April is National Autism Awareness Month in the US. While the cause of this disorder remains unknown, increasing general awareness can lead to earlier diagnoses, more effective interventions and improved access to services and support for individuals affected by the … Read More »
MRSA has become one of the deadliest bacteria of modern times. The cause of more than 80,000 severe infections in the US every year, the “superbug” has evolved to develop resistance to many antibiotics that once killed it. But researchers … Read More »
In the journal Human Reproduction, researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA, report that men who eat fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues have a lower percentage of normal sperm, compared with … Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »