Death risk from vitamins
Millions of people every day take some sort of vitamin, mineral or both and without a doubt every single one of them believes that these capsules or tablets are actually doing them good and why not? After all it is what they have been told over a long period of time.
But it seems that there [...]
Fatty diet helps against epilepsy
Epilepsy has for many years been treated by drugs, this has a varied amount of success due to the severity of the neurological disorder. In the most severe cases there has been little hope of the patient being to carry out a normal life style and in some cases being hospitalised for long periods of [...]
April 15, 2008Brain scanners that predict decisions
In a study by John-Dylan Haynes a neuroscientist, of the Max Planck Institute it has been found that our brains already make up our minds when it comes to decisions, even before we have had time think about it.
By using brain scans to see the brain working, it has been noticed that the brain begins [...]
Sea winds are a health hazard
There is nothing like walking along the beach taking the sea breeze as travels unhindered across the sea, which is what many people feel like when they visit the beach. But the reality is somewhat different to the dream, as researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, [...]
March 27, 2008Can humans have super powers?
It is the thing that fuels many sci fi books and films which cover the subject of people with extra powers, but there has been some research into how the brain works and it is believed that maybe the brain is capable of extra powers after all.
The case for this comes from the study of [...]
Sleeping at work improves productivity
This may not be what any employer would like to hear, but researchers from the University of Dusseldorf in Germany have been looking into the effects of taking a nap while being at work. They have found that by having a little cat nap during the working can help improve memory and mental performance as [...]
March 20, 2008Smoking pleasure not happiness
For non smokers watching those that like to have the odd cigarette every now and then would imagine that the smokers actually get some sort of happiness out of it. But recent research from the Peninsula Medical School in the UK would appear to have put this down as a myth, as it seem that [...]
March 14, 2008Clean homes good for Asthma
You cannot escape the adverts for cleaning materials in the press and on TV, while at the supermarket there is a whole isle devoted to cleaning materials. But could there be a link between the increase in bleaches, paint strippers, carpet cleaners, and all of those other cleaners and the increase of the child asthma.
In [...]
Link between cannabis and Alzheimer’s
Research in the medicinal properties of cannabis has come up with what could be a serious treatment for a very debilitating disease, Alzheimer’s which suffers gradually lose memory, which can be terrible for both the sufferer and the family too.
However researchers from Spain and Israel have found that one of the compounds out of the [...]
Smokers quit after finding out the age of their lungs
A British study that has been published in the British Medical Journal, into effects of smoking has found that there could be a cheap, easy and very effective of way of enabling people to stop smoking. This is when a smoker is told by their doctor how old their lungs have got due the habit, [...]
March 5, 2008Marijuana not as bad as we think
Over the years there has been much research into Marijuana and how it can be used as a medicine etc, but in recent studies being carried out by the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, they have been looking into the actual effects of the drug on teenagers.
The first thing to come out in the study [...]
Frogs skin to help diabetics
A team of scientists studying the small South American Paradoxical frog have found that it may have some unique properties that could help to make millions of peoples lives much better and it is all down to the unique properties that can be found on the frog’s skin.
As the frogs get older they shrink slightly, [...]
BBC reporter takes drugs on show
It looks as if there could be some trouble brewing as a new TV programme will show a BBC reporter take drugs in front of the camera. The programme will be called “Should I Smoke Dope?” which is due to be aired on BBC Three later on in the year is aimed at sixteen to [...]
February 27, 2008How cocaine affects your brain
Research being done at the Trinity College in Dublin, has been testing exactly how cocaine works in the brain, their research has found that there is a biological reason as to why some people become addicted to the drug, while others seem to be able to carry on a normal life.
With the use of scans [...]
People are like sheep
Some fascinating research has been done by the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds; they have been looking into how crowds or groups of people are manipulated. Do they work as team of individuals?
Considering that for a long time we have always been considered different to the rest of the animals on [...]
Marijuana used for medical purposes
The use of marijuana for medical purposes is being endorsed by doctors from of the leading medical organisations in the US, the American College of Physicians; this is the second largest medical organisation in America. Its governing body has an approved a statement which will claim that evidence has been found that marijuana can help [...]
February 12, 2008New HIV receptor found
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have discovered some interesting aspects on how the HIV virus actually attacks the human body. This groundbreaking discovering could lead the way to finding some new and even more effective treatments for the disease.
What they found is a completely new receptor in the human body, [...]
Arguing at home is the key to longer life
Now in some cases this may be a bit of a nightmare, but according to researchers from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health have been looking into the relationships of nearly two hundred couples.
The study showed that they were split into four groups:
Where both partners expressed anger when they felt unfairly attacked
Where neither [...]
Medication that can cure loneliness
Researchers at the University of Illinois have been working on how being isolated from people can bring on stress and memory loss, this is said to be due to an enzyme that helps the brain, without this the brain triggers feeling of being lonely.
But if this enzyme could be replaced somehow the reverse effect could [...]
Human gene traced back 500 million years
As most of us probably already knew, it seems that researchers at the Chicago university has finally been able to trace the human genome right back to its very origins and it’s in a pond!
Despite the many versions that we have heard for the evolution of man, there has always been a missing link that [...]