A professor of cell biology and a team at Harvard Medical School discovered the hormone dubbed “irisin” in 2012. They isolated the natural hormone from muscle cells that trigger some of the health-promoting properties of exercise, which, they say, could be developed into novel treatments for diabetes, obesity, and cancer. In the previous study, the […]
Judging others seem to be part of our everyday lives that we are almost unaware how much hurtful it can be and how much damage it can cause to the person who is being judged. We are not even aware of how it influences unjustified opinion we create about others according to what we hear […]
A study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B reveals how Wizard, an app created for the iPad, was developed and tested with a group of 22 participants who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Lead author Prof. Barbara Sahakian, from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, UK, says that […]
We’ve all seen an occasional headline of a medical mistake passing by. These errors include surgery gone wrong, misdiagnosis, administering the wrong dosage of medication or neglecting the care of a patient. However, these seemingly rare cases of medical errors happen more often that you may think. According to a new study, led by Johns […]
Autism is a mental condition characterized by difficulty in communicating, forming relationships, and an altered way of perceiving the world. Epilepsy is characterized by bursts of intense electrical activity in the brain and seizures. At face value, the two conditions do not necessarily look like they are related. However, the relationship between them is now […]
People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing, taking or using. Their addiction may reach a point at which it is harmful. Addictions do not only include physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol, but may include virtually anything, such abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, […]