Is A 'Sobriety Pill' In Our Future?

Is A 'Sobriety Pill' In Our Future?

A pill may nullify some of the negative effects of alcohol. David Goehring, CC BY-SA Each year over three million people die due to alcohol-related causes. To put that in perspective, that’s a…
African-Americans May Not Trust Flu Vaccines

African-Americans May Not Trust Flu Vaccines

A survey asking if people took a flu vaccine revealed some interesting statistics - if their physician specifically recommended it, they were far more likely to have gotten one and vaccination rates…
Mindfulness Meditation May Improve Sleep Quality

Mindfulness Meditation May Improve Sleep Quality

Mindfulness meditation practices resulted in improved sleep quality for older adults with moderate sleep disturbance in a clinical trial comparing meditation to a more structured program focusing on…
Brain Protein With High Affinity For Valium

Brain Protein With High Affinity For Valium

Valium, one of the best known antianxiety drugs, produces its calming effects by binding with a particular protein in the brain. But the drug has an almost equally strong affinity for a completely…
New CP-Odd Higgs Boson Results By ATLAS

New CP-Odd Higgs Boson Results By ATLAS

The paper to read today is one from the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider -my competitors, as I work for the other experiment across the ring, CMS. ATLAS has just produced a new…
Entzia And Miren - Two New Potato Varieties

Entzia And Miren - Two New Potato Varieties

Potatoes are an essential food for humans and now two new varieties produced by the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development have been added to the Registry of Commercial…
How Vaccines Changed Our Perceptions Of Disease

How Vaccines Changed Our Perceptions Of Disease

Health marketing materials used to promote measles vaccine during the 1960s. CDC The news on the current measles outbreak contains plenty of reminders that measles causes brain damage, pneumonia,…