Why aren't they hibernating?
What do aging, telomeres and torpor have in common? It may be that torpor slows the process of aging.
Aging is directly linked to telomere lengths. Telomeres, the caps on the end of …
Last week I attended a conference in primary care, internal medicine, sponsored by Harvard Medical School. I attended many interesting lectures one of which was given by Sadia Haider, MD who is an instructor in …
I just finished reading an article in New Scientist about the amazing properties of the naked mole rat. These underground creatures are nearly blind, hairless and wrinkled animals that live in colonies similar to ants …
Yes they do according to medical research out of Japan. What is interesting is that fit women sweat differently than fit men with unfit women sweating the least amount – something that can have serious …
Lorcaserin, the diet pill that has been in clinical trials, failed to get FDA approval this week. The New England Journal of Medicine had recently published an article about it and up until September, it …
17,000 doctors in the U.S. are being paid by the pharmaceuticals to speak to other medical providers about the benefits of a drug they are promoting. Generally, these are practicing physicians who can be paid …
Medical researchers from the University of Columbia in Vancouver, Canada have called for the halt of codeine use in infants and children. Citing the different rates of metabolism in the body that has led to …
According to Dr. Abraham Verghese, the senior associate chairman for the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford Univerity, today’s physicians are woefully inadequate in their ability to diagnose by touching, looking and listening and his goal …
Given the growing problem of bedbug infestation in this country, more people are searching for effective pesticide treatment that is safe to use in the home.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a database of …
This is a great video but it really needs to be slower – so be sure to hit the pause button in order to read the material.
As we age, our respiratory tract becomes less elastic and more rigid including the tiny air sacs where oxygen exchange occurs. In addition, our chest wall becomes a little more rigid, not expanding in the …
