Health experts are cautioning people not to attempt a dare that is catching on due to a viral video.
Don’t expect any great culinary creation when your kids go digging into the spice drawer. They may be looking for the cinnamon, which they want to attempt to swallow, without water.
Are genetically engineered mosquitoes the best way to go?
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, just held a meeting about potential trials involving the release of genetically modified male mosquitoes into the delicate ecosystem of the Florida Keys. The stated purpose of the trials is to investigate controlling the spread of dengue fever.
The company behind the technology, British firm Oxitec, explains that sterile males would be released to compete with wild males for female insects, which would then have no offspring and reduce the population of the next generation…
Pharmaceuticals found to be more harmful than beneficial?
There’s always that part at the end of drug commercials that goes something like: if you develop sausage fingers, webbed feet, or a three-week erection, call your doctor! But as exhaustive as those auctioneer-style lists sound, they barely scratch the surface when it comes to the side effects pople are actually experiencing.
Stanford researchers created an algorithm that identified 1,332 drug side effects not currently listed on labels. They estimate that each drug has 329 adverse reactions on average, nearly five times the 69 currently listed…
Continue reading… “Drugs cause about five times more side effects than realized”
Another new discovery in China.
Your family tree just got wider. Scientists have analyzed fossils found in China, and deemed them to be from a new human species unlike any ever identified before; say hello to your long-lost cousin.
The skull, originally unearthed in 1979 in the Guangxi Province of China, has only now been fully analyzed (talk about procrastination, right?). It turns out that it has thick bones, extremely prominent brow ridges, a very short, flat face, and also lacks our typically human chin. “In short, it is anatomically unique among all members of the human evolutionary tree,” explains researcher Darren Curnoe to New Scientist…
Continue reading… “Scientists have identified a completely new human species from China”
A new study has found that a chemical found in large quantities in fast food and margarine causes aggression.
Trans fat can actually make you angry – and should not be fed to school pupils, a new study has warned. A chemical called ‘trans fatty acids’ – found in large quantities in margarine, and also in other fast foods – makes people aggressive and irritable.
Continue reading… “Eating trans fat linked to increased aggression: Study”
The body may compensate for the sugar rush of soft drinks by making its own supply of fats.
Men who drink only one sugar-laden soft drink every day could be dramatically increasing the odds of having a heart attack. A study of more than 40,000 men suggested that a daily sugar-sweetened drink raised the chances of having a heart attack – including a deadly one – by 20 per cent.
Continue reading… “One soft drink a day raises heart attack risk in men by 20%: Study”
The gene, SIRT6, in laboratory mice and found it extended their lifespan by up to 15 per cent.
A gene has been discovered by scientists that could hold the key to extending life by up to two decades. The gene is found in all mammals and is known to protect against age-related cell damage.
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Sleep or die – lack of sleep can have serious effects to your health.
There could be serious risks to your health if you don’t get the right amount of sleep every night. Lack of sleep can leave long-lasting effects on your body and your mind. The medical perspective is irrefutable: lack of sleep is deadly.
Continue reading… “Lack of sleep is killing you: Infographic”
Meatless meals were s a top food trend for 2011.
It may be due to rising prices, concern for the environment or a growing emphasis on health, but Americans are eating less meat.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bars insurers from denying coverage or raising premiums on individuals who show a genetic predisposition toward particular diseases.
The cost of sequencing an individual genome will soon be less than $1,000, reports the New York Times. That’s not nothing, but given what most health care costs, it’s not much. And it means that an individual mandate — or something much like it — is inevitable.
Continue reading… “The health insurance industry could be destroyed by a $1000 test”
A nomadic family outside their ‘ger’ (yurt) in the Gobi desert near Choir, Mongolia.
It’s not quite the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings creating a hurricane across the world, but desertification in Mongolia is generating dangerous dust storms thousands of miles away.
Former South Korean Ambassador to China Kwon Byong Hyon made the connection more than a decade ago, and has helped spearhead an effort since then to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality his own children are exposed to back home in Seoul…
Continue reading… “Planting trees in the Mongolian Desert to fight dangerous dust storms in Seoul”
A single dose of LSD helped give alcoholics a new insight into their heavy drinking and made it less likely they would relapse.
The mind-bending drug, LSD could be used to treat alcoholism, as the hallucinogenic trips it creates alter the drinker’s perception of their habit.
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