Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, has found that fish oil, containing Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, has a significant positive effect on patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Omega-3 fatty acids, which can also be found in eggs and linseed, among others, contain eicosapentaenoic acid...
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 Two teams of scientists backed the use of gastric surgery to treat severe obesity, showing that weight loss surgery extended the lifespan of patients who suffer from the condition. Their independent studies were published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.The first study, by Ted D. Adams, Ph.D., M.P.H., and his team,...
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 A group of British neuroscientists found that women like reddish hues, and men blue-green, regardless of their cultural backgrounds. They tested 171 white Britons and 37 recent Chinese immigrants by showing them around 1,000 pairs of colored rectangles. The subjects had to choose the one which they preferred as quickly as...
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 A common virus, which was previously linked with obesity, has been proved in lab tests to transform adult stem cells obtained from fat tissue into fat cells. It's the human adenovirus-36 (Ad-36), which usually causes respiratory and eye infections.Previous research has established that around 30 percent of obese people are infected with...
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 The World Health Organization’s
team of international experts has declared that the outbreak of Marburg disease that hit Uganda some weeks ago has been
eventually contained. Till present, one person has already died because of Marburg fever. The
29-year-old minor affected by the Marburg
disease died on the 14th of July, but hopefully...
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 It seems that food is everything,
meaning that it could represent both people’s tastiest lethal enemy, but also
their savior! The magic is in being aware and understanding that there are two
types of food in this world: noxious food and healthy, helpful food. And it is
not the taste or the brand that makes the difference!
We were...
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