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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010Some people can sleep through anything. Others not so much. Light sleepers who are easily awakened by noise have different brain rhythms than people who can sleep through it, according to a new study. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that the number of brain rhythms called spindles produced during a quiet night determines whether [...]
More Americans Are Drinking Alcohol
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010More adults in the U.S. appear to be drinking alcohol, according to a new study. The trend seems to be consistent across ethnic groups and genders. Between 1992 and 2002, the percentage of men and women who drank alcohol increased, as did the percentage of whites, blacks, and Hispanics. These days it seems everyone has [...]
Vitamin E May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Thursday, July 8th, 2010People who have high levels of vitamin E in their blood appear to be at a lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from Swedish researchers. The study suggests that vitamin E may prevent cognitive decline, including Alzheimer’s disease, in elderly people. The study followed 232 people from the Kungsholmen Project, a [...]
Multivitamins May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Multivitamins are good for you right? That’s what many people think. But a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that multivitamin use may increase the risk of breast cancer in women. The finding comes from a 10-year study which followed over 35,000 women between the ages of 49 and 83. [...]
Naptime Helps Babies Remember
Friday, February 26th, 2010Naps are important for infant learning. They help children’s developing brains retain information according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson found that infants who have daytime naps are more likely to exhibit an advanced level of learning called abstraction, which is the ability to detect a pattern contained in [...]
Tylenol May Protect Kidneys After Muscle Damage
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Acetaminophen, commonly sold as Tylenol, may help protect the kidneys after a person suffers severe muscle injury, according to new findings. Life-threatening kidney problems can be the result of severe muscle damage because of crush injuries suffered in earthquakes, car crashes, explosions, etc. Right now treatment is limited to intravenous fluids and dialysis, but the [...]
Take a Break, Boost Your Memory
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Listen up workaholics. You can take a break and feel good about it, not guilty. If you want to strengthen your memory, take a break after learning new information, according to New York University researchers who found such “active rest” strengthens memory. Sleep has been studied and found as a valuable way to preserve memories, [...]
New morning-after pill ellaOne works up to 5 days
Friday, January 29th, 2010According to a new study, a new kind of morning-after pill is more effective than the most widely used drug at preventing pregnancies and it also works longer, for up to five days. Levonorgestrel, the most widely used emergency contraceptive pill, is only effective if women take it within three days of having sex. It [...]
Parents have lower blood pressure
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Parents have a stressful job. It isn’t easy raising kids, but new research calls into question some long-held beliefs about physical and psychological effects of having kids. Surprisingly, a new study finds that parents have better blood pressure readings than childless adults. “Women were driving the effect,” says co-author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham [...]
Fat May Help Build Bone Mass in Girls
Friday, January 8th, 2010Looks like fat mass plays an important role in building bone mass in teenage girls and having too little may increase their risk of osteoporosis later in life, according to new research. Researchers measured cortical bone mass (the hard outer layer of bone) in 4,005 girls and boys, mean age 15.5 years. The results showed [...]
