health

03/07/2015 - 13:25

The most obvious reason to study the oldest people alive today is for clues to healthy ageing. Supercentenarians often “seem to be born... →

31/05/2015 - 16:28

Shapira, a veteran of the Israeli high-tech field, has watched his 17-year-old son try new therapies and treatments for his stammer to no... →

29/05/2015 - 15:40

Does a body good Questions such as these inspired Komlos back in the 1980s as he pioneered the field of anthropometric history. It explores... →

14/04/2015 - 18:01

The team then created mice in which the gene for ERBB2 was knocked out only in cardiomyocytes. This had a severe impact: The mice had... →

30/03/2015 - 18:23

What you can do, though, is examine whether individual women’s recollections of their pain change with time. A Swedish study took more than... →

29/03/2015 - 12:41

With the push of a button, patients with the Vectorious implant would get a pressure reading from their heart’s left atrium, which will... →

29/03/2015 - 12:06

Experts who attended the conference said there was a technological and scientific feasibility to promoting the invention and that if it... →

18/03/2015 - 14:28

QBI Founding Director Professor Perry Bartlett said the discovery – a result of ‘game-changing’ work performed at the Queensland Brain... →

12/03/2015 - 13:26

Seeking Better Alternatives Retail medical clinics are becoming more accessible and ubiquitous (opening up in Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS... →

04/02/2015 - 14:16

Forgotten food The same is true of the food they eat. One of the key studies involved a former musician and a former banker, both of whom... →

30/01/2015 - 14:39

The idea that poor eyesight is primarily genetic had never really rung true for me, anyway. Without my glasses, I literally couldn’t tell a... →

25/01/2015 - 13:48

In a study published in 2008, the University of California’s Sara Mednick – author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life – and her colleagues... →

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