Category: Features
Add seaweed to prevent heart disease
Adding seaweed to processed foods such as frozen pizzas, hot dogs and dried pasta will reduce cardiovascular diseases. One suggestion is to replace 5% of the flour in pizza dough with dried and granulated seaweed. University of Southern Denmark professor […]
Football strengthens the bones of prostate cancer patients
One hour of football training every week can counter brittle bones, a common effect of treatment for men with prostate cancer. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen said that football training is not just good for the heart and the […]
Sleeping helps in recalling new names and faces
People are better in recalling faces and names if they had a good night’s sleep after seeing the faces for the first time, says a new study by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). The team’s findings appear in the […]
Drinking coffee while pregnant does not harm baby’s I.Q.
Moderate amounts of coffee (or one to two cups a day) while pregnant doesn’t harm the unborn child’s IQ or cause behavioral problems, according to a study from The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital that was published in the […]
Meditation technique can reduce prejudice
Love-kindness meditation (LKM), a meditation technique that’s intended to create feelings of kindness can also reduce prejudice, according to new University of Sussex research. The study, published online in the journal Motivation and Emotion, found that just seven minutes of […]
Tattoos may be a coping mechanism for some college-age women
A new study shows that women with multiple tattoos report higher levels of self-esteem than those without. Moreover, escalating acquisition of body art does not correlate with increased depression or suicide ideation among men or women. However, the same multi-tattooed […]
Searching the brain for happiness
Exercising, meditating, scouring self-help books… we go out of our way to be happy, but do we really know what happiness is? Wataru Sato and his team at Kyoto University have found an answer from a neurological perspective. Overall happiness, […]
Where does creativity come from?
Researchers from the University of Hafia found the specific regions of the brain where original and creative ideas lie. An original and creative idea requires the simultaneous activation of two completely different networks in the brain. According to the researchers, […]
New gene that makes common bacteria resistant to last-line antibiotic
A new gene (mcr-1) that enables bacteria to be highly resistant to polymyxins, the last line of antibiotic defence we have left, is widespread in Enterobacteriaceae taken from pigs and patients in south China, including strains with epidemic potential, according […]
New treatment options to prevent vision loss from diabetes
A network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is complication of diabetes. The researchers, part of the Diabetic […]
