A study says 1-in-4 U.S. adults reports feeling "extreme stress" this time of year, but a childhood expert suggests ways to develop holiday resilience. Nefertiti Bruce, early childhood specialist and national trainer at the Devereux ...
Boys who left school or college during a recession experienced better health later in life than if they left in a boom, but not girls, British researchers say. Philipp Hessel and Mauricio Avendano of London School of Economics Health said ...
U.S. researchers say parents worried about an adolescent's weight should have a conversation about healthy lifestyle rather than size. A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, found conversations ...
Tags: health, healthy lifestyle, conversation with kids, adolescent's weight
A father's diet before conception plays a crucial role in the health of his offspring, researchers in Canada suggest. Sarah Kimmins, a researcher at McGill University in Montreal, said the study focused on vitamin B9, also known as ...
The combination of tomato, olive oil, garlic and onion in a sofrito increases the amount of polyphenols and carotenoids, which are bioactive compounds that may help to prevent cardiovascular diseases and cancer, according to new research ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Children of highly stressed parents have a body mass index about 2 percent higher than those whose parents are mellow, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Ketan Shankardass, a social epidemiologist with St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and ...
Tags: Stressed Parents, Heavier Kids
U.S. public health efforts since the 1970s to get people to lower their blood pressure and quit smoking have helped reduce stroke deaths, researchers say. "The decline in stroke deaths is one of the greatest public health achievements of ...
Did You Know? In earlier times, the main function of a bedside table was to contain a chamber pot. It was often referred to as a commode. A bedside table plays a significant role to complete the bedroom furnishing. It comes in handy to ...
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One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
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The difference between the healthiest diets and the least healthy diets is $1.50 a day, U.S. researchers found. Lead author Mayuree Rao, a junior research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Health, Medicine
Siemens Healthcare will introduce a new angiography system optimized for broad clinical utilization at the 99th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 1 December through December 6 2013 ...
U.S. adults are striving for five fruit and vegetables a day fewer times this year than last year, a Gallup Poll indicates. Americans' eating habits deteriorated in 2013, as fewer adults reported eating healthy all day in every month so ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, eating habits
DuPont Nutrition & Health has unveiled CHOOZIT FNR 1 (Flavor No Rind), a new starter culture that allows artisanal flavor development in specialty cheeses in the absence of a rind, while reducing ripening time and ensuring consistency. ...
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The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) in the UK has identified the presence of livestock-associated Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in poultry on a farm in East Anglia, England. The agency ...
Tags: East Anglia Farm, Infectious Bacteria, UK
While some people may think their minds are being numbed by scrolling through images of cats playing piano, or dogs eating biscuits, one computer is doing the same and getting smarter. A computer cluster running the so-called the Never ...
Tags: Computers, 'Common Sense', Image Analysis