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- Antibiotics drastically overprescribed for sore throats, bronchitis
- Fighting fat with Botox
- Study links moderate activity to lower breast cancer risk
- Is the human brain capable of identifying a fake smile?
- Creative app for dementia careworkers
- Cancer survivors in rural areas forgo health care because of cost
- How Instagram can ruin your dinner
- Neglect of 'science communication environment' puts vaccine acceptance at risk
- Facebook and Twitter may yield clues to preventing the spread of disease
- Reading literary fiction improves 'mind-reading' skills
- Component of citrus fruits blocks formation of kidney cysts
- Wealth inequality can promote cooperation
- Five regular meals a day reduce obesity risk among adolescents
- Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists
- Investing in employees' health leads to increased productivity
| Antibiotics drastically overprescribed for sore throats, bronchitis Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:52 AM PDT A vast majority of people who see their doctors for sore throats or acute bronchitis receive antibiotics, yet only a small percentage should, according to analyses of two major national surveys. Those illnesses usually are caused by viruses, and antibiotics -- which only treat bacterial infections -- do not help.  |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:49 AM PDT Researchers have had promising experimental results from using Botox as a weight loss tool in rats. The research group hopes to win approval for human testing in the near future.  |
| Study links moderate activity to lower breast cancer risk Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:08 AM PDT A large new American Cancer Society study adds to increasing evidence that physical activity reduces the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.  |
| Is the human brain capable of identifying a fake smile? Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:06 AM PDT Since Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, much has been said about what lies behind her smile. Now, researchers have discovered how far this attention-grabbing expression confuses our emotion recognition and makes us perceive a face as happy, even if it is not. Human beings deduce others´ state of mind from their facial expressions.  |
| Creative app for dementia careworkers Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:06 AM PDT Dementia is an ageing-related condition affecting mental acuity and memory. Incidence doubles in a population for every five years over the age of 65 years, so that almost one fifth of those living to 85 can expect to have the condition and a third of those over the age of 95 will likely be affected. As the population ages through better nutrition and healthcare, we can expect absolute numbers of people with dementia to continue to rise.  |
| Cancer survivors in rural areas forgo health care because of cost Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:01 AM PDT Older cancer survivors living in rural areas are more likely to forgo medical and dental care because of financial concerns compared with older cancer survivors living in urban areas.  |
| How Instagram can ruin your dinner Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:27 AM PDT Warning Instagrammers: you might want to stop taking so many pictures of your food. New research finds that looking at too many pictures of food can actually make it less enjoyable to eat.  |
| Neglect of 'science communication environment' puts vaccine acceptance at risk Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:26 AM PDT Failure to use science of science communication contributed to public controversy over HPV vaccine and could provoke similar conflict over other childhood vaccines.  |
| Facebook and Twitter may yield clues to preventing the spread of disease Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:26 AM PDT Facebook and Twitter could provide vital clues to control infectious diseases by using mathematical models to understand how we respond socially to biological contagions. Authors reviewed social factors in epidemiology, and have suggested that the biological spread of diseases is intertwined with how society responds to those contagions.  |
| Reading literary fiction improves 'mind-reading' skills Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:26 AM PDT Researchers have published a paper demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships -- and functional societies. These researchers performed five experiments to measure the effect of reading literary fiction on participants' Theory of Mind, the complex social skill of "mind-reading" to understand others' mental states.  |
| Component of citrus fruits blocks formation of kidney cysts Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:57 AM PDT A new study published has identified that a component of grapefruit and other citrus fruits, naringenin, successfully blocks the formation of kidney cysts.  |
| Wealth inequality can promote cooperation Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:57 AM PDT Unequal access to resources can promote cooperation, shows a new study based on evolutionary game theory.  |
| Five regular meals a day reduce obesity risk among adolescents Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:54 AM PDT A regular eating pattern may protect adolescents from obesity, according to a population-based study with more than 4,000 participants. When eating five meals - breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks - a day, even those with a genetic predisposition to obesity had no higher body mass index (BMI) than their controls. The collection of the data on the study population began prenatally, and the participants were followed up until the age of 16.  |
| Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:30 AM PDT Young Swiss men who say that they believe in God are less likely to smoke cigarettes or pot or take ecstasy pills than Swiss men of the same age group who describe themselves as atheists. Belief is a protective factor against addictive behaviour. This is the conclusion reached by a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.  |
| Investing in employees' health leads to increased productivity Posted: 02 Oct 2013 10:13 AM PDT Workplace health promotion programs that improve employee health can lead to significant increases in productivity — and associated cost savings, reports a new study.  |
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