Published in the journal Sleep, the study analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which has tracked the influences and behaviors of U.S. teenagers since 1994.
A Massachusetts man has been awarded one of the most coveted honors in the world: a Nobel Prize. Among the winners: William C. Campbell of Drew University in Madison N.J., for his work on the roundworm parasite. Tu is the first Chinese medicine laureate and the 12th female...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 has been awarded to three scientists for discoveries that have transformed treatment of malaria and a few other parasitic diseases, which afflict hundreds of millions of people each year.
The finding is part of a larger research project for the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, which began in 2007 by recruiting 4,000 pregnant women across Canada. Findings revealed that the majority of infants in the study showed lower levels of the...
A new Swedish study has revealed that tall people are more likely to develop cancer. The scientists analysed the medical records kept on 5.5 million Swedish men and women born between 1938 and 1991, including height records from the country’s national passport register.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, conducted a study to investigate the association between late bedtime hours and BMI of teenagers. They found that majority who go to bed late, gained weight relatively over the period of five years.
Silicon transistors, tiny switches that carry information on a chip, have been made smaller year after year, but they are approaching a point of physical limitation. A nanotube is an empty tube whose surfaces are created from just one layer of atomic carbon elements connected...
The finding is part of a larger research project for the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, which began in 2007 by recruiting 4,000 pregnant women across Canada. Analyzing fecal samples from babies from Vancouver, Edmonton, Manitoba and Toronto, the...
The Health Department prepared for the mosquito season by evaluating and treating with larvicide all catch basins on county and municipal roads throughout Westchester.
The goal, researches say, is to help the elderly or others who have trouble exercising, such as people suffering obesity, type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, Quartz.com reports. The study concludes that it is unrealistic to expect that all of the benefits of exercise...
The number of fighter jets that are ready to participate in the airstrikes against the jihadi groups in Syria exceed 30 warplanes, the source said on condition of anonymity.
A law firm based in Florida has filed a first attempt at a class-action lawsuit against the company, which was formed about three decades ago and since then it has been using the words “natural” and “additive-free” in marketing the products.