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When an individual develops a respiratory infection, antibiotics are often prescribed, despite the fact that many are caused by viruses that are not susceptible...

Placentophagy, the practice of eating the placenta post birth, cannot be proven to provide any health benefits to the mother and may actually be...

Researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a gene and a serotonin receptor...

Women have a small but important amount of testosterone in their bodies. Sina Radke with the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at...

Press releases from research universities are the source of exaggerated claims of health benefits from new health research and not the news media. This...

People that are over 65 years of age that cannot balance on one leg for at least 20 seconds are at higher risks of...

The average person is more willing to cause themselves pain in order to receive a monetary reward than they are to cause another person...

Vitamin B and folic acid do not reduce a person’s potential for suffering memory loss from age, dementia, or Alzheimer’s disease. This is the...

Following a low-fat, low-calorie, and low-carbohydrate diet that your doctor gave you is just as effective in reducing your weight as any of the...

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a common infection of the nerves, which is caused by a virus. It triggers a painful rash or small...

Cats often bring home little presents for the humans that care for them. A mouse, a bird, a spider, a parasite. The Examiner spoke...

A new study that identifies the cause of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease as the breakdown in function of the tau protein in...