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 [...]
