The best time to buy peaches and nectarines is during the summer months, from November through to the end of February, when they are in season and readily available. Peaches and nectarines that appear in the shops around Christmas time
Contrary to popular belief, a mosquito bite does not hurt. It is the anticoagulant saliva that the creature injects to stop the blood from clotting that causes inflammation and pain. The new biocompatible microneedle has been designed by Suman Chakraborty
Postmenopausal women who slept nine or more hours per night were 70 percent more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than women who slept an average of seven hours a night, according to the study published in Stroke: Journal of
Yoshiro Nagao and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say that dengue, which is also known as "breakbone fever", is generally not fatal for the first time around. The researchers say that the real threat is
Teen smokers make their first serious attempt to quit after only two-and-a-half months of smoking, by the time they have smoked for 21 months they have lost confidence . . .to quit, said Jennifer O'Loughlin Universit de Montral, co-author of
The program allows people who have been in hospital for a heart attack or heart surgery to undergo a six-week walking exercise rehabilitation program wherever it's convenient, while having their heart signal, location and speed monitored in real time," said
But if sleeping too much is bad then so is sleeping too little, with getting less than 6 hours of sleep modestly increasing risk of stroke in postmenopausal women. The study, led by Jiu-Chiuan Chen, M.D., Sc.D., assistant professor of
Atherosclerosis is a disease affecting arterial blood vessels that leads to heart disease. Professor Marc Feldmann will tell scientists attending the 2008 Congress of European Pharmacological Societies (EPHAR) - hosted by the British Pharmacological Society - that drugs he and
More research is needed, but we are encouraged by the effect the drug Dimebon had on Alzheimer's patients" said Dr. Rachelle Doody, professor of neurology at BCM and lead author of the study. In the study, the authors noted that
The new way of diagnosis can also enable earlier more objective detection, and intervention. The scientists, funded by the Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust, have discovered that people with OCD and their close family members show under-activation of brain
In a piece of comment published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, they write that there is evidence that particular medications may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others because of differences in their genetic makeup. The
Utrecht University researchers say that their study focuses on detailed interactions between a mutating virus and the immune system. A research article in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology highlights the fact that HIV relies upon viral variants called "escape
In the first study, MUSC researchers along with a team from the University of Virginia Health System have found that topiramate, an effective therapeutic medication, not only decreases heavy drinking, but also cuts risk factors associated with heavy drinking. The
Lazy eye, also named amblyopia, is a condition that is the most prevalent cause of visual impairment in a single eye, affecting about six million people in the United States alone. "If not detected early enough-before seven to twelve years
Cooks have been potting meat and fish since the 16th century as a way of preserving it. Potted meat or fish is seasoned and cooked until tender, then either pounded to a paste, pressed into a pot and covered with
