Neuroscience

A step towards gene therapy against intractable epilepsy

By delivering genes for a certain signal substance and its receptor into the brain of test animals with chronic epilepsy, a research group at Lund University in Sweden and colleagues at University of Copenhagen Denmark has ...

Health

Endurance expert: Drugs could help 'lazy' people exercise

Endurance expert suggests drugs could help 'lazy people' exerciseIn what has been described as 'doping for lazy people' a University of Kent endurance expert has advocated the use of psychoactive drugs to encourage sedentary ...

Health

Place could impact health disparities more than race

African American and white men who live in racially integrated communities and who have comparable incomes have far fewer differences when it comes to behaviors that contribute to poor health—such as physical inactivity, ...

Health

WHO aims to make Europeans start moving, stop smoking

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday launched strategies aimed at getting Europeans to start moving and stop smoking over the next decade to defuse what it termed the ticking time-bomb of sedentary lifestyles.

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