There are many reasons why living near a highway is undesirable — the noise, the poor air quality, the endless stream of lost tourists using your driveway to turn around.
Medicine
Study: BPA Exposure May Reduce Chances of IVF
Toxins love to get you while you’re young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it’s mature and comparatively fixed.
Study: The Complicated Link Between Wealth and Obesity
Your socioeconomic background has less impact on your chances of obesity if you’re a man than if you’re woman, according to a new analysis from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Study: Half of Women with Breast Cancer Have Low Vitamin D
Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells?
POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juice and other pomegranate-containing products, ran afoul of the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission in September for making “false and unsubstantiated” health claims on …
Women’s Health in the U.S. Fails to Make the Grade
Women’s health initiatives in America are largely failing, according to the latest report card released by the National Women’s Law Center and Oregon Health and Science University.
The Lab Rat: What If You Could Only See the World in 2-D?
I don’t see the world the way you do. I mean this literally. Like approximately 15 million other Americans, I arrived in November 1970 with strabismus — eyes that are visibly crossed (in my case) or, at the very least, not …
Study: Soda Taxes May Not Be Enough to Curb Obesity
Money talks, but according to a new study analyzing the potential effect of a tax on soda, it might not speak loud enough to help people lose weight.
Using Sperm-Producing Cells to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Georgetown University researchers report that they were able to coax cells that normally produce sperm to make insulin instead, and used them to temporarily cure Type 1 diabetes in mice.
Study: 99% of Children Living in Apartments May Be Exposed to Secondhand Smoke
There are fewer and fewer places where smokers can light up these days, with smoking bans being instituted by governments and private companies in virtually every public place, from offices and airplanes to bars and restaurants.
Why Surgeons Dread Redheads
As the authors of a recent study published in BMJ attest, society’s red-haired members don’t always get a fair shake.
California Porn Clinic Is Denied a License by the State
A sexual health clinic in the San Fernando Valley — the Hollywood of pornography — has been denied a license to operate as a community clinic by California’s Department of Public Health, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Mind Over Matter: Can Zen Meditation Help You Forget About Pain?
Living without pain may not require potent drugs, according to a new study published in the medical journal Pain — all you need is a cushion, a quiet corner and maybe a mantra.