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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The biggest health benefit was due to replacing half of the short trips with bicycle trips during the warmest six months of the year, saving about $3.8 billion per year from avoided mortality and reduced health care costs for conditions like obesity and heart disease.
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Craig Jones on 11/02 at 09:36 AM
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study, the first to employ a randomized experimental design to learn about the connections between neighborhood poverty and health.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
An international team—led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany—has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history.
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Craig Jones on 10/13 at 03:05 PM
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
The prospect of doing human clinical trials with stem cells to treat diseases like multiple sclerosis may be growing closer, say scientists at UB and U of R who have developed a more precise way to isolate stem cells that will make myelin.
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Craig Jones on 10/13 at 01:28 PM
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called “magic mushrooms,” was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it.
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Craig Jones on 09/29 at 01:41 PM
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Older people with low blood levels of vitamin B12 markers may be more likely to have lower brain volumes and have problems with their thinking skills, according to researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The results of the study are published in the Sept. 27 issue of Neurology.
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Craig Jones on 09/27 at 08:46 AM
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Taking probiotics seems to provide both children and adults with a mild degree of protection against many upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) including the common cold, according to a new systematic review.
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Craig Jones on 09/19 at 09:58 AM
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Over the past decade, many studies and news media reports have suggested that action video games such as Medal of Honor or Unreal Tournament improve a variety of perceptual and cognitive abilities. But in a paper published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, Walter Boot, an assistant professor in Florida State University’s Department of Psychology, critically reevaluates those claims.
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Craig Jones on 09/16 at 09:40 AM
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Mounting casualities in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars might seem like a reason for people to denounce the war and demand a way out. But a new “sunk-cost” psychology study finds that highlighting casualties before asking for opinions on these wars actually sways people toward a pro-war attitude. This sunk-cost mindset may also explain why losers stay in stock market.
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Craig Jones on 09/08 at 01:09 PM
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
An international team of researchers believes it has identified the wild yeast that, in the age of sail, apparently traveled more than 7,000 miles to make a fortuitous microbial match that today underpins the $250 billion a year lager beer industry.
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Craig Jones on 08/23 at 10:36 AM
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