A lot of people in the United States claim negative reactions to wheat based products, which tends to be catagorized as celiac disease or gluten intollerance by sufferers, but which then often fail to be shown in the lab when experiments are undertaken with
With a drug war against marijuana still raging in more countries than not, the question of how long-term marijuana use effects the human brain is a pivotal question in its legalization. Although alcohol remains legal despite heaps of evidence to the dangers of long-term
Astrology is the study of how the position of the stars relative to us on Earth have a supposed effect on people here, primarily based on their date of birth. Of course, most (or all) astrological predictions are worded so vaguely that anyone looking
Aside from the numerous medical uses for marijuana (especially in regard to cancer), we have to weigh its every day risks and costs to the non-medical consumer. Doing so gives us a pretty clear picture: prohibition of marijuana makes even less sense than the
Yesterday, November 4th, midterm elections were held throughout the United States. The overarching message is that the republican party has gained political dominance: gaining control of both Congressional houses for the first time since 2006. The state level results on ballot questions is more interesting though:
Although a few stops short of a zombie apocalypse, and a bit more exciting than toxoplasmosis (which may affect 1/3 of humans), a newly found algae virus appears to be negatively impacting the cognitive abilities of at least those living in cities on the ocean.
A lack of sleep can contribute to many health problems such as blood pressure, weight gain, and even diabetes. It also can affect our memory, looks and sex life. Doctors say that most people need about 8 hours of daily (night) sleep to be up to achieving
According to a recently published report on New Scientist, the number of eggs that a woman has in her ovaries could be an indicator of a lot more than fertility. The results of the new study were published at the annual meeting of the American
There are a lot of voices that protest that all pedophiles are monsters, subhuman, or not worthy of life. But, isn’t this position forgetting that a person’s impulses do not equal their personality, does it not ignore chances for change or creating strategies help
The problem here is pervasive throughout the world of medicine and science: publication bias. This is the reason that a review of 53 studies relating to cancer drug targets only led to 6 being actually replicable. The positive results, which say that something works or
