Public Health

Decaffeinated Coffee May Benefit Liver Health

Decaffeinated coffee drinking may benefit liver health, according to a paper in Hepatology by  Researchers from the National Cancer Institute whichsayss that higher coffee consumption, regardless of caffeine content, was linked to lower levels of abnormal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 6:00pm

Science Of Losing Weight Shows It's Hard But Not Impossible

Takes time and effort. Credit: maradonna 8888 By Kira Shaw, University of Sheffield Seeing pictures of preened celebrities, or even slimmer friends, makes many wish that their arms were that little bit thinner or abs more tightly toned. Most of us have an ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 10 2014 - 7:30am

Are Antimicrobial Condoms The New Frontier Against STDs? Not Quite

Very little has been published on VivaGel in peer-reviewed literature. Credit: Morgan/Flickr, CC BY By Bridget Haire ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 12 2014 - 6:31pm

Free Radicals Found Beneficial To Wound Healing

While the modern talk is all about how antioxidants and good and free radicals are bad, biology has never been so simple. Rather than being simply destructive to tissues and cells, free radicals generated by the cell's mitochondria—the energy produci ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2014 - 12:08pm

The Rats Of New York

It's not a secret that rats carry diseases, they quite literally carried the pests that caused the Bubonic Plague across Europe in the middle ages. But New York City has always felt like their rats were exceptional compared to rats beyond the Hudson ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 11:40am

Pregnancy Pressure: Now You Should Watch Diet And Exercise Too

Mothers are already responsible for propagating the species, a thankless job which men wisely avoid in all ways, but now they may be tasked with a better diet and exercising more also, because it has been directly associated with a range of improved outco ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 12:31pm

Complacency: Is Ebola Really The Biggest Pandemic Threat?

The Ebola crisis in Africa is getting a lot of attention but coverage of a regional problem is displacing concern over a more pressing problem worldwide; influenza.  The pandemic risk from strains of influenza virus is far more worrisome than Ebola. Influ ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 12:01pm

European Pensions Add Three Hours Of Life Per Euro To East Germany

A joke in the European business community is that most young people turn 18 and start thinking about their pensions. They may have good reason, according to a study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), which found that for each ad ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 10:05am

Telomere Length Links Soda To Cell Aging Associated In New Study

Soda consumption has been linked to obesity but a new study in the American Journal of Public Health links it to disease independent from its role in fat. The paper finds that telomeres, the protective units of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes in cell ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 7:00am

The Physics Of Manicures Reveal A Public Health Warning

Do you like to keep your fingernails and toenails aesthetically pleasing? You could be putting yourself at risk of serious nail conditions, say researchers at the University of Nottingham who have devised equations to identify the physical laws that gover ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 8:11pm