A variety of health problems at greater risk may occur for people who have trouble in sleeping,which includes diabetes, heart disease or depression.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that participants waking up repeatedly during the night were more likely to show Alzheimer’s disease-related signs than sound sleepers. The researchers, led by neurologist [...]
Middle-aged men who smoked did worse on tests of cognitive ability over time, but women didn’t show the same declines in a new study.
Smoking contributes to a variety of health problems,including heart disease, emphysema and lung cancers. But now there’s growing evidence that using cigarettes can also affect the brain.Yes , its true.Smoking is [...]
Do you know that “Your daily dose of caffeine may tinker with more than just your energy levels”?
A new study of women ages 18 to 44 found that drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages can alter levels of estrogen. But the impact varies by race. In white women, for example, coffee appears to lower estrogen, [...]
Don’t mix drinking and pregnancy, but when are babies most vulnerable to the effects of alcohol
The end of the first trimester appears to be the period when alcohol can wreak the most havoc on fetal development, causing physical deformities as well as behavioral and cognitive symptoms, according to research in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & [...]
We’re so used to hearing about the importance of screening for cancer — the earlier tumors are detected, the better they can be treated — that it seems anathema to learn that in some cases, screening may not necessarily save us from cancer.
At least, it may not necessarily save enough lives on a population level [...]
Avastin, the blockbuster drug that just lost approval for treating breast cancer, now looks disappointing against ovarian cancer, too. Two studies found it did not improve survival for most of these patients and kept their disease from worsening for only a few months, with more side effects.
The Genentech drug won approval in Europe last week [...]
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission unanimously approved a radical new reactor design on Thursday, clearing away a major obstacle for two utilities to begin construction on projects in South Carolina and Georgia.
The decision, a milestone in the much-delayed revival of plant construction sought by the nuclear industry, involves the Westinghouse AP1000, a 1,154-megawatt [...]
Your resting heart rate is an easy measure of your health and fitness, and a new study suggests that a rising heart rate over time may signal heart problems
There are several ways doctors predict your vulnerability to heart disease, among them: cholesterol levels, blood pressure, blood glucose levels and weight. Now a new study adds [...]
The latest update to the annual Monitoring the Future survey of drug use in American youth bears mainly good news, at least if your interest is in reducing drug-related harm: both teen drinking and cigarette smoking are at historic lows; in fact, past-month marijuana use is now more commonly reported by high school seniors than [...]
DURBAN: Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan landed in Durban on Sunday ahead of the high-level climate talks to hammer out a decision that only the political heads of 195 countries can take – a compromise that would ensure Kyoto Protocol remains alive and that the world signals readiness to discuss a new legally binding deal for [...]
