Price, stigma may keep patients from using insurance for STDs
Barriers to getting tested or treated for sexually transmitted disease (STD) need to be lowered, a U.S. study concludes. In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act – better known as Obamacare –...
Fiber in fruits and breads tied to healthy aging
Eating lots of fiber-rich fruits and breads may be one way to live longer without developing chronic diseases, an Australian study suggests. Researchers followed about 1,600 adults aged 49 or older...
Second study this week links whole grains with long life
Bumping up whole grain intake even slightly may lower the risk of death from heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases, according to review published Tuesday in The BMJ. The new report echoes...
Too little sleep linked to health problems in children, teens
Updated sleep recommendations for children and teens point to the benefits of getting enough sleep and the dangers of getting too little. “At least 25 percent of 12-year-olds get less than the...
Scientists use climate, population changes to predict diseases
British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases – those such as Ebola and Zika that jump from animals to humans – based on changes in climate....
Turns out, climate change hurts globalized economy too
Globalization has made the economic production far more vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather, including heat stress on workers, according to a new study. The analysis by the Potsdam...
Drugs may not deserve reputations for sleep disruption
Drug labels sometimes warn that the medications may disrupt sleep, but a new study suggests these drugs don’t cause troubled sleep for most people. The researchers found “barely”...
Turning that dangerous gas into harmless stone… but there’s one problem!
Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is frightening; it is one of the reasons our planet is degrading. That dangerous toxic gas, contributing to a great extent in climate change could now be turned into a...
