The Olympic-size benefit of an hour of daily exercise
As the Summer Olympics come to a close, it's an excellent time to think about ... the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team? No, they got plenty of attention. We're thinking more about new insights from a study about exercise that began at the start of the 2012 Olympic cycle.
Researchers set out to...
Something's fishy here
Once again, headline-grabbing health news is sending folks into a whirl, just like ... well ... exactly which political news story should we cite? How about this one: On Nov. 3, 1948, the Chicago Tribune printed the front-page headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman." That was just plain wrong, and so may be recent...
Stem cells, worth the wait
Headlines call it a miracle: In the well-respected medical journal The Lancet, Canadian researchers reported that 23 people with debilitating multiple sclerosis had no relapses of their condition for up to 13 years after receiving stem cell therapy. And this year, in a clinical trial at Stanford University School of...