Howe Joseph
12 Foods Draining Your Brainpower
How many spoonfuls of high-fructose corn syrup did you eat yesterday?Oh, you don’t recall slurping down any of the hyper-sweet corn extract? Well, you...
Study Supports Cancer Link With Height
A Swedish study of five million people appears to support the theory that height and cancer risk are linked.The study found that taller people...
An Obscure Disease Affects 1 in 10 Women
Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Padma Lakshmi, and another 176 million women suffer from an often painful, debilitating disease that few people have heard of—including...
Nigeria Reaches Polio ‘Milestone’
Nigeria has been removed from the list of polio endemic countries in what is being regarded as a "milestone" on the quest to eradicate...
Why This Year’s Flu Shot is Different Than Last
Give flu vaccine another chance: This year's version got a recipe change that should make it more effective after last winter's misery from a...
Patch May Boost Repair After Heart Attack
A prototype patch could help the repair the damage caused by a heart attack, scientists say.The early work, carried out on mice and pigs,...
Mediterranean Diet May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
The Mediterranean diet may be able to add "reduces risk of breast cancer" to its long list of health benefits, according to a new...
America’s First-to-Worst Dark Chocolates—Ranked!
No one will dispute the fact that chocolate tastes good. But there’s a lot of argument over whether chocolate is good for you. Now,...
GM Embryos ‘Essential’, Says Report
It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists and policy experts.
A Hinxton Group report...
Diabetes Drug May Help in Leukaemia
A drug used to treat diabetes could help in the fight against blood cancer, early research in the journal Nature suggests.
An international team of...