Flu prevention is important for everyone, but here’s another reason to make sure to get vaccinated: in a study of childhood flu deaths from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, researchers found that otherwise healthy kids can succumb to …
Contrary to popular wisdom, eating at McDonald’s isn’t exactly cheap, costing some $28 for a family of four. Which might help explain the results of a recent study from the University of California, Davis, which found that …
On Sunday, Nov. 6, tens of thousands of participants of the annual ING New York City Marathon will hurtle through the city’s five boroughs. That’s a lot of potential for fun — and for pain.
For the first time, cystic fibrosis patients may have a drug that treats the underlying cause of their disease rather than just its symptoms. According to a new clinical trial, the experimental drug helped patients breathe …
Could the effects of aging be delayed or even prevented simply by clearing the body of old cells? Scientists report in Nature that they were able to do just that in a study of mice.
In the largest safety study conducted to date, researchers have found that drugs used by millions of children to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, do not raise the risk of serious heart problems.
Billions of people rely on rice as a staple crop. Now here’s another reason to grow it: scientists have figured out a way to use the grain to produce a key component of human blood.
In a recent study of high school students in Philadelphia, researchers found that 14% were obese. The good news is that three-quarters of these obese teens said they were trying to lose weight. The bad news is they appeared to be …
Major psychological trauma may increase the risk of developing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to Mayo Clinic researchers, who presented data from a new study on Monday.
(Updated) If you’ve ever bought anything off Amazon or looked at restaurant reviews on Yelp, you’re intimately familiar with the power of word of mouth. Marketers know it too, at least as far as its persuasive effect on the …
A blood-pumping device commonly referred to as the Berlin Heart, which bridges children to transplant while they’re awaiting a heart, is facing imminent approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s already approved in …
When TV host Giuliana Rancic was recently diagnosed with breast cancer after two rounds of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), cancer specialists were widely quoted as saying that there’s no evidence that the large hormone doses …
Blink and it’s gone. The ephemeral McRib sandwich appears at McDonald’s infrequently and only for a limited time. If you haven’t indulged in one yet, here’s what you’re missing: azodicarbonamide, ammonium sulfate and polysorbate …
