The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE by psychologists Geoffrey Brookshire and Daniel Casasanto of The New School for Social Research in New York. Motivation, …
Taking aspirin to reduce blood-clotting is “as safe and just as effective as warfarin”, The Daily Telegraph has today reported. Both drugs have long been used to prevent potentially dangerous blood clots, but there is much debate over which is bett…
Autism is a wide spectrum disorder, this means it affects people in a wide variety of ways, and how children respond to interventions also varies, researchers from Columbia University in New York reported in the journal Pediatrics. The authors explaine…
About 39% of all Americans who are currently classed as slightly overweight are probably, in fact, obese, researchers from of Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York reported in the journal PloS One. Using just BMI (body mass index) to gauge how fat…
Survival rates of brain cancer continue to remain low, despite the substantial advances in detection, diagnosis, and treating tumors within the brian. This low survival rate is partly due to high levels of resistance to treatment. According to a study…
Statins given to female patients are as effective in preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular events as they are for men, researchers from Boston and New York reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Cardiovascular events inclu…
Statins given to female patients are as effective in preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular events as they are for men, researchers from Boston and New York reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Cardiovascular events inclu…
According to a study published in the current issue of the journal Cancer Prevention Research, aspirin should be assessed for its ability to prevent cervical cancer developing in women infected with HIV. Aspirin has the potential to provide considerab…
Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to prevent development of cervica…
The stereotype of the old forgetful person whose memory often fails him is widely held, but the reason for its appearance was never really pinpointed. Much like gray hair and wrinkles, it was just thought to be part of growing old. Now new research fr…
