From salmonella spread to vaccine delivery, science doesn’t wait for the work week. Here’s what you missed while you were away from the computer this weekend:
1) Egg recall grows. Fear of salmonella has prompted a massive product recall that now covers more than half a billion — yes, that’s billion with a ‘b’ — eggs across the U.S. …
Giving potatoes a good soak in a salt water solution doesn’t seem that unusual. But dunking them in such a bath and then zapping them with a jolt of electricity is hardly a conventional culinary trick—even in the name of …
You’ve tried carrots. You’ve tried sticks. But how do you get a recalcitrant child to do his or her homework?
Psychologists at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research think they may have an answer to that age-old question.
A federal judge in Hawaii is allowing a man to sue the computer-game manufacturer NCsoft for negligence — with allegations that the plaintiff grew addicted to an online game and that it consumed his life for years, Wired.com reports.
In court documents, plaintiff Craig Smallwood claims he played the game Lineage II for over 20,000 …
Roughly 2,000 people have fallen sick this summer from salmonella enteritidis, in what has become one of the biggest salmonella epidemics in years.
There are almost three times as many cases as would be expected from recent years’ trends, according to a report yesterday from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). …
In a study of the effects of fruit and veggie intake on diabetes risk, kale and cabbage seem unusually protective.
Researchers writing today in the British Medical Journal found that — in data from six previous studies …
Cigarettes are finally becoming less common in the movies. But there’s still more big-screen smoke today than there was back in 1998, when tobacco companies were banned from paying for product placement, according to a new report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
That means that public-health …
Scientists have uncovered the antidepressant mechanism behind ketamine — an anesthetic, a recreational dance-party drug, and, as it turns out, an unusually fast-acting mood booster. The scientists hope that their finding will lead to the development of other, new drugs that can help patients recover from depression faster.
Major …
Prenatal exposure to pesticides may be delaying kids’ nervous-system development, leading to attention problems later in life, a new study finds.
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley followed more than 300 California children and their mothers over several years. When the women were pregnant, the researchers took …
Kids who get wine with meals are less likely to binge as adults than their neighbors who don’t drink with the family, a new study in the journal Addiction, Research and Theory suggests. American researchers interviewed 80 Italian adolescents aged 16-18 and 80 Italian young adults aged 25-30, all from the wine-producing regions of …
Contrary to accepted wisdom, kidney donations from people whose hearts have stopped beating may, in fact, be just as good as donations from brain-dead organ donors.
That result — released today by the medical journal, Lancet — will come as good news to the tens of thousands of Americans who are currently wait-listed for a kidney …
It’s a frequent complaint that, despite all the money poured into cancer research in the last few decades, progress has only ever seemed incremental. But perhaps nowhere is this more apparent, at least in the last 10 years, than in the field of cancer screening — in the biological indicators or “biomarkers” that promise early detection …
An egg producer in Iowa is recalling 228 million eggs, as the federal government reports a multi-state outbreak of salmonella.
Infection with the bacterium salmonella enteritidis can cause fever, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Sickness usually only lasts a few days, with no long-term consequences. But the infection can be fatal if the …
