You might expect men and women to look at sexual photographs differently. But a new study unexpectedly found that men are more likely than women to first look at faces rather than other parts of a nude body. Also, the women in the study spent more time than the men looking at images of couples [...]
People from families prone to Parkinson’s who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease, researchers said on Monday in a finding that reinforces earlier observations and offers potential paths to treatment. The researchers doubt that smoking and caffeine protect from Parkinson’s, but say the information offers clues about how environment works [...]
Nearly 30 percent of Americans need mental health care but only about a third of them receive it, researchers say. Reporting in the March issue of the journal Psychiatric Services, researchers interviewed 816 people in Baltimore between 1993 and 1999. They found that the most common conditions requiring treatment were alcohol dependence (14 percent) and [...]
Will you lose weight and keep it off if you diet? No, probably not, UCLA researchers report in the April issue of American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association. “You can initially lose 5 to 10 percent of your weight on any number of diets, but then the weight comes back,” said Traci [...]
A British research team led by the world’s leading heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. If animal trials scheduled for later this year prove successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from heart disease within three [...]
A report posted on the journal Science by the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute traces the loss of hair color to the gradual dying off of adult stem cells, called melanocytes, that provide a reservoir for the renewal of pigment-manufacturing cells. The discovery was made while scientists were researching the origins of malignant melanoma, a potentially [...]
A team of food chemists at the University of Maryland has discovered how to boost the antioxidant content of pizza dough by optimizing baking and fermentation methods, a finding that could lead to healthier pizza, they say. (Credit: Photo by Scott Bauer / Courtesy of USDA/Agricultural Research Service) CHICAGO — Scientists are developing a healthier [...]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) — Chocoholics were given further reason to rejoice Saturday when a small clinical study showed that dark chocolate improves the function of blood vessels. While the researchers cautioned against bingeing on bon bons, they said the findings of the trial were clear and called for larger such studies to confirm the [...]
Illegal drugs can be “harmless” and should no longer be “demonised”, a wide-ranging two-year study concluded today. The report said Britain’s drug laws were “not fit for purpose” and should be torn up in favour of a system which recognised that drinking and smoking could cause more harm. The RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs ,set [...]
Obese couples have a more difficult time conceiving a baby than couples of normal weight, according to a study published on Tuesday identifying another consequence of putting on too much weight. Researchers tracked nearly 48,000 Danish couples between 1996 and 2002, including about 7,600 couples with both the man and woman either overweight or obese [...]
