News tagged with causal relationship
Coffee and tea consumption reduce MRSA risk
While an apple a day may keep the doctor away, new research published in the Annals of Family Medicine say that hot tea or coffee may keep the methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, or MRSA, bug away, or at least out of ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 15, 2011 |
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More years to life and life to years through increased motivation for an active life
Regular physical activity is associated with a lower risk of suffering depression in old age. This is shown by one of the largest studies on elderly Europeans to have been carried out, by researchers at the ...
Health
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Plastics chemical linked to obesity in kids
(HealthDay) -- It's hard to imagine a pacifier or a rubber ducky making your child fat.
Overweight and Obesity
Jun 25, 2012 |
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Brain stimulation may buffer feelings of social pain
Accumulating evidence suggests that certain brain areas involved in processing physical pain may also underlie feelings of social pain. But can altering brain activity in these areas actually change how people experience ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Racial essentialism reduces creative thinking, makes people more closed-minded
New research suggests that racial stereotypes and creativity have more in common than we might think.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 07, 2013 |
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Cannabis use and the increased risk of psychosis: The debate continues
The scientific community have long debated the causal relationship between cannabis use and the risk factor for psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. Both sides of this controversial subject are put forward in two ar ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 11, 2013 |
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Surgery-related weight loss in men reverses testosterone deficiency
Low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery, a new study finds.
Medical research
Jun 04, 2011 |
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Studies show exposure to diesel exhaust may increase lung cancer mortality
Heavy diesel exhaust (DE) exposure in humans may increase the risk of dying from lung cancer, according to two papers released March 2nd by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Cancer
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Autism treatment is more than skin deep
Metal-binding agents rubbed into the skin, prescribed by some alternative practitioners for the treatment of autism, are not absorbed and therefore are unlikely to be effective at helping the body excrete excess mercury. ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Nov 13, 2012 |
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Power helps you live the good life by bringing you closer to your true self
How does being in a position of power at work, with friends, or in a romantic relationship influence well-being? While we might like to believe the stereotype that power leads to unhappiness or loneliness, new research indicates ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2013 |
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CI therapy produces increase in grey matter in brains of children with cerebral palsy
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) report that children with cerebral palsy who underwent Constraint Induced Movement therapy (CI therapy) saw a significant increase in grey matter ...
Neuroscience
Apr 23, 2013 |
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Why do older adults display more positive emotion? It might have to do with what they're looking at
Research has shown that older adults display more positive emotions and are quicker to regulate out of negative emotional states than younger adults. Given the declines in cognitive functioning and physical health that tend ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 08, 2012 |
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