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  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Two Booze Studies Serve Up Sobering News

    We're reminded that booze and artificially sweetened mixers sometimes can be a problematic combo. The study that figured this out has been around for a while, but it's being given fresh attention thanks to the June edition of the University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter, which offers news ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Coffee Drinkers May Outlive Us All: Thank You, Malcolm Gladwell The AARP

    Anyone who habitually reads The New Yorker along with their equally habitual morning cup of joe will remember with great fondness Malcolm Gladwell's 2001 story "Java Man," in which Gladwell considered "how caffeine created the modern world." Now comes yet more evidence that Sweden's King Gustav III ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Study: Regular Chocolate Eaters Are Skinnier

    Katharine Hepburn once attributed her slim figure to "a lifetime of chocolate." Now a new study from UC San Diego has found that people who eat chocolate on a regular basis are indeed thinner than those who don't. The findings from the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, were publish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Rave Drug Ketamine Eyed as Quick Cure for Suicidal Depression

    The circle of life, or something like it, has come to the field of severe depression medicine. You see, while ravers often complain of depression because they use up all their happy coupons every Saturday night (often in the form of serotonin-greedy ecstasy), physicians who treat hardcore cases of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Americans Eat Too Much Salt

    Flickr/Rafe Saltman​Why you salty broad. You old salt. A new "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health says 88% of the U.S. population consumes more than the recommended amount of salt per day, increasing their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    BPA Found in Kid-Friendly Canned Foods

    Campbell'sDisney princesses may contain toxic chemicals​ Disney princesses may be toxic, and not just for sociological reasons. New testing by the Breast Cancer Fund has found BPA (bisphenol-A) in six brands of canned foods marketed to children, with the highest level in Campbell's Disney Prin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Americans Are Eating More Meals Bigger Portions

    Flickr/Father.Jack​ This may come as a shock, but a new study has found that Americans are eating more than they used to, Reuters reports. Average daily meal consumption has risen from 3.8 in 1977 to 4.8 in 2006, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers. In the pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Animal-Rights Activists Send 'AIDS-Tainted' Razor Blades, 'Hell Awaits You' Note To UCLA Professor

    UCLA MagazineWhatcha got for me today, Doc​UCLA neuroscientist David Jentsch, who performs drug tests on vervet monkeys at the university, was the target of a particularly gnarly animal-rights protest this week. He received a package at his home containing alleged AIDS-infested razor blades a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    UCLA Study: Pancreatic Cancer Loves Fructose, Controversial Sweetener

    A coming battle over corn? ​ As Americans' consumption of high-fructose corn syrup -- a corn-based sweetener found in sodas and other processed foods -- has skyrocketed, so has our propensity to become obese and develop diabetes. Not surprisingly, corn growers and the food industry have foug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Chemicals in Processed Meats Linked to Cancer

    Mike Johnson, TheBusyBrain.comThe chemicals that make hot dogs red may be a contributing factor in certain cancers. ​ Cigarettes might not be the only "cancer sticks." Nitrites and nitrates -- chemicals added to processed meats such as hot dogs and bologna for preservation, color and flavor -- ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2010

    Heimlich Maneuvered

    A gala at Cindy Landon's honoring a top scientist discredited by his son gets a venue change

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    Weed Takes Root

    Marijuana's steady march toward legalization nationwide

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    Full Metal Lotus

    Returning California soldiers tap Buddhist meditation to overcome war’s psychological damage

  • Columns

    October 26, 2006

    A Good Spore

    Returning California soldiers tap Buddhist meditation to overcome war’s psychological damage

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    The Stem-Cell Debate Gets Silly

    Challenge to $3 billion in research funds has its (bad) day in court

  • Columns

    April 21, 2005

    David Ehrenstein, Meet David Ehrenstein

    Challenge to $3 billion in research funds has its (bad) day in court

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    University of Fear

    How the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a big man on campus

  • News

    January 22, 2004

    Watching the Detectives

    With Big Brother getting bigger, the nerds battle back

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    How Scary This Year Was for Parents:

    With Big Brother getting bigger, the nerds battle back

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Letters

    With Big Brother getting bigger, the nerds battle back

  • News

    August 28, 2003

    Turn On, Meet God, Get Straight

    An African root bark may offer clues to addiction — if only it were legal to study

  • Columns

    August 14, 2003

    Hot Wheels

    An African root bark may offer clues to addiction — if only it were legal to study

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    Can You Hear Them Now?

    Unlikely activists shoot down Palisades cell-phone tower

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    The Final Frontier

    Depending on whom you ask, stem-cell research is either a medical godsend or further proof that God is dead.

  • Columns

    December 5, 2002

    Fat, the Bastard

    The war over oil may be taking place in your head

  • Columns

    October 10, 2002

    Pharm Phresh

    Frankenfoods II

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2001

    Marijuana Index

    Frankenfoods II

  • Art+Books

    March 1, 2001

    Waiting for the End of the World

    Jon Cohen documents the fits and starts of AIDS-vaccine research

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    AIDS Panic at the County

    Race politics threaten major federal research grant

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