According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 15.3 percent of women and 10.1 percent of men regularly feel very tired or exhausted in the United States.
Tiredness can cause an array of problems. For example, around 1 in 25 adult drivers report falling asleep at the wheel...
Researchers report the success of a clinical trial that tested the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation for slowing function-related cognitive decline. This enables people affected by Alzheimer’s to keep living independently for longer.
The success of a recent phase I clinical trial seems to indicate that a brain implant could slow...
Popular wisdom abounds in sayings about how friendships are first formed, such as “birds of a feather flock together” and “friends are on the same wavelength.”
And, as it turns out, there is more than just a grain of truth to these age-old concepts.
A new study led by Carolyn Parkinson —...
Simply standing for 6 hours per day instead of sitting down can help you to lose weight, research suggests.
More and more people are opting for standing desks at the office to reduce the adverse health effects of sedentarism.
Studies are increasingly pointing out the various ways in which excessive sedentary time...
There is increasing evidence that we are what our mothers ate during pregnancy; if they consumed a high-fat diet, then we might suffer the consequences, be it obesity or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. A new study, however, may have uncovered a way to prevent the latter.
Researchers discovered that a compound...
Haphephobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by a fear of being touched. Other names for haphephobia include chiraptophobia, aphenphosmphobia, and thixophobia.
Being touched by strangers or without consent can make many people uncomfortable. However, if the fear is intense, appears even when touched by family or friends, and if it causes...
By studying interactions between testosterone and the immune system in male mice, scientists from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, have discovered a molecule that seems to protect against multiple sclerosis.
In a paper on the findings that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team notes...
New research published in the journal Oncogene uncovers a protein that helps breast cancer to spread. The findings may lead to new therapies for invasive breast cancer.
Breast cancer (shown here, under the microscope) needs a specific protein in order to spread, reveals new research.
Despite many scientific advances, breast cancer remains...
New insights from research on how insulin exits the bloodstream to metabolize glucose in cells could lead to new treatments for insulin resistance, a condition that usually precedes type 2 diabetes.
Tracking insulin’s journey through the bloodstream could yield new treatments for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
In a paper that...
New research published in the journal Aging finds a compound that stops cancer cells from spreading by starving them of vitamin B-2. The findings may revolutionize traditional chemotherapy.
Current chemotherapy has a wide range of serious side effects, but that may be about to change, suggests new research.
A team of British-based...
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