Understanding non-homeostatic eating — or eating that is driven more by palatability, habit and food…
Month: March 2016
Active social life associated with well-being in life
Staying active socially despite health-related challenges appears to help lessen the decline in well-being people…
Human influence on climate dates back to 1930s, new research finds
Humans have triggered the last 16 record-breaking hot years experienced on Earth (up to 2014),…
Doctors aren’t diagnosing or treating most cases of prediabetes, study finds
Less than one-quarter of patients who met the criteria for prediabetes received drug or lifestyle…
HIV targets tissue macrophages, researchers demonstrates
HIV infects and reproduces in macrophages, large white blood cells found in the liver, brain…
Geochemists show experimental verification of principle of detailed balance
Geochemists have developed and demonstrated a technique for assessing the validity of a principle that…
Design research can improve patient experiences of radiotherapy
Patients risk experiencing anxiety and fear when health care does not meet individual patients’ needs….
Bird communication: Chirping with syntax
People communicate meaning by combining words according to syntactic rules. But this ability is not…
Slower evolution and climate change drove ichthyosaurs to extinction
Ichthyosaurs — shark-like marine reptiles from the time of dinosaurs — were driven to extinction…
Cardiovascular safety of obesity treatment naltrexone-bupropion uncertain
The cardiovascular safety of the obesity treatment naltrexone-bupropion remains uncertain because of the unanticipated early…