Obesity is becoming more frequent around the world, despite the health hazards and higher mortality associated with the diseases and ailments that accompany it (comorbidities).
A good night's sleep can solve all sorts of problems - but scientists have now discovered new evidence that sleeping well may make you less vulnerable to infection.
New insights into the importance of early-life factors on lung health have been unveiled in the most comprehensive study of its kind, led by the Universities of Essex and Bristol.
Adding evidence to the importance of early development, a new study links neutral maternal behaviour toward infants with an epigenetic change in children related to the stress response.
Researchers revealed in a recent study, a higher risk of developing thinking issues later in life is related with high blood pressure abnormalities during pregnancy.
London [UK]/ Boston (Massachusetts) [US], March 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): Now in its 6th year, in partnership with the ABM Leadership Alliance, this qualitative and quantitative research is based on input from 279 ABM heads and practitioners from across the world.
Researchers at Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
Neural stem cells that are quiescent or latent in some parts of the adult brain may one day become active and create new neurons. Yet, nothing is currently known about the change from quiescence to proliferation.
"We don't yet have a good handle on the symptoms and mortality risk," said Emily Wroblewski, an assistant professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
High blood pressure and diabetes are two important risk factors for stroke that can be managed by medication, decreasing a person's risk," said study author George Howard, DrPH, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. "Our findings show that their association with