Mental Health.It’s in the mind and the body, too
Something is stirring in the world of mental health and for once the news is positive. This month, British scientists began testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based...
Something is stirring in the world of mental health and for once the news is positive. This month, British scientists began testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based...
In 1953, Dr. John Clements realized something fundamental about the way the lung functions — an insight that would ultimately save the lives of millions of premature babies. The story...
“You never see ‘air pollution’ written as the cause on death certificates,” an expert once told Damian Carrington, Environment Editor at the Guardian. If it was, she suggested, the enormous...
Man’s best friends make us less stressed, more active and more content at work, owners believe. Dog walking could be key to keeping older people more active, a new study...
Antibiotic-resistant genes are being spread around the world in animal feed, according to new research that adds to fears humanity could lose one of our most important medicines. A Government-commissioned...
An article suggesting that sugar should be considered an addictive substance, and could even be on a par with abusive drugs such as cocaine, has sparked a furious backlash with...
In Durham, N.C., USA, a young Roxboro couple is eager to get back home from the hospital with their four new babies. The quadruplets, born 15 weeks premature on April...
In 1998 Charles Moore, an oceanographer, was sailing across the North Pacific when he made an unwelcome discovery. “As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have...
Environmentalists warn of the extreme danger of excessive nitrogen. An intensifying water cycle will likely cause dramatic increases – nearing 20 percent by 2100 – in the amount of nitrogen...
Neuroticism is one of the big five higher-order personality traits in the study of psychology. Data from a longitudinal study of over 500,000 people in the United Kingdom indicate that...