Public Health and Issues
Stanford Ways to Make Healthy Foods Appealing
Most people want to eat healthier, but efforts to encourage healthy eating by providing nutrition information have not changed habits much. A new study suggests that labels...
Breaking the “Break” With over-drinking linked to Neurobiological...
We’ve all seen these people. Maybe at one point in time we’ve actually been these people: messy, falling-down drunk, slurring and incoherent, precariously close to...
Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in
Shutterstock Miles B. Markus, University of the Witwatersrand Some people suffer from repeated attacks of malaria. These can occur weeks to months or longer after contracting...
Behaviour of social media fanatics similar to drug users, gamblers
The decision-making attributes of excessive social media users has been likened to those of drug addicts and gamblers in an explosive new study designed to raise awareness about...
Discreet contraception for world’s poorest countries
Innovative microneedle technology is being developed as an effective, pain-free and discreet method of delivering contraception across the world’s poorest countries, thanks to...
New saliva-based test detects malaria before symptoms appear
An easy-to-use saliva test to screen for the parasite that causes malaria has been developed by a team of researchers led by a University of Florida scientist. The non-invasive...
Researchers Find Clue to Epidemics In “Bursty” Social Behavior
Researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, have developed a mathematical model that could cure the potential to...
A new way to treat but not manage diabetes is on its way
To treat diabetes directly, rather than manage its symptoms, doctors need a way to get drugs to cells that produce insulin. The key, Stanford researchers report, may be those...
How capitalism ruined our relationship with bacteria
Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA Norah Campbell, Trinity College Dublin and Cormac Deane, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology There are many rational reasons...
Less is better and Gains : Social media use increases depression and loneliness
In the first experimental study of Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram use, psychologist Melissa G. Hunt showed a causal link between time spent on the platforms and decreased...