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Analyzing earworms: Why does that tune get stuck in your head?
Date: Nov-05-2016What makes a tune so catchy that it won't leave your brain? New research analyzes the data and answers this age old question. The brainworm is tamed.
What is a Multiple Gestation Pregnancy?
Date: Nov-05-2016What are the symptoms of a multiple gestation pregnancy and what prenatal care is available? Learn about the risks, complications, and delivery options.
Type 2 diabetes caused by buildup of toxic fat, study suggests
Date: Nov-04-2016New study suggests a certain toxic metabolite might be responsible for type 2 diabetes. This might explain why some normal-weight people develop diabetes.
Finding shift work hard to handle? Your genes could be to blame
Date: Nov-04-2016New study has uncovered a gene variation that is more common among shift workers who experience exhaustion as a result of their irregular working patterns.
Diabetes: Potential protein target identified for reversing insulin resistance
Date: Nov-04-2016Removing or blocking the protein Gal3 reverses insulin resistance and glucose intolerance in mouse models of obesity and diabetes, study shows.
Worrying about health increases heart disease risk
Date: Nov-04-2016A new study looks at the consequences of health anxiety on heart health. Excessive worrying over one's health might increase the risk of heart disease.
Twenty cigarettes daily for 1 year equals 150 lung cell mutations
Date: Nov-04-2016Although smoking's links with cancer are well known, how tobacco affects DNA in far flung organs was not understood. New analysis digs into the genes.
Genes for dreaming, deep sleep identified in new study
Date: Nov-03-2016Researchers have identified two genes in mice that control dreaming and deep sleep. The finding could yield new treatments for human sleep disorders.
Smoking more hazardous for HIV patients than the virus itself
Date: Nov-03-2016Smoking may reduce life expectancy for HIV patients more than the HIV itself does. Researchers call for new strategies to help people with HIV to quit.
Alzheimer's disease: New imaging compound may improve earlier diagnosis
Date: Nov-03-2016New compound that better identifies amyloid clumps could be used in PET scans to detect early brain changes and track treatment in Alzheimer's disease.
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