Seeing pictures of food affects taste perception
Just looking at images of food can change our taste experience, according to research published Mar. 14 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Mar 14, 2012
Archive: 14/03/2012
Controversial study promoting psychic ability debunked
In response to a 2011 study suggesting the existence of precognition, or the ability to predict future events using psychic powers, a new group of researchers report that attempts to replicate the previous results were unsuccessful. ...
Mar 14, 2012
Health groups issue cervical cancer screening guidelines
The American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) have released new guidelines for the prevention and early detection ...
Mar 14, 2012
Delivery of a small full-term infant puts mothers at risk for heart disease
Delivering a full-term baby of small birth weight has been shown to be an independent indicator of later heart disease for the mother, and as equivalent in risk as high blood pressure and diabetes. Researchers at the University ...
Mar 14, 2012
Doctors practicing healthy lifestyles more likely to preach it to patients
Physicians who have more healthy habits are more likely than doctors without such habits to recommend five important lifestyle modifications to patients, including eating healthy, limiting sodium, maintaining a healthy weight, ...
Mar 14, 2012
CDC study shows outbreaks linked to imported foods increasing
Foodborne disease outbreaks caused by imported food appeared to rise in 2009 and 2010, and nearly half of the outbreaks implicated foods imported from areas which previously had not been associated with outbreaks, according ...
Mar 14, 2012
Deaths from gastroenteritis doubles
The number of people who died from gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines that causes vomiting and diarrhea) more than doubled from 1999 to 2007. The findings of this study will be presented today at ...
Mar 14, 2012
Loss of appetite deciphered in brain cell circuit
The meal is pushed way, untouched. Loss of appetite can be a fleeting queasiness or continue to the point of emaciation. While it's felt in the gut, more is going on inside the head. New findings are emerging about brain ...
Mar 14, 2012
