A training program called Xtreme Aging is helping people empathise with the elderly.
Health and Lifestyle
Researchers say woman may hold key to AIDS vaccine
An “elite suppressor” from Baltimore, USA, may reveal the secret to an AIDS vaccine, scientists have reported in the Journal of Virology.
‘Women on the pill are in a state of chemical castration’
The pill reduces women to mere instrument for the satisfaction of male desires; it can, directly or indirectly, be a cause of infertility, which can cause much heartache especially to women.
The one question everybody’s asking about the Beijing Olympics
It’s not whether Michael Phelps represents an “intermediate form” between today’s human being and tomorrow’s, though if he gets eight golds – which will give him 14 total – we might as well show him to the Creationists as proof of evolution.
You’re too sick to go to work, but you’re a doctor, so you go anyway
Dr Jane Doe from Two Weeks on a Trolley is feeling sick.
Video game helps young cancer patients adhere to meds – research
Research published in this month’s Paediatrics has found that playing a video game can help young people keep up with medications.
Prostate cancer body recommends against screening for men over 75
The US Preventive Services Task Force could not find adequate proof that early detection via PSA screening in men over 75 leads to fewer dying of the disease.
The genetics of the seven deadly sins
Scientists have been debating whether gluttony is genetic, physiological, or sociological for quite some time.
Alzheimer’s disease drug shows promise
A new drug may be a significant improvement in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and slow the progression of dementia, according to the Times.
Nobody is talking to the patients
A New York Times article on the collapse of the doctor-patient relationship.