Even if you are not so gullible, your brain still works a certain way, making associations that create vulnerability to being easily fooled, or fooling yourself.
More than 50 percent of women experience at least one urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetimes, and despite the drugs doled out by Big Pharma, as many as 50 percent of those women experience a recurrence within one year, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Mental health workers will improve their understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity through a new resource to be funded by the State Government and delivered by The University of Western Australia.
UCSF Study Shows Digital Cognitive Training Improves Brain Function and Behavior for People with Schizophrenia
The National Heart Foundation of Australia has urged those Australians who take statins to reduce their cholesterol to keep taking their medication until they can discuss any concerns with their doctor.
The Australian community could be saving a maximum of $4.2billion if all heart attack survivors began taking fish oil supplements, a new report by Deloitte Access Economics (commissioned by the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia) claims.
Desk-confined employees would be able to ward off considerable health risks if they take a break every 20 minutes and flex some muscles.
A new technique that could provide a prosthetic limb that moves and responds like an actual flesh and blood limb has been a major goal for researchers and physicians for years. Now a joint project by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has found a way for amputees to gain better control over their prosthetics with help from their own nervous systems.
Taking vitamin D while still young may be good for the body in the long run. Results from a study conducted by the University of Zurich have confirmed that sufficient amounts of vitamin D taken consistently are necessary to maintain bone health.
Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North Carolina State University professor.
A new study jointly conducted by researchers at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the University of Toronto showed that those who have more were most likely to take advantage of their better status while those who have just enough seemed more content and willing to give way, and even share when necessary.
Bats have been hosting flu virus for many years, according to a new research findings published on Monday by scientists working for the U.S.-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Influenza, commonly known as flu, affects as many as one in five Americans each year, while more than 200,000 get hospitalized due to seasonal flu-related complications, yet many still do not get vaccinated, reports said.
Did you know that vaccinating your cat with the typical, recommended feline vaccination schedule may lead to your furry friend developing cancer?
What if it was possible to eliminate much of the world's otherwise very-slowly-biodegrading plastic waste using a natural Amazonian fungus?
Before, to be diagnosed with the big C seemed to be an implied death sentence. Patients even go through a stage of self-denial. Who can blame them? Conventional medicine paints a rather bleak future for cancer patients and the remedy it offers does nothing to improve their quality of life, nausea and falling hair not to mention.
The expression "he/she died of a broken heart" is often used to describe someone who has died after having been depressed for a long time. Usually that person drinks or drugs himself/herself to death after a desperate period of loss, bitter disappointment, or environmentally induced depression.
After thousands of years Western medicine is finally recognising the benefits of meditation to treat diseases including mental illness. Under the disguise of MBCT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, meditation is being accepted as a way to treat various conditions in the field of mental illnesses.
Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found - work that may improve the effectiveness of combination treatments that include drugs like Avastin.
Mitochondria, tiny structures within each cell that regulate metabolism and energy use, may be a promising new target for cancer therapy, according to a new study.
Reyna Robles was always the first one up and the last one to bed: she possessed more than enough steam to come home from her full-time job, prepare a meal for her husband and children, take her dogs for walk and help her kids with homework.
Jet lag dogs even the most frequent of flyers. Here's how to keep yourself well-rested and ready to take in the sights.
The treatment of ankylosing spondylitis typically involves the use of medications to reduce inflammation and/or suppress immunity to stop progression of the disease, physical therapy, and exercise. Physical therapy and exercise help improve posture, spine mobility, and lung capacity.
Here's another development in science that seems to have been taken from science fiction. Chemists at LMU Munich in collaboration with colleagues from Berkeley and Bordeaux have shown that it is possible to inhibit pain sensitive neurons using an agent that acts as a photosensitive switch.
American scientists reported on Wednesday what they called an important step that could prevent sudden deaths due to ventricular arrhythmia or abnormal heartbeat that usually occur during the early morning hours.
Recent studies have considered obesity as a modern epidemic, with many adverse effects on a person’s health, such that researchers continue to focus on issues relating to obesity particularly the role of exercise in maintaining a healthy body.
Parents who exercise a vaccine exemption for their children are often ridiculed for putting their own children and others at risk.
Scientists have developed nano-robots that can deliver deadly payloads to unhealthy cells.
A woman in New Zealand accidentally lost her baby after she took a medicine given to her by the staff at the hospital. The accidental abortion of her pregnancy was believed to be caused by that drug, otherwise known as Misoprostol.
There's the new method being touted across the media: Test tube hamburgers made from thin strips of meat grown in a nutrient vat laced with bovine fetus stem cells. Yumm!
