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Even 4,000-Year-Old Mummies Had Clogged Arteries, Study Reveals
foxnews.com | Original Article | Associated Press Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever hunt...
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Germs Are Us: Bacteria Make Us Sick. Do They Also Keep Us Alive?
The New Yorker | Original Article | by Michael Specter Helicobacter pylori may be the mostsuccessful pathogen in human history. While not as deadly as the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, cholera,...
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Infographic: We’re Living Longer, But Less Healthily Too
fastcodesign.com | Original Article | by Mark Wilson AN IMAGE YOU CAN’T UNSEE: FOR EVERY ONE YEAR OF LIFE WE GAIN, ONLY 9.5 MONTHS OF IT WILL BE IN GOOD HEALTH. When we hope to live to 100, it’s...
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Knowing You Carry a Cancer Gene
well.blogs.nytimes.com | Original Article | by Emma Pierson I jogged into the Stanford Cancer Clinic with my boyfriend, the youngest people there by two decades. We stood there sweating and holding...
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Bone Marrow ‘Frees Men of HIV Drugs’
BBC News | Original Article | by James Gallagher Two patients have been taken off their HIV drugs after bone-marrow transplants seemed to clear the virus from their bodies, doctors report. One of the...
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Study Suggests Lower Mortality Risk for People Deemed to Be Overweight
NYTimes | Original Article | by Pam Belluck A century ago, Elsie Scheel was the perfect woman. So said a 1912 article in The New York Times about how Miss Scheel, 24, was chosen by the “medical...
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An App To Let You Take Control Of Your Health Care Data
fastcoexist.com | Original Article | by Zak Stone Instead of waiting for doctor visits, Aetna’s new CarePass app will correlate all your health data to try to give you a picture of your health and...
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No More Empty Calories: The U.S. Government Gets Tough On School Snacks
fastcoexist.com | Original Article | by Ben Schiller Farewell, chocolate sandwich cookies. School vending machines and snack bars are now required to stock only healthy options, like fruit cups and...
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The Epigenetics of Fat: Altered states
The Economist | Original Article | From the Print Edition: Science and Technology Limbering up does not just help shed fat. It also changes how fatty tissue works. Exercise is the closest thing...
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Why 80% of People Worldwide Will Soon Stop Eating Wheat
realfarmacy.com | Original Article | by Natasha Longo The future of wheat is certain, and it’s toxic. There are as many health risks associated with the consumption of wheat as there are nutritional...
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Why Sociology is Necessary to Understand Online Health Behaviours
sociologicalimagination.org | Original Article | by Lisa Sugiura Despite being written in an era that pre-dated many of the digital technologies that have become important to society today, the...
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Kidney Disease, an Underestimated Killer
NYTimes | Original Article | by Jane E. Brody Kidney disease doesn’t get the attention, funding or concern associated with cancers of the breast or prostate. But it actually kills more Americans —...
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Charting The Ever-Rising Numbers Of American Obesity
fastcoexist.com | Original Article | by Zak Stone It’s hard to remember just how quickly the American obesity epidemic has swallowed up its citizens. In 1995, not a single state had more than 21% of...
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America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead
motherjones.com | Original Article | by Kevin Drum New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than...
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Copper Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
The BBC | Original Article | by James Gallagher A lifetime of too much copper in our diets may be contributing to Alzheimer's disease, US scientists say. However, research is divided, with other...
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Standing Orders: The Perils of Sitting Down
The Economist | Original Article | From the Print Edition: Science and Technology Winston Churchill knew it. Ernest Hemingway knew it. Leonardo da Vinci knew it. Every trendy office from Silicon...
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From Gunpowder to Teeth Whitener: The Science Behind Historic Uses of Urine
blogs.smithsonian.com | Original Article | by Mohi Kumar About the only use modern humans have for their urine is in health screenings. But preindustrial workers built entire industries based on the...
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The Doctor Who Made a Revolution
nybooks.com | Original Article | by Helen Epstein The Lower East Side of New York was one of the most densely populated square miles on the face of the earth in the 1890s. The photo-essayist Jacob...
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AIDS Activists Say Epidemic’s Defeat Is Within Reach
mashable.com | Original Article | by Colin Daileda AIDS, the epidemic that has ended 35 million lives and infected twice that number, may meet its own end within the lifetime of most people reading...
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The Heretic
themorningnews.org | Original Article | by Tim Doody For decades, the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD. But for one longtime, elite researcher, the promise of mind-blowing...
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