You are a child. Its night time and you are enfolded in the warmth of your bed. The story starts. You stare up at the ceiling and your mind fills with images. The adult voice wraps around you as warm as your dreams, and as soft as your duvet. The main character in the story, Jo, seems a bit like you. You can imagine Jo’s world. You are deep inside t
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Wanting to quit? Studies suggest that it takes almost five years and seven attempts for an average smoker to give up this dangerous habit. No person has ever started smoking just to get addicted. Some light up because they want to be “cool” while others simply want to give it a try. Unfortunately, only a small portion of the smoker’s popula
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Depression is a common disorder affecting a large portion of the world’s population. Most sufferers try to cure themselves with antidepressants, giving less consideration to the potential side effects. In a new study, researchers found a small risk of stroke among people taking antidepressant drugs. Antidepressants vary. One of the most common medic
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Vampires tend to act and think better when they sip blood. What if improving memory is as easy as performing a blood transfusion? Could the vampire tales be true? Maybe yes. In a new study by the Stanford University, researchers found that injecting blood of young mice to the older ones resulted to the improvement of memory and brain function. The study,
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They say life is short. But actually, it’s quite longer. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people living in developed countries normally live for more than twice as long as their hunter-gatherer ancestors did. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany analysed th
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What you do, what you eat and what you do not do can take a toll on your health and expose you to a wide range of illnesses, including cancer. Here are some of the most common risk factors for cancer: 1. Smoking Tobacco remains to be the largest cause of lung cancer and many other prevent
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Not missing your daily dose of multivitamin doesn’t just keep your body healthy but may also lower down your risk of cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital analysed data of 15,000 men who took multivitamins each day and compared them to those who had sugar pills. After followi
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Obesity is a growing concern all around the world, considered as one of the major causes of preventable diseases. In Australia, more than half of all adults and a quarter of children’s population are considered obese, while almost a quarter of the adult population in Britain are. While there are plenty of weight loss methods, many people choo
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How neurons communicate has been a subject of research for decades. Many facts have been established, like neurons communicate by sending signals also called nerve impulses, that the overall “firing” of neurons determines a person’s state of mind at each moment, and so on. But there has been no study that shows how exactly this neuronal &ld
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Because their immune system has not been completely developed yet, children are more at risk of contracting a variety of diseases from infections to respiratory problems as compared to adults. Thus, every parent should be prepared for any possible illness that may affect their kids. Here are 10 nasty childhood illnesses that mums and dads should be pre
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