You probably know this ritual: the kids are in bed, the television is on, and you reach for the chips or the ice cream. Before long, it's 1 a.m., and you are dreading your alarm clock in the morning as you guiltily pick up ...
Mar 8, 2016
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Skimping on sleep has long been associated with overeating, poor food choices and weight gain. Now a new study shows how sleep loss initiates this process, amplifying and extending blood levels of a chemical signal that enhances ...
Feb 29, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Exeter and UCL (University College London) have identified a gene which can be used to predict how susceptible a young person is to the mind-altering effects of smoking cannabis. The finding ...
Feb 16, 2016
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A recent cross-sectional study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham explored a new pathway between short sleep—less than seven hours—and obesity.
Dec 14, 2015
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Is short stature a problem? In particular, when it does not result from an underlying disease, does it justify giving a child nightly injections of human growth hormone?
Dec 10, 2015
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Short people have several health advantages over tall people, including lower risk for cancer and heart disease, and longer life expectancy. But there's at least one health-related downside to being small: the odds of getting ...
Nov 16, 2015
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Short bursts of high-intensity exercise improved cholesterol, blood sugar and weight among Type 2 diabetes patients more than 30 minutes of sustained, lower-intensity exercise, according to research presented at the American ...
Nov 10, 2015
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Chronic short sleep duration of 6 hours or less or increasing average sleeping time by 2 hours or more over a period of several years increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in middle-aged and older women, reports ...
Nov 2, 2015
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Researchers from the Tumour Suppression Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by Manuel Serrano, have discovered the molecular mechanisms that determine cancer predisposition in patients with ...
Oct 16, 2015
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Scientists at the research Institute MIRA at the University of Twente have been working for some time on a new technique to detect breast cancer. The technique, based on the physical principle of photoacoustics, has been ...
Jul 14, 2015
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