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Asking people to reduce their dietary salt intake can help them slightly lower blood pressure, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on their risk of heart attack or heart-related death, according to a new review of existing research. [...] |
That old chestnut about women always wanting to cuddle? Myth, according to a Kinsey Institute study, which finds that kissing and hugging were more important to the happiness of men than of women. The study involved 1,009 heterosexual middle-aged and [...] |
Many avid followers of the trial of Casey Anthony, the Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, were incensed by Tuesday's not-guilty verdict. Unlike most others, though, Michelle Crowder did more than just fume about it. By dinnertime, Crowder [...] |
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As it does each year in advance of the G8 meeting, the United Nations released an update on Tuesday on its progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), a series of initiatives set forth in 2000 to improve conditions for [...] |
Losing weight is hard enough. Keeping it off is even harder. Now a new study by researchers at Penn State suggests that the techniques that work for losing weight aren't necessarily the same as those that help keep you slim. [...] |
Egyptian sprout seeds blamed for a massive and deadly E. coli outbreak are still on the market and were shipped to more European countries than was previously believed, officials said Tuesday, as the E.U. announced a ban on further imports. [...] |
It's not news that a back massage feels good. But now there's clinical evidence to show just how good. In the latest study comparing the benefits of adding massage to usual care for lower back pain, researchers report that massage [...] |
The ratio of the length of a man's index finger to that of his ring finger may seem like a strange thing to measure, but new research suggests that it's linked with penis size. The lower the ratio, the longer [...] |
Children whose mothers use antidepressants during pregnancy may be more likely to develop autism than kids whose mothers do not, say researchers in California. In a study involving data on more than 1,800 children — fewer than 300 of whom [...] |
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