Category Archives: Health

Why do People Cheat? UMD Research Identifies 8 Motivating Factors

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Infidelity in a relationship can be costly—personally, financially and socially—yet it remains an exceedingly common occurrence. New research led by the University of Maryland Department of Psychology provides a comprehensive list of the main reasons people cheat, and questions traditional wisdom about what infidelity means in a relationship.  (more…)

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Sex tourism and the horror superbug

Public Health England, a British Government’s health agency, just reported a case of a heterosexual man infected with ‘Neisseria gonorrhoeae’. The superbug is resistant to both the antibiotics azithromycin and ceftriaxone. This is worldwide the first case of multi-drug-resistant Gonorrhoeae. (more…)

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Informationen aus Tumoren mit bisher unerreichter Präzision

Forscher der Universität Tübingen kombinieren leistungsstarke Verfahren zur Bildgebung und zur Stoffwechselanalyse, um das Krankheitsgeschehen in hoher räumlicher Auflösung festzuhalten

Forschern der Universität Tübingen ist es gelungen, Tumordaten aus bildgebenden Verfahren und so genannten Hochdurchsatzverfahren mit hoher Präzision zu kombinieren. Ziel der Wissenschaftler ist es, Stoffwechselvorgänge in Tumoren in ihrer Gesamtheit sichtbar zu machen und dadurch besser zu verstehen. (more…)

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Scientists find missing clue to how HIV hacks cells to propagate itself

Computer modeling has helped a team of scientists, including several scholars from the University of Chicago, to decode previously unknown details about the process by which HIV forces cells to spread the virus to other cells. The findings, published Nov. 7 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may offer a new avenue for drugs to combat the virus. (more…)

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Sea swimming increases ailments

People who swim, bathe or take part in water sports in the sea are substantially more likely to experience stomach bugs, ear aches and other types of illness than those who do not.

The large-scale research analysis was led by the University of Exeter Medical School in collaboration with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. It is the first systematic review to examine the evidence on whether spending time in the sea is associated with increased risk of reporting a variety of ailments. (more…)

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