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New Method for Conducting Scientific Studies Developed

More and more, investigators working in social studies are figuring out that the established approach of conducting research in this field may no longer be sufficiently relevant. As such, they are developing new ways of keeping track of individuals in study groups. Until now, the norm has been to put together a la...

30 April 2011
04:26 GMT

Higher Stroke Risks Found for Sleep Apnea Patients

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), has been conducting research into how obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is related to stroke risks in the general population for quite some time. Recently, experts managed to conclude and publish their report, which...

8 April 2010
09:06 GMT

The Link Between Body Piercing and Psychopathology

Over recent years, some studies have been conducted in more countries, in an attempt to make more sense of the correlations that exist between body piercing behavior and psychopathological symptoms in the people doing this. These investigations have produced mixed results, and so a new research was conducted into the...

29 March 2010
10:48 GMT

Black Hole Winds Shape Entire Galaxies

For many years now, astronomers have known that large galaxies grow at the same time the supermassive black holes at their cores do. This correlation has made many propose that a link may exist between the two, in the sense that these events influence each other. But thus far no definitive proof of this has been obta...

4 March 2010
09:06 GMT

Happiness Keeps Heart Diseases Away

Researchers in Europe discovered a unique independent relationship between positive emotions and coronary heart disease, for the first time ever. Appearing in the latest issue of the leading cardiology publication European Heart Journal, the study shows that happiness, content and enthusiasm are among the emotions th...

18 February 2010
08:47 GMT

Smoking, a Factor for Developing Alzheimer's

Over the past few years, a large number of scientific studies on the possible correlations between Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and smoking have been published. These researches have now been reviewed by a team of experts from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), who have been able to conclude that ...

1 February 2010
15:01 GMT

Exposure to Tobacco May Increase Risk of ADHD

Scientists at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have determined in a new investigation that children who are prenatally exposed to high levels of lead or tobacco smoke run a much higher risk than others of developing ADHD. The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a condition that many chil...

23 November 2009
08:42 GMT

Tropical and Northern-Hemisphere Climates Linked

Experts at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) have recently demonstrated that variations in climate over the Northern Hemisphere in the past 12,000 years are tightly linked to changes recorded all the way to the tropics, and as far as Peru. In a research paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Scien...

25 September 2009
17:01 GMT


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