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The pursuit of happiness and health is a popular endeavour, as the preponderance of self-help books would attest. Yet it is also fraught. Despite ample advice from experts, individuals regularly engage in activities that may only have short-term benefit for well-being, or even backfire. The search for the heart of well-being – that is, a nucleus from which other aspects […]
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It is encouraging to see greater attention in the media to the issue of climate change and its effects on the life-support systems of the planet. The link between breast cancer and the environment, however, is being overlooked. Premenopausal women exposed to high levels of air pollution have a 30 per cent increased risk for breast cancer, according to a […]
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Christmas is supposed to be a magical time. The season is full of gifts, bright lights, family, friends and food, and sentimentality. It brings back memories of days long since passed. But for parents? Well, for parents the Christmas season can be stressful. Scratch that: It can be hella hard because we are all trying to live up to some impossible ideal […]
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The enormous adaptability of the cholera bacterium explains why it is able to claim so many victims. Professor Ariane Briegel from the Leiden Institute of Biology has now discovered that this adaptability is due to rapid sensory changes in the bacterium. Her research has been published in PNAS. The Vibrio cholerae bacterium is the cause of cholera, a devastating illness […]
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Last week, Prince William revealed that his firstborn, Prince George, loves dancing. And the young prince — third in line to the throne — is taking ballet. We are mush imagining this class. We can totally picture noted danceophile Princess Diana, George’s late grandmother, beaming down from the heavens. The revelation about George came when Prince William and his wife, […]
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If you’re an ’80s babe, you’ve probably watched Saved by the Bell. The sitcom — which followed the fictional lives of Zack Morris, Kelly Kapowski, Samuel "Screech" Powers, Albert Clifford "A.C." Slater, Jessica "Jessie" Myrtle Spano, and Lisa Marie Turtle — was a staple in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and today, it remains a series most of us remember […]
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Joanna and Chip Gaines — former Fixer Upper stars — have their hands full with far more than home improvements these days. The couple welcomed son Crew on June 21, and the photos Joanna has been posting on social media tell a happy (if sleep-deprived) story of life with a newborn all over again. “Evidence of a late night up with […]
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(HealthDay)—A salmonella outbreak linked to melons and fruit salad mixes continues to expand, say officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, 70 people have been sickened across seven states after eating fruit salad mixes that included pre-cut watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and cut fruit medley products from the Caito Foods facility in Indianapolis, the CDC […]
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You go for a walk in the woods, return home, and later notice a tiny new bump behind your ear. A closer look reveals the bump to be a passenger from the forest. You have a tick. Now what? The first step is to remove that sucker with tweezers, said University Distinguished Professor of Biology Kim Lewis, who directs Northeastern’s Antimicrobial […]
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If a headline says research shows a diet rich in a food ‘could help fight cancer’ then our advice would be to read on with a critical eye. Vitamin C is a great example of this. In fact, headlines from last year could have you believe that eating oranges might cure cancer. This media interest stemmed from two studies testing […]
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