First, the bad news. Allergy experts remind us that cold winters generally make for bad allergy seasons, and this winter, at least in the northeast, was brutally cold.  And now the good news: Yale immunology researcher Dr. Tao Zheng suggests a few things we can do get through what may […]

No, you don’t have jog to wear them, but it helps if you at least look like you jog once in a while. Jogger pants are in. How do we know? Because Google’s Fashion Trends for Spring, an analysis of six billion fashion related searches, puts them near the top […]

There is no scientific evidence that drinking beer keeps mosquitoes away, but does that mean it’s not worth trying? Not at all. Same deal with garlic, which has been proven, at least, to keep other people away. What does keep mosquitoes away? According to researchers at the University of Florida, […]

Calorie restriction, long believed to increase the lifespan of animals, mainly rats, could also be good for your muscles–if you’re middle-aged. How do we know? Because researchers at Chang Gung University in Taiwan thought that if calorie restriction could help reprogram metabolism, that could have a major benefit for aging muscles […]

Lyme disease was bad enough, but now, according to disease ecologists at Columbia University, deer ticks have expanded their parasitic payload to include a malaria-like parasite called Babesia microti, which causes babesiosis when transmitted to humans. What’s babesiosis? It’s a lot like Lyme disease, with a flu-like illness, but it can […]

What’s better for warding off a relapse of depression: “maintenance antidepressant medication” or mindfulness-based therapy. And the answer is…neither.  Based on the results of a study conducted at the University of Oxford, both practices seem to do the job equally well. Science Daily reports on the research, for which 424 adults […]

We’ll worry about aging bodies another day. Today, we pass along, from Science Daily, a list eight nutrients that experts at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) believe will protect an aging from, well, aging. 1. Cocoa Flavanols: Cocoa flavanols, yes they’re found in cocoa, have long been know to improve […]

It’s not true, as is often said, that people (yes, women) with wide hips make lousy runners. Now comes a researcher at Boston University whose research suggests that wide-hipsters can run just as well as narrow-hipsters. A BU Research story reports that scientists at the school recruited 38 undergraduate men and […]

No, it’s not better to look good than to feel good, especially if looking good requires muscle-building supplements that contain creatine or androstenedione, two additives that may increase the risk of testicular cancer. How do we know? Because a Brown University news release reports that researchers at the school interviewed nearly 900 […]

Night owls may be the cool people, but according to a new study by researchers at the Korea University College of Medicine, they are also the unhealthy people. Writing in the New York Times, Nicholas Bakalar reports that the researchers recruited 1,620 men and women, ages 47 to 59, and surveyed […]