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Little white pills of aspirin have been popped by millions of people since the drug came to market in 1899. And today around 40,000 tonnes of the drug are sold every year around the world. But a new paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that misuse of aspirin to ...
The shadow health minister Andrew Lansley was criticised earlier this year when he pointed out that, fiscally painful as they are, recessions are nonetheless good for a nation's health.
Now there's more scientific evidence to support that claim thanks to a paper in the current edition of PNAS by Un...
Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could flick a genetic switch and increase the number of brain cells we have? But it would be bad news if this production line ran out of control, because then you'd end up with a brain tumour.
Now researchers in the US have tracked down the gene responsible for m...
Scientists have discovered how to use the natural hum inherent to the Earth to see deep within the planet's interior.
Various processes, including ocean swells and atmospheric disturbances set up very low frequency vibrations - less than 0.01Hz - that propagate through the planet. Because the chara...
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