Tag: Health
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New coating could replace brominated and chlorinated flame retardants
However if you are vegan or kosher, you many not like it much.
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What I learned from the #PlasticSucks challenge
The Keep a Breast Foundation and Non Toxic Revolution challenged people to keep all the plastic they used in a week. Here's what I learned.
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The effect of urban green spaces on wellbeing is comparable to employment and marriage
Scientific evidence that living near green spaces makes you happier and improves your mental health.
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A town without wifi or cellphones is attracting the electrosensitive
It is a sensitive issue that is not taken seriously in America. Does Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity exist?
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Study shows a walk in the park fixes a fuzzy brain
The evidence keeps rolling in: when you need to clear your head, the best place to do it is out among the trees.
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This is what 2,000 calories of food looks like
We're supposed to eat about 2,000 calories a day. But what does that look like? This video shows us using different common foods.
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Tiny implant tests blood without the needle prick
Researchers say that this technology could make it cheaper and easier to deliver personalized care to the chronically ill.
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You have 100 trillion microbes on your body right now.
A lot of readers were worried to learn that resistance to antibiotics now kills more people than AIDS , but while the evolution of superbugs is certainly a problem, it's good to remember that not all bacteria are bad.
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Secret to ordering healthier food is seeing how far you have to walk to burn it off
A new study shows that if menues include how far someone has to walk to burn off their order, they'll make healthier selections.
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New York City testing sterilization for rat control
Caroline Winter at Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a new campaign aimed at controlling the rat population in New York City.
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Electric cars NOT a problem for people with pacemakers, Mayo Clinic finds
The Mayo Clinic is known around the world for being thorough and not taking any chances, so when when a patient asked if it was okay to drive a hybrid car with an implented cardiac device and couldn't find a study on it, they tested things themselves.
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Vaginal gel loaded with bee venom may destroy HIV
Scientists develop nanoparticles to destroy HIV with bee venom, before infection even occurs.
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Judge drinks Bloomberg's milkshake, rules giant soda ban illegal
To the delight of soda drinkers, a New York State Judge has ruled the ban on large soda servings illegal, calling it "arbitrary and capricious." The internet has opinions. Here are some of those.
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HIV-positive infant completely cured for first time
This makes this infant the first child, and the second person in the world to have been cured from HIV in the past 30+ years, since we've known of the virus.
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Mediterranean diet significantly lowers heart attack risk, study finds
Those following a Mediterranean diet were 30 percent less likely to have heart attacks and strokes. The results were so clear, scientists ended the study early.
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Build a a DIY climbing cave in your attic or garage
For the price of an iPad, I built something that kept us exercised and entertained for a decade.
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"Growth at all cost" turning China into "cancer villages"
Gwynn Guilford at Quartz describes how rampant pollution has created at least 400 poisoned towns.
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New Technique of 3D Printing Works With Embryonic Stem Cells
We don't have a Kinko's for Kidneys yet, but we are getting closer.
