Many patients who receive gastric banding surgery for weight loss experience major complications 12 years later, and as many as half of patients eventually have their bands removed, a new study reports.
Consider the challenge faced by a human sperm cell. The tiniest cell in the human body, it must navigate the equivalent of dozens of miles through an obstacle-strewn maze to find the egg.
The news that actress Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday morning of congestive heart failure at age 79 highlights how common the disease is in the U.S.
Percentage of men who said they weren't satisfied with how often they had sex, in an Australian survey of 6,544 people who were married, living with a partner or in a relationship; 42% of women also reported dissatisfaction. The majority of respondents said they weren't getting enough sex. Men and women who were unhappy with [...]
It’s practically been relegated to superstar status in the annals of parenting lore: the Manhattan mom who sued her daughter’s $19,000-a-year preschool on grounds that the 4-year-old was not sufficiently prepared to tackle the entrance test for private kindergarten.
—JOSEPH SCHWIETERMAN, bus ridership researcher and director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University in Chicago, on the Federal Transit Authority's proposal to increase the assumed average weight per bus passenger from 150 lbs. to 175 lbs.; the agency also proposes adding an extra quarter of a square foot of floor space [...]
There’s no denying that regular physical activity and a healthy sex life are good for your heart. But if you’ve ever huffed and puffed your way through a jog or a particularly strenuous bout of lovemaking, you might have wondered whether the exertion was actually stressing, rather than strengthening, your heart.
Have you ever noticed that people on diets are really crabby? While many might blame low blood sugar or a general lack of pleasure (rice cakes, cabbage soup — ugh!), recent psychological research suggests that it’s actually the exercise of self-control that leads people to become irritable and aggressive at inappropriate times.
In her 2009 book, A Paradise Built in Hell, author Rebecca Solnit describes how in the aftermath of natural and man-made disasters — such as the one unfolding in Japan — human beings tend to respond by banding together, not tearing apart.
Percentage higher risk of melanoma diagnosis among white girls and women in neighborhoods with the highest socioeconomic status and highest UV radiation exposure, compared with their counterparts from the poorest neighborhoods, according to a study of 3,800 white girls and women in California aged 15 to 39. [via Archives of Dermatology]
