Tag: Health
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Wireless biosensor uses gaming to teach you to relax
The Personal Input Pod could be your little chill pill that helps you learn to master the art of relaxation.
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Loss of trees linked to higher death rates in humans
"Maybe we want to start thinking of trees as part of our public health infrastructure," says one U.S. Forest Service researcher.
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What does Instagramming our food say about modern eaters?
Is sharing photos of our food really such a bad thing, or is there more to it than just a culture of over-sharing?
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Google adds nutrition info for foods to search results
Finding details for the nutritional content of over 1,000 differed foods just got easier thanks to Google.
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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.
