From the Georgetown University Medical Center media release: Researchers have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital media release: A team of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has been able to study the underlying causes of AD and develop assays to…
From the UC Berkeley media release: Preschoolers can be smarter than college students at figuring out how unusual toys and gadgets work because they’re more flexible and less biased than adults in their ideas about…
From the SAGE Publications media release: Jobs for women are poorer paid, less flexible, more stressful, and offer fewer promotion opportunities than those for men, a large international study has found. Researchers say that the…
From the The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) media release: Calcium and vitamin D supplements after menopause can improve women’s cholesterol profiles. And much of that effect is tied to raising vitamin D levels, finds…
From the Institute for Research in Biomedicine media release: In 2007, in an article published in Nature Neuroscience, scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) headed by Joan Guinovart, an authority on…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine media release: A new study of Gulf War veterans found an association between poor sleep quality and reduced gray matter volume in the brain’s frontal lobe, which helps…
From the BMJ–British Medical Journal media release: People in their 80s are often prescribed drugs to ward off a stroke when the risk of a stroke is not that high and the drugs have other…
From the American Sociological Association media release: Greater childhood adversity helps to explain why black men are less healthy than white men, and some of this effect appears to operate through childhood adversity’s enduring influence…
From the Brigham Young University media release: Loads of studies over the years have shown that children who were breastfed score higher on IQ tests and perform better in school, but the reason why remained…