However, marketers have recently begun using unusual visual identifiers that have little, if anything, to do with the product. For example, market research…
Residents of neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty, lower education, and more female-headed families are less likely than others to exercise, according…
Child health researchers from the University of Nottingham, UK, carried out a detailed analysis of 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and…
Sea turtle nesting attempts are impeded by lost or abandoned logs that accumulate along the country’s coastal beaches. Logs are floated downriver from forests…
Using U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission data, the researchers found nearly 40,000 older adults were injured on escalators between 1991 and 2005. The most…
The study, which appears in the March 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Disease, confirmed the suspected close link between the two most common diseases of young…
Rather than procrastinating, men may delay going to the doctor so that they can watch a health problem to see if it will fix itself. Indeed, a picture emerges…
A new study by an international team of researchers from Cardiff University and University of Maryland has revealed how the humble cup of tea could well be an…
A commonly used medication that prevents blood clots from forming may also prevent existing clots from damaging delicate vein walls — and may accelerate…
The results of the study appear in the March 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. “The results of this study send a strong signal to…
Average costs were six-and-a-half times higher than for people under 65 and 16 times higher than for children under four.When researchers from the Faculty of…
The researchers looked at slime moulds – microscopic single-cell organisms or amoebae that are forced to cooperate with one another when food is in short…
Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the…
Stephen Hamilton, an aquatic ecologist at Michigan State University, studied nine streams that flowed through cities, forests and agricultural land in the…
Inviting researchers to attend institutional review board sessions designed to approve these same investigators’ requests to conduct research involving human…
The three-year study, which is being conducted by Jenny Billings, Ferhana Hashem and Jan Macvarish at the University’s Centre for Health Services Studies, will…
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