Category: Education
Improve your brain function with these simple and effective techniques
While you read and hear a lot about how important it is to keep your body healthy and fit, what about doing the same for your brain? Just as your body requires a nourishing and well-balanced diet, adequate sleep and […]
Love running? You might have been born to do it
In their study, published this week in The FASEB Journal, the team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas discovered that female mice who exercised voluntarily during their pregnancy also had offspring that grew up to be […]
Mother’s smoking during pregnancy affects baby’s DNA
Pregnant women now have another reason to quit smoking – a new analysis links it to differences in their babies’ DNA that mirror alterations in adult smokers and suggest how smoking might contribute to certain birth defects. Researchers analysed data […]
How to fix FOMO?
With at least 24 percent of teenagers online ‘almost constantly,’ it’s no surprise that fear of missing out (FOMO) is an epidemic among millennials. “FOMO is especially rampant in the millennial community because they see a peer achieving something they […]
Researchers define the elements of a ‘good death’
A good life is easy to imagine, but what constitutes a good death? Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine identified 11 core themes associated with dying well. The findings are published in the April 2016 […]
Tweet2Quit twice as effective to make smokers quit
Twitter-based smoking intervention programs — Tweet2Quit — were twice as successful at kicking the habit as those using traditional methods, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Cornelia Pechmann, professor of marketing at the UC Irvine Paul Merage […]
Italian village holds secret to healthy aging
To understand how people can live longer throughout the world, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have teamed up with colleagues at University of Rome La Sapienza to study a group of 300 citizens, all over […]
US loses US$4.33 billion on premmie births linked to air pollution
The United States is spending over US$4.3 billion a year for premature births linked to air pollution. Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center said the sum includes US$760 million spent on prolonged hospital stays and long-term use of medications, […]
Scientists inch closer to universal flu vaccine
University of Georgia and Sanofi Pasteur developed a vaccine that protects against multiple strains of both seasonal and pandemic H1N1 influenza in mouse models. The development brings them a step closer to a universal flu vaccine. “One of the problems […]
Breastfeeding, vaccinations help prevent ear infection in babies
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston finds the rates of ear infections during a baby’s first year have declined; the investigators suggested that higher rates of breastfeeding, use of vaccinations and lower rates of […]
