Measles: new efforts needed to stop an old disease
New diseases grab headlines. The latest influenza scare – H7N9 – has prompted much speculation about the direction the virus might take. And rightly...
Clinical Trials for Cellulite Treatment on the Horizon
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Projected to start in the second half of 2013, researchers at Stony Brook University plan to begin phase IIa placebo-controlled...
Alternative therapies may help lower blood pressure
DALLAS, Texas — Alternative therapies such as aerobic exercise, resistance or strength training, and isometric hand grip exercises may help reduce your blood pressure,...
Scientists reverse memory loss in animal brain cells
HOUSTON - Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have taken a major step in their efforts to help...
Drinking chocolate milk may help myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) diagnosis
There is one more reason to love chocolates. A researcher at the Makati Medical Center (MMC) discovered that a chocolate milk drink makes visualization...
People must be the focus of health and health research
Putting people at the center of health and health research: A paradigm shift for a holistic healthcare and healthcare system
“Health technology often missed out...
A Drink a Day Raises Cancer Risk, Study Says
How many of us enjoy a glass or two of wine at dinner? How many of us have read that moderate drinking of red...
Online treatment of postpartum depression, maybe efficient – study
Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to...
Lost your keys? Your cat? The brain can rapidly mobilize a search party
BERKELEY — A contact lens on the bathroom floor, an escaped hamster in the backyard, a car key in a bed of gravel: How...
Researchers find out why some stress is good for you
BERKELEY — Overworked and stressed out? Look on the bright side. Some stress is good for you.
“You always think about stress as a really...