Category: Medicine
The Mediterranean diet doesn’t benefit everyone, study says
(CNN)The Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, yet only people with higher incomes or more education, or a combination of the two, experience this benefit, found a study published Monday in the International Journal of Epidemiology. The Mediterranean diet emphasizes eating plant-based foods, including vegetables, nuts, fruits and whole grains, in addition […]
NFL Still Owes More Than Half Its Brain-Research Pledge
WASHINGTON The National Institutes of Health is ending its partnership with the NFL to study concussions and brain disease, with more than half of the $30 million the league pledged unpaid, according to ESPN. The NIH decision to let the agreement expire follows a bitter dispute in 2015 in which the NFL backed out of […]
Report: Scientists edit human embryos for first time in US
(CNN)America reportedly has moved ahead in a controversial race to tinker with human DNA — but the scientific feat is shrouded in unanswered questions. The MIT Technology Review published on Wednesday a news report about the first-known experiment to create genetically modified human embryos in the United States using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR. Shoukhrat […]
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most lucrative […]
Study suggests e-cigs are just as harmful as tobacco but there’s a catch
In April researchers at the University of Connecticut released a study that claimed e-cigarettes could be potentially as harmful as tobacco cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage. “From the results of our study, we can conclude that e-cigarettes have as much potential to cause DNA damage as unfiltered regular cigarettes,” Karteek Kadimisetty, a […]