Archive: 11/01/2012
Can a tax on soft drinks help reduce obesity?
(Medical Xpress) -- Can obesity be taxed away? Several UConn professors think that taxing fattening foods can help but not in the way many people would expect. Instead of trying to make unhealthy foods prohibitively ...
Jan 11, 2012
Test your memory in world's biggest experiment
Today researchers at the University of Cambridge launch what could be the worlds biggest ever memory experiment.
Jan 11, 2012
People mimic each other, but we aren't chameleons
(Medical Xpress) -- Its easy to pick up on the movements that other people makescratching your head, crossing your legs. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Jan 11, 2012
Global study sheds light on role of exercise, cars and televisions on the risk of heart attacks
A worldwide study has shown that physical activity during work and leisure time significantly lowers the risk of heart attacks in both developed and developing countries. Ownership of a car and a television was linked to ...
Jan 11, 2012
Smokers 'salivate' to cigarettes: The physiological reactions to associated images
It is commonly known that, much like Pavlov's dogs salivating in response to hearing the bell they associate with dinner time, smokers feel cravings and have physiological reactions to pictures they associate with smoking. ...
Jan 11, 2012
Precancer markers identified in airway epithelium cells of healthy smokers
Smoking may be associated with the development of molecular features of cancer in the large airway epithelium. In the small airway epithelium, molecular cancerization is associated with development of chronic obstructive ...
Jan 11, 2012
Ganetespib showed activity in KRAS-mutant NSCLC as monotherapy and in combinations
The investigational drug ganetespib, a synthetic second-generation Hsp90 inhibitor, slowed the growth of cancer cells taken from non-small cell lung cancer tumors with a mutation in the KRAS gene. The drug was even more active ...
Jan 11, 2012