To paraphrase a great old slogan for Guinness beer: Sex isn’t just good, it’s good for you! Okay, so maybe there’s some wishful thinking going on — the science isn’t exactly iron-clad — but evidence is accumulating that the more sex you have, the better off you are. There is one caveat, though. “We do [...]
Television poses risk to childrens’ health: study The study published in the science journal Biologist concludes that cutting viewing time for children must become a health priority and could save Britain’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) money. It found that watching television inhibits the production of the hormone melatonin, which affects the immune system, sleep [...]
Hunger kills 18,000 kids each day Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a “terrible indictment of the world in 2007,” the head of the U.N. food agency said. James Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups, [...]
British doctors give Viagra to save premature baby English doctors used the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save the life of a severely premature baby, media reports have said. Medics in the northeast city of Newcastle upon Tyne gave the drug to Lewis Goodfellow — who was born at 24 weeks, weighing just one pound, eight [...]
Eating large amounts of carbohydrates does not appear to increase the risk of colon cancer in women, according to study findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. There is experimental evidence to suggest that abnormal sugar and carbohydrate metabolism plays a role in the development of colon cancer, Dr. Susanna C. Larsson, of the [...]
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you’re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers’, a new research report shows. Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items [...]
Why do men ignore nagging wives? It’s all science A psychologist has found the answer to the age old question many women have about their husbands: ” Why does her husband often seemed to ignore her requests for help around the house?” New research findings now appearing online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology [...]
