Harald Takle worked with a team of researchers from NOFIMA (the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Norway, to carry out the…
Physicians who prescribe erectile dysfunction drugs for their male patients should be sure to discuss the importance of safer sex practices, even with older…
A worldwide survey of more than 136,000 people in 132 countries included questions about happiness and income, and the results reveal that while life…
Mammoths used to roam modern-day Russia and North America, but are now extinct–and there's evidence that around 15,000 years ago, early hunters had a hand in…
Researchers at the University at Buffalo conducting a neighborhood-scaled exploratory study that tested the association between the food environment, the built…
The research was conducted in the region around Seattle, Wash., using data from 3,675 women who were enrolled in the Omega Study, an investigation of the…
For more than a century, neuroscientists believed that the brains of humans and other mammals differed from the brains of other animals, such as birds (and so…
The quality of online information about the most common sports medicine diagnoses varies widely, according to a study published in the July 2010 issue of the…
“We focused on a socioeconomic position factor such as educational level and health factors such as limitations to daily activity. By studying this…
Dr. Caroline Kabiru and a team of researcher from the African Population and Health Research Center , Nairobi, Kenya conducted the study. They noted, “Overall,…
In an article appearing in the magazine Physics Today this month, Goff examines the science of soccer and explains how the world's greatest players are able to…
A new academic study led by UCLA scientists has found that even brief exposure to ultrafine pollution particles near a Los Angeles freeway is potent enough to…
Then, as now, the cascading events were originally begun by human disruption of ecosystems, a new study concludes, but around 15,000 years ago the problem was…
A Case Western Reserve University pilot study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing overturns that thinking, finding that visually impaired people…
Memory and brain scan tests were performed on 85 people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who were part of a larger study called the Alzheimer’s Disease…
The researchers tested groups of young adults (aged 17-28) and community-dwelling older adults (aged 60-86) – meaning they live in the community, rather than…