Health & Wellness

Details: Written by: Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University

Why Breast Cancer Eats, Sleeps, Then Wakes Up And Grows Scientists have long puzzled over how breast cancer can suddenly reappear, often with a vengeance, months, or years after treatment is complete.

Details: Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University

Weight Gain Fears Sway Some Women In Birth Control Choices Concerns about weight gain may be driving contraception choices for women, a new study suggests. Women who are overweight or obese are less likely to use the birth control pill and other hormonal contraceptive methods.

Details: Written by: Karen Black, University of Rochester

Are E-cigarettes As Bad For Your Teeth and Gums As Regular Cigarettes?
Electronic cigarettes are as equally damaging to gums and teeth as conventional cigarettes.

Details: Written by: InnerSelf Staff

Why Heat Is An Urban Killer & What You Can Do About It Among the many human, environmental, and economic impacts of global climate change, heat stress itself is perhaps underestimated as a major challenge to health and sustainability.

Details: Written by: University of Melbourne

Can Biofortified Rice Ease Hidden Hunger It Causes? Rice is the staple food of billions of people throughout the developing world. But beyond easing hunger pains and providing carbohydrates for energy, it has little nutritional value.

Details: Written by: Vanessa Wasta, Johns Hopkins University

This New Drug Helps Radiation Kill Prostate Cancer An experimental drug appears to pack a one-two punch against some prostate cancers, significantly slowing the increase of cancer cells and making them more vulnerable to radiation.

Details: Written by: Marla Paul, Northwestern University

Alzheimer’s Didn’t Cause Memory Loss For These 90-year-olds Scientists looked at the brains of eight people older than 90 who had superior memories until their deaths. They were surprised to find widespread and dense Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles that...

Details: Written by: Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona

Whether Flu Will Kill You May Depend On Your Birth Year Your birth year predicts—to a certain extent—how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, new research suggests.

Details: Written by: Stanford University

Trauma Affects The Brains Of Boys And Girls In Opposite Ways Brain scans of children and teenagers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show structural differences between the sexes in one part of the insula

Details: Written by: Jim Dryden, Washington University in St. Louis

This Cell Fat Discovery Could Ease Inflammation and Complications For Diabetics Inflammation is one of the main reasons why people with diabetes experience heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems, and other, related complications. Now a surprise finding identifies a possible trigger of chronic inflammation.

Details: Written by: Michelle Ma, University of Washington

The Mislabeling Of Seafood Is Rampant Around The World Recent studies estimate up to 30 percent of seafood in restaurants and supermarkets is actually something other than what is listed on the menu or label.

Details: Written by: Deborah Bach, University of Washington

How Just One Phone Call Cuts Alcohol Abuse Among Soldiers A new study suggests that telephone-based intervention geared specifically to military members shows promise at helping those who are struggling with alcohol abuse.

Details: Written by: Julia Short, Cardiff University

Electronics At Bedtime Rob Kids Of Sleep Children who use electronic devices at bedtime have more than double the risk of not getting enough sleep during the night compared to those who don’t use them.

Details: Written by: Ron Roth, Ph.D.

Balanced Approach to Healing: It's Not Always Either/Or Formulas are fine for solving math problems or for figuring out the stress factors in steel beams, but they don't help very much when it comes to healing and prayer. In most cases, you would do better to follow a creative amalgam of common sense, intuition, and balance.

Details: Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University

There Is A Wrong Way To Talk About Alzheimer’s Disease Experts suggest avoiding war metaphors, such as “attacking” beta amyloid, when talking about Alzheimer’s disease. While war comparisons can motivate efforts to deal with a health issue, this type of language and messaging can also create fear and stigma...

Details: Written by: Nicola Jones, University of Warwick

Low Vitamin D May Raise Risk Of Bladder Cancer A review of seven research studies suggests a vitamin D deficiency might increase the risk of bladder cancer.

Details: Written by: Gerry Everding, Washington University in St. Louis

How Chickens Took Over The World The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest known physical evidence for the introduction of domesticated chickens to the continent of Africa.

Details: Written by: Brett Israel, University of California, Berkeley

A Mom’s Exposure To Toxic Chemicals Shows Up In Their Newborn Low-income and Latina pregnant women in a recent study had widespread exposure to environmental pollutants. In addition, many of the toxins showed up at even higher levels in their newborns

Details: Written by: Morgan Sherburne, University of Florida

Can Exercise Prevent Age-related Hearing Loss? Everyone knows that exercise helps keep weight off and is good for your heart. Now, scientists say it also appears to prevent age-related hearing loss in mice.

Details: Written by: Texas A&M University

Yes, You Really Could Be Scared To Death Can a Halloween fright actually scare you to death? Yes, says cardiologist John P. Erwin III.

Details: Written by: Kristina Sauerwein, Washington University in St. Louis

Oxygen Therapy Doesn’t Benefit Everyone With COPD A new study indicates that supplemental oxygen does not benefit a large group of patients with COPD: those with moderately low levels of oxygen in the blood.