Friday, December 16, 2011
GDP Up, Happiness Down
Happiness has dropped over the last two years, University of Vermont research shows.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
Food Served in Children’s Hospitals Is Largely Unhealthy
Given the obesity epidemic among the nation’s young, one would hope that children’s hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But hospitals in California fall short, with only 7 percent of entrees classified as “healthy.”
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
People with Early Alzheimer’s Disease May Be More Likely to Have Lower BMI
Studies have shown that people who are overweight in middle age are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease decades later than people at normal weight, yet researchers have also found that people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease are more likely to have a lower body mass index (BMI). A current study examines this relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and BMI. The study is published in the November 22, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Historian’s Work Gives a Glimpse of Nixon “Unplugged”
Soon historians and political junkies will have more Richard Nixon material to kick around, thanks to a UW-Madison professor emeritus who has fought for years to get the secret records of the former president made public. Stanley Kutler, the UW emeritus professor of law and history whose successful court challenge is responsible for the release of the records, says the records will be a chance to hear Nixon minus his lawyers, handlers and “spinmeisters.”
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Sounds of the Renaissance Reproduced through Acoustical Archeology
A research team used a combination of historical evidence and scientific modeling to recreate the acoustic environment of Renaissance period Venice churches.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Increased Use of Bikes for Commuting Offers Economic, Health Benefits
Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The biggest health benefit was due to replacing half of the short trips with bicycle trips during the warmest six months of the year, saving about $3.8 billion per year from avoided mortality and reduced health care costs for conditions like obesity and heart disease.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Moving Poor Women to Less Poor Neighborhoods Improves Health
Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study, the first to employ a randomized experimental design to learn about the connections between neighborhood poverty and health.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Researchers Reconstruct Genome of the Black Death
An international team—led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany—has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
New Method Isolates Best Brain Stem Cells to Treat MS
The prospect of doing human clinical trials with stem cells to treat diseases like multiple sclerosis may be growing closer, say scientists at UB and U of R who have developed a more precise way to isolate stem cells that will make myelin.
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