Increasing alcohol taxes across the US could prevent thousands of deaths from motor vehicle accidents every year, say researchers who conducted a study that showed a rise in alcohol taxes in one particular state was followed by a significant reduction … Read More »
A new study shows that at levels found in typical urban environments, ultrafine airborne particles can alter heart function within minutes of being breathed in. Higher levels of ultrafine particles, such as near dense road traffic, resulted in heart function … Read More »
Researchers have called for the pharmaceutical industry, governments and medical organizations to work together to investigate the consequences of long-term use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by healthy individuals. The long-term effects of “smart drugs” on healthy people are relatively unknown. Drugs … Read More »
Consuming a diet high in methionine – an amino acid found in meat, fish, dairy and egg products – may increase the risk of memory loss. This is according to a new study recently presented at the Experimental Biology Annual … Read More »
Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, CA, and Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY, have published the findings of a new study that investigates associations between socioeconomic factors and children’s brain development in … Read More »
A new report from a group of leading medical experts in the US claims breast cancer is not a single disease; it consists of four molecular subtypes, each with different treatment responses and different survival rates. Incidence of these subtypes … Read More »
Exploding head syndrome might not be a condition that people are familiar with, but according to new research published in the Journal of Sleep Research, a surprisingly high percentage of young people could experience the psychological phenomenon. Exploding head syndrome … Read More »
A new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry investigates the role antibodies may play in cases of psychosis, suggesting that psychosis symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions may be triggered by an antibody response to a protein in the … Read More »
This description of what a patient saw from his hospital room comes from Hemingway’s 1933 short story “The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio.” What you may be surprised to learn, however, is that the story is reportedly based on … Read More »