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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 new [...]
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, but [...]
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 is [...]
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 Young University [...]
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 that [...]
New Study Says That Guys Fake It, A Lot
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Usually we hear about women faking it in bed, but a new study suggests that men do it too. Often. According to the study, at least 25 percent of guys have done it. They polled students at the University of Kansas, and found that while women tend to fake orgasm to protect the feelings of [...]
Quitting Smoking May Raise Diabetes Risk
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010According to a new study, people who quit smoking are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes after they quit. This is likely due to weight gain after quitting. But experts warn that the benefits of quitting smoking far outweigh the risk of developing diabetes, a disease that can be treated with diet, exercise, [...]
Does Wii Fit really get you fit?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009According to a recent study, the Wii Fit may not get you very fit after all. In the study, a Wii Fit was loaned to eight families and their usage and fitness impact were tracked over time (specifically three months before they got the Wii, and three months after).
The final verdict? Well it looks like [...]
Bad Driver? Blame Your Genes
Friday, October 30th, 2009Seems like we are blaming our genes for everything. Sometimes it’s justified, sometimes not. In a study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researcher Steven Cramer found that people with a certain gene variant performed more than 30 percent worse on a driving test than people without it.
The study might also help explain why [...]
