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A new study carried out at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Columbia University in New York shows that former smokers or nonsmokers have increased chances of having strokes as a result of inhaling cigarette smoke exhaled by other people. The research team also points out that being married to a smoke... |
29 July 2008
05:53 GMT |
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"Think it and it might just become true!" This is just one way to describe the findings detailed by researchers of the University of Rochester's Medical Center, who have recently discovered that men who really believe that they have a low chance of developing a cardiovascular disease have in fact three times les... |
14 July 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Who could ever have imagined that getting rich was such a terrible thing? According to recent research, a wealthy lifestyle is actually the worst thing that could possible happen to us, so you'd better stop playing the lottery and wish you really didn't get that promotion at work, because living the good li... |
22 May 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Aspirin has long been attributed all sorts of miraculous properties. Ever since the little pills containing acetylsalicylic acid (see if you can say that three times in a row without blinking) entered our lives more than a century ago, their popularity rose and fell depending on the latest medical research that point... |
14 May 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Tea is not exactly the kind of thing you'd expect to show gender disparity - however, the latest research indicated that the millennia-old drink of mixed hot water and herbs has a documented tendency of proving more beneficial for women than for men - at least when it comes to its documented property of helping ... |
12 May 2008
09:42 GMT |
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It is a vivid controversy: to eat or not to eat eggs. While a recent research has showed that consuming eggs reduces the risk of breast cancer in women by 24%, thanks to choline, a new one published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals that middle-aged men who eat seven or more eggs hurry up to their... |
12 April 2008
04:30 GMT |
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We know that the music you prefer tells a lot about you. A recent Dutch research has found that those amateurs of hit parade music, hip hop and R&B, appeared to be more polite and more extroverted, while rockers, on average, were more introverted, sloppier, but more open-minded to different experiences. Those who lov... |
20 February 2008
05:48 GMT |
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This will leave your brain clean, but not washed! A "vacuum cleaner" for the brain could fix the clogged arteries of stroke victims, preventing the attack from having permanent serious consequences.Strokes usually take place when blood vessels nurturing the brain are blocked, and the oxygen-demanding neurons die. The... |
30 January 2008
04:21 GMT |
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The minds of the two sexes are so differently fired: men want sex, women want money ...The difference is present also when we are planning how to reach for something, according to a new research at Faculty of Health's School of Kinesiology, York University, made by associate professor Lauren Sergio and Dr. Diana... |
14 April 2007
06:43 GMT |
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It is crystal clear: drugs blow away your mind! Literally. A new research at UT Southwestern Medical Center reveals that higher rates of amphetamine and cocaine useD by young adults increase significantly their risk of stroke, with amphetamine linked to a greater danger. The research focused on over 8,300 stroke pati... |
3 April 2007
09:43 GMT |
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Aspirin is a naturally occurring chemical found in the willow bark (in fact, its chemical name, acetylsalicylic acid, comes from "Salix", willow in Latin), whose properties were known for centuries by South American Indians. It is present in a lot of drugs sold without prescription and its use is increasingly growing... |
13 March 2007
10:40 GMT |
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Chocolate has been found to present various health benefits, related to sex life, mood, blood, heart and brain. And this is not all. "The health benefits of epicatechin, a compound found in cocoa, are so striking that it may rival penicillin and anesthesia in terms of importance to public health," signaled Marina Mur... |
12 March 2007
05:22 GMT |
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