Archive: 21/07/2015
The ends count starting at birth: Newborns use first and last syllables to recognize words
Most of us think of infants as tiny beings whose main business is to sleep, suck and cry, without much awareness of what is happening around them. It may come as somewhat of a surprise, then, to know that newborn brains are ...
Jul 21, 2015
Foods with added phosphate cause spike in blood, even in people with healthy kidneys
Phosphates artificially added to dairy and cereal products appear to cause bigger spikes in blood phosphorus levels than naturally occurring phosphates, potentially putting harmful stress on kidneys. Too much dietary phosphate ...
Jul 21, 2015
Universal flu vaccine in the works
Each year, scientists create an influenza (flu) vaccine that protects against a few specific influenza strains that researchers predict are going to be the most common during that year. Now, a new study shows that scientists ...
Jul 21, 2015
Common chemicals may act together to increase cancer risk, study finds
Common environmental chemicals assumed to be safe at low doses may act separately or together to disrupt human tissues in ways that eventually lead to cancer, according to a task force of nearly 200 scientists from 28 countries, ...
Jul 21, 2015