Articles in the Category: Health and Medicine
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 02 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
Fixing Food with Science
Cookbook author David Joachim shows how his book The Science Of Good Food can fix most any kitchen mess. And in this video you’ll learn how to turn a basic custard into a delicious orange flan.
Joachim says you can turn to the book when you are baking a cake and something goes wrong. He’ll...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
Rose Ellen’s Genetic Assist
A cancer patient is helping doctors at the Mayo Clinic unlock a few genetic secrets. Rose Ellen Heley allowed oncologists to decode her DNA and map her genome.
Mayo Clinic researchers have learned something about her bone marrow cancer in the process that could help others suffering from cancer.
Dr....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 16th, 2010 | No Comments
Science Determines King Tut’s Killer
For years, people thought the Egyptian king was murdered but new DNA evidence is pointing to a different killer. the 3,300-year-old pharaoh King Tutankhamun likely died from complications of a broken leg that was exacerbated by malaria, according to a two-year study of his mummy and family members.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments
The Love Hormone Field Test
It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no.
Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Plants, Video on 02 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Scientists Invent Rice That Doesn’t Need Cooking
Agricultural scientists in India say they have developed a variety of rice that requires no cooking and can be eaten simply after being soaked in water.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs.
Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments
The Growling Uncertainty of Science
One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it.
From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 01 4th, 2010 | No Comments
2 Cancer Codes Cracked
The International Cancer Genome Project is the largest genetic undertaking since the Human Genome Project. It is trying to sequence the DNA of 50 types of cancer over the next few years.
Researchers decoded the genome for lung and skin cancer in mid December. CBC reports.
Fun fact: Scientists discovered...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 31st, 2009 | No Comments
Fizzy Science of Champagne
For centuries, champagne makers considered pent-up carbon dioxide a hazard that could make their bottles explode. But the bubbles are so pleasing to the palette, it’s no wonder 322 million bottles of champagne were sold world-wide last year. WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz reports.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, RawAudio, SciClips, Science & Entertainment on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments
The Real Grey’s Anatomy
The hit ABC television drama Grey’s Anatomy revolves around the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital and follows the lives of surgical residents. Portland, Oregon medical correspondent and author Andrew Holtz wondered where the line between fact and fiction is being drawn when it comes to training...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 12 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Gaga for Zhu Zhu
The world has gone nuts for five robotic hamsters, called Zhu Zhu Pets. While the cute and cuddly creatures race around on a surfboard, skateboard or in a car, the “it” toy of 2009 has some heavy metals that are within safety limits but beg the question: Do toys need to have these toxic...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 11 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Tired from Tryptophan
Did you fall into a turkey coma? Well, if you did don’t blame it on the much-maligned tryptophan. It was more likely something else, like all the starch in stuffing or sugars in candied yams that made you need a nap.
New research is finding that carbohydrate-rich meals help tryptophan cross the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mammogram Recommendations Pit Science Against Policy
A long-standing debate over younger women getting annual breast cancer screening is reigniting this week, after an independent medical panel changed its recommendations.
Confusion, fear and politics are swirling around the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. The task force now recommends...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies
Scientists within the most venerated science organizations in the United States are mounting rebellions against those organizations and their somewhat unified policy on the science of climate change–that it is real and being driven by human activities.
A group of several hundred of 47,000 physicists...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video on 11 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Beer’s Organileptic Chemistry
Beer has been flavoring human culture for at least 9,000 years. During that time, the rich brew has transformed and evolved to satisfy the complex palates of the time.
Now, science is a driving force in making beer. And, understanding some of the chemistry can refine color, aroma and flavor.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Video on 10 25th, 2009 | No Comments
H1N1 Flu Now a National Emergency
As the numbers of Americans sickened by the H1N1 swine flu skyrockets into the millions, President Obama declared the flu a national emergency.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Video on 10 14th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Anti-swine Flu Suit
Japanese menswear company Haruyama Trading has developed a suit that it claims can protect wearers from the swine flu.
For only about $600, white-collar workers in Tokyo and other crowded Japanese cities will help reduce the spread of the H1N1 flu virus, which has already infected more than 350,000...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah
A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, SciLebs, Science & Entertainment, economics on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Ig Nobel Prizes Irreverent in Science
While most serious scientists are wringing their hands, wondering who will win the Nobel prizes, a different group of scientists is celebrating the lighter–but just as bona fide–side of science.
The 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony shined a silly look at science at Harvard last...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 7th, 2009 | No Comments
Nobel Prizes Crown Science Winners
Every year (since 1901) the Nobel Foundation has been honoring the final wish of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
This year the three science prizes went to nine scientists who overcame a big biology problem, harnessed light and unraveled the mechanism at the heart of a cell.
Nobel Prize for...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciClips on 10 5th, 2009 | No Comments
H1N1 Vaccine Brings Big Shot Program
After months of speculation and waiting for the vaccine to grow, the new swine flu virus killer is ready and rolling out across the country this week.
The CDC hopes that at least 150 million Americans will get the shot or nasal spray to fight the H1N1 flu virus that began its worldwide rampage in April.
Some...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Diseases, Energy, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics and Science, SciClips on 10 1st, 2009 | No Comments
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Global Warming Trial
The biggest business lobby in the U.S. is pushing for the EPA to hold a public hearing to debate the science of global warming.
The move, calling for the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st Century, is proving too much for some chamber members, from big utilities to Nike and Johnson & Johnson.
Yesterday,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, SciClips, Video on 09 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mouthrinses Awash in Controversy
New research coming from Johnson & Johnson shows that Listerine antiseptic not only kills germs that cause bad breath and gum disease but also could prevent those germs from entering the bloodstream where they can lead to diabetes, heart disease and pneumonia.
This follows on the heels of an Australian...
