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Can 'Blue Zones' Help Turn Back the Biological Clock?

by (author unknown), NPR Topics: Health Care

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add a comment | Jun 08, 2008    


Big hearts 'have genetic problem'

by (author unknown), BBC News | Health | World Edition

Scientists say they have found a new genetic basis for why some people develop a dangerously enlarged heart....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


The science of sarcasm (not that you care)

by By DAN HURLEY, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Scientists have identified a part of the brain that decodes visual, and social, contexts....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


Climate bill stalls in Senate

by By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Even if the climate-change bill's supporters had pushed it through the Senate, President George W. Bush had threatened to veto the legislation....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


3 years later, knees made for dancing

by By JANE E. BRODY, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Artificial knees, while certainly an improvement over severely arthritic ones, are not like normal, healthy knees....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


The future is now? Pretty soon, at least

by By JOHN TIERNEY, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Ray Kurzweil is a futurist with a track record who makes his predictions using what he calls the Law of Accelerating Returns....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


Red wine found to be more potent than thought at extending lifespan

by By NICHOLAS WADE, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Some scientists are already taking resveratrol, an ingredient in some red wines, in capsule form but others believe it is far too early to take the drug until there is better data on its safety and effectiveness....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


Zapping teenage torment

by By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Removing hair, like getting braces, is making the transition from vanity to necessity for increasingly more parents and their girls and boys....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


Those with a family history of colon cancer have better prognosis

by By TARA PARKER-POPE, Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

A new study shows that patients whose parents or siblings had colorectal cancer face about a 1-in-10 chance of developing the disease, compared with 1 in 20 for those with no family history. They also are at lower risk of dying from the disease if they develop it....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008    


70 years later, Freud gets therapy college in Vienna

by (author unknown), Health & Science - International Herald Tribune

Admissions to the university, named after the Austrian pioneer of psychoanalysis, have soared since it opened in late 2005....

add a comment | Jun 07, 2008