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 A big belly has been always linked with increased risk for heart diseases and diabetes, but a new study showed that a fat belly also increases the risk for early death. The study was one of the largest and longest health studies in the world and tracked 360,000 Europeans. The researchers found out that the people with big bellies have a...
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 The doctors from the University of Arizona were offered $44 million for the next six years if they participate in a study based on children’s health. Many investigators believe that this new study will provide serious information about the causes of childhood diseases. The study is a part of the National Children’s Study led by the...
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 Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are two supplements used to treat arthritis and joint pain. Still, recent studies have shown that these two popular drugs don’t work properly or don’t do enough to cure neither arthritis, nor joint pain. But the researchers added that their study needed to be revised as some findings were confusing.Dr....
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 More and more teenagers start to smoke. Some of them find it enjoyable and some don’t want to try a second time. Scientists have discovered that the people who have enjoyed smoking from their first puff have something related to a variant gene. These are the people who were likely to become the regular smokers.Scientists from the...
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 According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the original Pave 100 study had planned to enlist 8,500 volunteers in the US, South America, the Caribbean and Africa. The most important aims of the study were to determine if the vaccine prevented HIV-1 infection and if vaccination leads to the decreased viral load...
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 Just as the benefits of marijuana are taken into
consideration these days, a study published online this week in the Journal of
Psychopharmacology points to the medical use of “magic” mushrooms.
Researchers at the Johns
Hopkins University
in Maryland
discovered that the feelings of well-being and optimism brought by...
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A US-Swiss team of researchers have determined the amazing
influence that brain training games have upon one’s intelligence. They reached
the conclusion that all persons, regardless if mentally resourceful or not, can
better themselves in terms of fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence is the
capacity of reasoning and finding a...
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 A government laptop computer belonging to an employee of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has compromised the personal information of some 2,500 patients participating in a study. The data was not encrypted, which contravenes to the federal guidelines in effect since 2006."When volunteers enroll in a clinical...
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 During the next 18 months, The Seattle Biomedical Research
Institute and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative will be asking people in
Seattle to volunteer to be exposed to the deadliest form of malaria, in order
to help them test the effectiveness of more types of vaccines.
With more than 70 scientists focused only on malaria,...
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 The biggest research ever made on aromatherapy, made by
researchers at Ohio State University, revealed that the method cannot improve
an individual’s immunity or heal wounds and control pain.
The study, published online in the journal
Psychoneuroendocrinology, involved two popular scents that are heavily promoted
by...
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 When feeling blue, not only your mood is affected, but also
your wallet.
The concept of retail therapy is becoming more and more
scientific nowadays and studies demonstrate its irrefutable influence.
Researchers from Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh teamed up for a study
focusing on the...
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 According to medical report released on Wednesday, viewing the reflected image of an intact limb in a mirror can fool the mind into thinking that a lost leg or foot still exists, dramatically relieving phantom limb pain.
At least 9 out of 10 amputees report feeling sometimes-severe pain in the missing limb, often the result of a...
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 According to a recent research energy drinks may boost your
blood pressure and heart rate, as well as your vitality.
A small study found that drinking just two cans of a popular
drink increased blood pressure and heart rate within four hours.
While the increases didn't reach dangerous levels in the healthy...
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 According to a Dutch study published on Wednesday, thirteen
percent of healthy adults were found to have some type of undiagnosed
abnormality in the brain.
The research, led by Meike Vernooij of the Erasmus MC
University Medical Center in Rotterdam,
is important because brain scans are becoming more common and more detailed,
and...
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 During a study, US researchers kept volunteers awake for 35
hours and found huge increases in brain activity when shown images designed to
make them angry or sad.
The research in the journal Current Biology points to links
between mental illness and sleep problems, they said.
However, a British expert said psychiatric problems...
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 According to a group of US researchers, the Alzheimer disease could be avoided altogether if a good clean life is led. Those less likely to contract this illness must have the following qualities: conscientious, self-disciplined, and scrupulous.Apparently, as the study itself shows, conducted by Robert Wilson of Rush University Medical...
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 Merck also known as
Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA
and Canada,
one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has abandoned trials
on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising in the fight
against Aids.
The decision came after scientist discovered that the drug
was in fact...
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US cable channel HBO has bought the rights to a documentary about president-elect Barack Obama, produced by Oscar- nominated actor Edward Norton, the Hollywood Reporter said Friday.
A crew for Norton's Class 5 Films has been following the African- American politician since early 2006 - even before he announced his intention to run...
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Stacy Peterson, the wife of a former police officer, has become known worldwide as she disappeared a year ago with nobody to track her down. On Tuesday, there has been exactly a year since her disappearance and the family members will hold a candlelight vigil. Still, her husband will again be in New York to tell a national television...
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 Tropical Storm Gustav headed toward Cuba on Wednesday after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.Evacuations are possible for residents in New Orleans. People living in the area were...
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 After Hurricane Dolly made landfall in close proximity to the Texas-Mexico border, Texas’s governor declared 15 counties disaster areas. The Red Cross is calling for volunteers from all over the country so as to lend a hand. The humanitarian organization which provides emergency assistance identified the neighborhoods in need of help and...
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 About 25,000 people marched through Golden Gate Park Sunday in the 22nd annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, raising the astonishing amount of $4,512,934 to overcome the AIDS pandemic, event organizers said.Volunteers at the finish line welcomed the participants who took the streets of San Francisco, walking 6.2 mile in Golden Gate Park.Since...
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 The Mississippi River’s flooding waters passed levees and swamped nearly two dozen of them along the waterway, deluging dozens of small towns in Iowa and the neighboring states of Illinois and Missouri, on Thursday.
The floods have also destroyed thousands of hectares of agricultural crops, including corn and wheat. More than two...
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 A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a parish school festival in Granada Hills, wounding his ex-girlfriend and two other fairgoers before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities said. He was anger after a dispute with the woman. The two have a 9-year-old child who attends the school.The shooting took...
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 It appears that firefighters are investigating a blaze that
managed to destroy the presidential campaign office of Senator Hillary Clinton
in Terre Haute,
according to the Associated Press. No one was reported injured due to the fire,
which broke out just after 12:30 a.m. Friday. The cause is currently...
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 The US Coast Guard is criticized in a new report on the San
Francisco Bay oil spill for failing to notify the public about the incident and
underestimating the quantity of fuel spilled.
Top Coast Guard officials who reviewed the report said the
assessment praised the cleanup effort but criticized the Coast Guard for not
notifying...
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 A five-hour hostage standoff Friday at a Hillary Clinton campaign
office ended peacefully when police arrested a man who allegedly held
three captives claiming he had a bomb.
The suspect, described by US media as a local man in his 40s with a
history of mental illness, surrendered to police in Rochester, New
Hampshire, after a...
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 A large oil spill in the San Francisco Bay continued to affect hundreds
of birds and other wildlife as state authorities launched a criminal
investigation targeting the crew of the container ship which slammed
into the Bay Bridge last week.
More than 500 birds have now been buried alive in oil and 200 have
died as more than...
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 Hundreds of workers attempted to save wildlife and halt the spread of a
large oil spill in the San Francisco Bay that has continued to spread
and led to the closing of many beaches on the US West Coast.
More than 200 birds have been buried alive in oil and 60 have
already died, radio broadcaster KCBS reported late Saturday. More...
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The United States will be asked to consider a series of amendments to an agreement on the status of its forces in Iraq, Iraqi officials announced Tuesday.
The list of proposed amendments were ratified by the federal cabinet, which also authorized the Iraqi prime minister to discuss the issue with Washington.
Government spokesman...
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At least 35 people were killed and 47 were injured Tuesday in a suicide attack in front of a police station in Iraq's Diyala province, medical and witnesses said.
An attacker got out of a car and detonated himself amid a crowd of volunteers who were standing in front of the police building in the town of Djalula, 60 kilometres...
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Two Chinese passengers have died in hospital after a van they were travelling in collided with an Olympic shuttle bus in Beijing, organizers said on Thursday.
The two people died in hospital after emergency treatment following the collision on Wednesday afternoon, Wang Wei, the secretary general of the Beijing organizing committee...
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 Heavy rains forced rescue workers to halt the search Thursday for more
bodies buried under tons of earth after landslides and flash floods
swept through Indonesia's densely populated Java island, leaving more
than 100 people dead or missing.
At around 0900 GMT, rescue workers had pulled 12 bodies from under
a blanket of mud in the...
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 Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy downpours left more than
100 dead or missing Wednesday on Indonesia's densely populated Java
island, officials and local media said.
More than 12 hours of incessant rains triggered landslides and
flash floods in a number of districts of Central and East Java
provinces, officials...
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 A train packed with Muslim holiday travellers derailed early Wednesday
in southern Pakistan, killing at least 51 passengers and injuring more
than 160, government officials said.
That toll stood as darkness fell - but paramilitary and civilian
rescue workers continued to remove bodies trapped within the twisted
wreckage, Ishfaq...
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 A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
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 A powerful tropical cyclone struck the southern Bangladesh coast
Thursday forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes
after the peripheral stormy winds sparked giant waves and floods on the
off-shore islands, officials said.
One million people living in fragile coastal villages were
evacuated to safe locations...
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 Warning of an imminent major eruption, Indonesian authorities said Sunday they would force residents to evacuate the slopes of Mount Kelud volcano officials.
"Compulsory evacuation is to be conducted in order to avoid fatalities," Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news...
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 The armed conflict makes new victims in Sri
Lanka, 14 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels
being killed by governmental forces across the island.
Most of the fighting takes place in the northern regions,
where a group of rebels tried to ambush military troops Thursday. Ten rebels
were shot dead, as the security forces...
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The glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to China's face when the Russian competed in the Olympic pole vault just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night in which Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase domination from world champion Brimin...
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Gottlieb Braun-Elwert, a German immigrant who became New Zealand's most famous mountain guide, died on Thursday while accompanying Prime Minister Helen Clark on a hiking trip, police said.
Braun-Elwert, 59, was believed to have suffered a heart attack in a mountain hut near Lake Tekapo, in the Southern Alps.
Clark, who was in a...
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 More than 35,000 modern-day hippies attended the four-day festival in Rothbury, Michigan, which opened on July 4. The festival managed to reach all its goals: musical, cultural and ecological. The fans could listen to more than 80 acts performing and all tickets were sold in all 50 states, an aspect which made the festival an...
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 Keith Kennedy, the 25-year-old autistic man
was found alive Sunday night after spending seven days lost in the wilderness
south of Grantsburg, Wis. A group of St. Paul
and Maple Grove
firefighters found him at about 7 p.m. a mile west of Trade Lake Camp, lying
next to a stream, Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland said, according to...
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As many as 49 children, many of them less than a year old, died during clinical trials of new drugs and therapies at a premier Indian medical institute over the past two and a half years, news reports said Monday.
"A total of 49 deaths corresponding to 1.18 per cent mortality among the enrolled patients were recorded during the...
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 A new research study published in
the Thursday online edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology examined
what happens in the brain when we scratch. The researchers tried to find the
cause of scratching and why it feels so good and hard to stop, even to the
point of bleeding.
The study, based on Magnetic
Resonance...
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 New Zealand and Australia announced Wednesday they will lead a formal
diplomatic protest against Japan's move to catch more than 1,000 whales
in the Antarctic over the southern hemisphere summer.
At the same time, the Greenpeace environmental organization's
protest ship Esperanza left Auckland in a bid to stop four Japanese
boats...
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 Going now into its first
human trials, a vaccine that could help to control a flu pandemic has shown
encouraging results.
The vaccine, made by
Acambis, based in Cambridge, should protect against all strains of influenza A,
the type responsible for pandemics. Unlike existing vaccines it does not have
to be reformulated each year...
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 According to a recent study, smoking a moderate amount of cannabis
(marijuana) may relieve pain but smoking high doses may increase pain.
"Previous studies have suggested that smoked cannabis
increases pain," lead investigator Dr. Mark Wallace of the University of
California, San Diego told Reuters Health. "This is...
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 Today it was announced that doctors, medical schools, hospitals, researchers and health organizations intend to create the world's largest online medical encyclopedia.Known as Medpedia, the medical encyclopedia will have Wikipedia as model, but it will be written and edited only by qualified professionals. Volunteers who would like to...
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The 12th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the
Cure in Salt Lake City, Utah, took place on Saturday. This action is
organized each year by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, which was
founded by Nancy Briker in 1982, in her sister’s (Susan Komen) memory. Susan
Komen suffered from cancer and died three years after being...
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 A new study proved that people spend more on themselves when
they are feeling sad.
The study, presented Saturday at a meeting of the Society
for Social and Personality Psychology, states that sadness makes people focus
more on themselves, and induces them the feeling that they and their belongings
are not valuable enough....
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 US researchers suggest that a disturbed night's sleep may
increase the risk of developing diabetes.
The US team discovered that volunteers who were roused
whenever they were about to fall into the deepest sleep developed insulin
resistance.
This inability of the body to recognise normal insulin
signals leads to high blood...
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 According to scientists, an area of the brain that generates
debilitating migraine headaches has been discovered.
Researchers in France observing the brain scans of
volunteers found that activity in the hypothalamus gland was associated with an
attack. The gland, in the centre of the brain just above the brain stem, has
long been...
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 A new study finds that older obese adults who are in good
cardiovascular shape have a lower risk of death than those who are of normal
weight but are out of shape.
The research, published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, finds that adults over age 60 who have higher levels of
cardiovascular fitness live longer...
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 According to scientists, broccoli contains a chemical called
sulphoraphane, which activates cancer-fighting enzymes inside cells.
Researchers say the richest source of sulphoraphane is contained in sprouts.
In a demonstration of the plant's anti-cancer properties,
investigators smeared broccoli sprout extract on the skin of six...
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 According to American medical researchers, the cattle
prod-launching stun weapon or as they are know on the street, Tasers, are in
few words safe to use.
The study was funded by the US
Justice Department and took into consideration almost 1,000 cases where
American plods meted out electric enforcement, and found that 99.7 per cent...
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Up to 1.5 million descendants of Spaniards who were exiled during the 1936-39 civil war or the subsequent dictatorship of General Francisco Franco are expected to seek Spanish nationality on the basis of a new law, the daily El Pais reported Monday.
Most will be Latin Americans interested in emigrating from countries facing economic...
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Tens of thousands of people displaced by recent fighting in Ossetia could be doing worse - in no small part because Georgia has a lot of practice helping people who have just lost their homes in a war.
Nuri Sarlidze, 44, is a resident of the Georgian town of Gori, but on Wednesday he was killing time in a place called Mkhehti, as the...
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Six people died and 35 were injured Friday after a bridge structure fell in front of a speeding international train in eastern Czech Republic, firefighters said.
Five women and one man were killed in the crash, while two French nationals, an English-speaking passenger and several Poles were among the injured, said fire service...
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 Finland held a national day of mourning Thursday the day after a
Finnish high-school student killed eight people in a shooting rampage
where he fired 69 shots.
Police told reporters that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a student at the school, had at least 300 bullets in his possession.
Auvinen, 18, died late Wednesday in a Helsinki hospital...
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 After days of strenuous work, hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers managed to quell the merciless blazes that destroyed homes and lives in Greece, authorities announced on Thursday.Official sources set the death toll at 64 after almost a week of inferno, the value of the material damage being expected to reach billions of...
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 Scientists at Stemagen Corp, a reproductive lab in La Jolla, California claimed on Thursday that they have succeeded in creating embryos from adult human cells, which could potentially be a huge breakthrough towards the production of stem cells.The US researchers made the announcement in an article published in the peer-reviewed journal...
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 South Korea is facing the largest oil spill ever found on its coast, as it struggles to minimize its effects, in a huge clean-up operation.At least 6.800 people were mobilized on Sunday in order to contain a slick that is more than 17 kilometers in length and 10 metres in width."It is possible the oil spill will extend...
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 It is already known that people
need sleep, as much as food, so that their bodies could work and manage to successfully
accomplish all the daily tasks. However, today we get more and more people deprived
of sleep in our continual run for fame and glory, money and gadgets. We have forgotten
the simple pleasures of life, such as the...
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 A new study has officially
revealed what is somehow already known: the fact that we are impressed by the
others’ fearful looks, rather than by their smiles and their happy faces. It is
all in our brain, as you might have already guessed!
The study that has been realized
by a team of researchers from the Vanderbilt
University...
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 It is only our own nose that
“tells” us whether a man smells like vanilla, or like a dirty beggar!
Surprising as it sounds, when it comes about the men’s smells there is no such
thing as an absolute aroma. It is only our noses that determine us to like or
dislike a man’s smell. So this mean, that, yes!, there are certain people...
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 Back in 1985 the famous
neurologist called Oliver Sacks published a book that has changed a little bit
the way common people understand the brain’s problems and their consequences.
In “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” Oliver Sacks told the stories of
some people who suffered from some of the strangest neurological...
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 All women will now bravely say:
“I knew it!” It’s true, men turned out to be as talkative as women, as the
recent studies showed. The myth turned out to be just a wrong common belief,
which science has now quickly corrected.
A group of American researchers
published on Thursday their study after counting the words that about...
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 A recent UN report reveals that almost 22 per cent of children under five years living in Kenyan refugee camps suffer from malnutrition.The level of malnutrition reached “crisis level” according to the international organization, who urged the assignment of 32 million dollars to redress the dramatic situation.“One in every five children...
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Volunteer help was expected in the search of missing Stacy
Peterson, as well as FBI’s expertise. The investigation is focusing now on
rivers and lakes, as recent reports state that Drew Peterson, Stacy’s husband
was seen loading a large blue barrel in his car just the day of the woman’s
missing.
Bolingbrook Recreation and...
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 The great weather in Manhattan has dragged thousands of people out on the streets in order to attend to what it has become one of the most iconic symbols of the Thanksgiving weekend in New York, the Macy’s Day Parade.The parade tradition began in 1924, when the European immigrants that were working at Macy's department store decided to...
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 Michael Moore couterattacked Monday and criticized the U.S. government for investigating the Cuban chapter of his latest 'Sicko' documentary, which premiered in Cannes last month. A portion of the documentary was filmed in Cuba, where Moore traveled with September 11 aid workers.Subsequently, the US Treasury launched an investigation...
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At least 12 people were killed Monday when Taliban militants and local tribesmen exchanged heavy gunfire in Pakistan's restive tribal district of Bajaur, security officials said.
The fighting started when an army of volunteers from the Salarzai tribe tried to set ablaze the houses of the insurgents, who have been fighting...
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 The Taliban executed seven men they had abducted in Afghanistan's
south-eastern region, while 10 Taliban fighters and three civilians
were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
A Taliban spokesman claimed that their forces had killed three
Afghan policemen, two National Army soldiers and two truck...
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 The fierce conflict that erupted last month near Tripoli between Lebanese troops and Fatah al-Islam militants claimed more lives on Monday, as two workers of the international humanitarian movement were killed at the Nahr al-Bared camp entrance.The Lebanese army vehemently denied any implication in the unfortunate incident, saying the...
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