Women lucky enough to live in 1 of the 8 states that mandates insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be even more lucky than they realize. According to the latest research presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at this week’s annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference, those mom-wannabes are less likely [...]
If you have someone in your life who stubbornly refuses to get in line by going online, here’s a carrot. Yesterday, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, presented their study showing that when adults (ages 55 to 78) go online their brains get bigger. Well, maybe not physically bigger, but they did reclaim [...]
Mercury—a potent neurotoxin—has long been the whipping post of parents-turned-autism-activists, scientific evidence be damned. But a study published online yesterday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives casts further doubt on the tenuous connection between the heavy metal and the devastating brain disorder. In what is being called “the most rigorous examination to date of blood-mercury [...]
For any woman, a breast cancer diagnosis is a sucker punch to the gut, but a new Australian study finds that more well-educated women fare worse psychologically than their less-educated peers. For the cohort study, 1,684 women were recruited within 12 months of being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Each woman completed a standard, 22-item [...]
In our science-via-soundbite culture, it’s easy to glom onto health news that validates the things we love—what? coffee might prevent Alzheimer’s? pass the triple Americano—and ignore headlines that threatens to dampen the fun, such as the drawbacks of drinking. Everyone’s heard the news that moderate drinking may thwart heart disease. But, as a new HealthDay [...]
Infections following a tongue-piercing led to fatal brain abscesses in the case of one 22-year-old, according to a report published in the October issue of the journal Archives of Neurology. Just two weeks after getting his tongue pierced, a young man developed 13 dangerous lesions on the brain, which ultimately led to his demise two [...]
After giving infants standard childhood vaccines against diseases such as diptheria, polio, whooping cough and others, doctors sometimes also recommend acetaminophen—sold as paracetamol in Europe, Tylenol and other names in the U.S.—as a prophylactic, to help prevent fever after the shots. Acetaminophen is both an analgesic, or pain reliever, and an antipyretic, or fever reducer. [...]
It’s no surprise that people have unique scents—from your seventh grade teacher’s combination of pungent perfume and chalk dust, to your mom’s familiar aroma of Gardenia and soap. But, are our particular smells unique enough for everyone to have a distinct “odorprint”? According to an article from Chemical & Engineering News, there is a growing [...]
In a study that tracked hand-washing behavior in 250,000 people, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that only a third of men washed with soap, compared with two thirds of women, the BBC reports. Authors of the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, used sensors to monitor [...]
