Different cultures have different norms regarding the acceptability of body hair. For example, in many countries of the world, women are largely expected to shave their legs and underarm hair when going out in public. But what about that other, far less public patch of hair? The latest edition of Shogakukan’s News Post Seven teamed up… Read More »
The $30 billion banks collect in overdraft fees each year may shrink as the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau imposes rules aimed at shielding customers from harm. The agency is weighing regulations to improve consumer awareness of overdraft costs and restrict how banks can debit transactions and impose fees, according to a senior agency official.… Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified top lawmakers Thursday of its plan to begin regulating laboratory tests used to diagnose dangerous diseases. The announcement comes almost a month after Senate Democrats pushed the Office of Management and Budget to release FDA guidance that had been held up for years. The agency attached the proposed… Read More »
By Lisa Rennie, Daily Digest News Thursday, July 31, 2014 Researchers have discovered that alterations to one gene that is linked to stress reactions may provide physicians with an opportunity to identify the risk of a patient attempting suicide, which can be detected in a simple blood test. In 2011, 39,518 suicides were reported… Read More »
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) — They may not have had fast food, TVs or cigarettes, but people of ancient times commonly developed clogged heart arteries — and a new research review speculates on some reasons why. Using CT scans of mummified remains from ancient Egypt, Peru, the Aleutian… Read More »