When young children gain too much weight , it’s easy to blame parents but the latest research suggests that certain obesity risk factors are out of Mom and Dad’s control.
The scientists at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University found that exposure to air pollution during pregnancy may be associated with a greater [...]
In my house, bedtime stories are sacred. Rarely does something derail the nightly routine, although feverish kids have been known to be tucked in, sans story. But last week, my strep-throated 4-year-old awoke at 1 a.m. with this complaint: “You forgot to read me my bedtime story.”
She was right. So I groggily pulled a book [...]
The more medications a man takes, the worse his symptoms of sexual dysfunction may be.
A new Kaiser Permanente study published this week in the British Journal of Urology International found that men who took multiple drugs — prescription or over the counter — were more likely to have erectile dysfunction than men who took fewer [...]
For two years, a bunch of medical geneticists in Maryland and New Jersey sifted through 1,000 different genetic mutations. They looked for cellular changes that are fatal and ones that are treatable. They argued. Eventually, they decided to include close to 600 mutations found in more than 160 diseases in a single genetic screening test [...]
If men are funnier than women, then it’s not by much — and mostly just to other men. Such is the conclusion of a new study by psychologists at the University of California, San Diego, who judged comic wit by asking students to write original captions for New Yorker cartoons.
Setting aside the fact that writing [...]
