Older people should boost their intake of Vitamin D with supplements to ward off dementia, a new study suggests.Researchers have found people over the age of 60 with low levels of the essential vitamin experienced mental decline up to three times faster than those with adequate readings.Vitamin D – known for its importance for bone… Read More »
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — After visiting Silicon Valley this summer for a tour of tech companies including Apple, Google and IBM, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health is coming back — this time to work.Google’s life-sciences division, now its own subsidiary of parent company Alphabet, said Tuesday that it has hired Thomas… Read More »
32.3K5682Comment625California Gov. Jerry Brown Sends Ben Carson The Climate Evidence He Couldn’t Find”Climate change is much bigger than partisan politics.”Headshot of Dhyana TaylorDhyana TaylorPolitics Intern, The Huffington PostPosted: 09/11/2015 03:36 PM EDT | Edited: 09/11/2015 05:04 PM EDTASSOCIATED PRESSRetired neurosurgeon turned Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson received a flash drive on Thursday full of the… Read More »
Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers”I do think race played a part in this.”Headshot of Christopher MathiasChristopher MathiasNational Reporter, The Huffington PostPosted: 09/11/2015 04:02 PM EDT | Edited: 09/11/2015 05:57 PM EDTPIX11NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to… Read More »
The unapologetic cop who body-slammed tennis great James Blake outside a Midtown hotel without identifying himself as an officer allegedly tried to cover up the bogus arrest.Officer James Frascatore failed to inform his superiors that he threw Blake to the sidewalk and cuffed him in the mistaken belief that he was a wanted credit card… Read More »
After three years, 30 percent of the outdoor activity group had developed nearsightedness, compared to almost 40 percent of kids in the control group, according to the results in JAMA.That means kids who spent more time outside were 23 percent less likely to develop nearsightedness, the authors write.The study doesn’t investigate why time outdoors might… Read More »
New guidelines apply to people with an elevated risk of heart disease.Doctors have long recommended taking a low-dose aspirin daily to reduce the risk of heart problems, but in the past year, those recommendations have seen reversals, with some experts saying that for people who have not had a cardiac event, a daily aspirin isn’t… Read More »
The evocative title of Timothy Snyder’s new book—Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning—is a reference to the fertile soil of Ukraine, where Adolf Hitler hoped to establish lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German race. And yet it could also be seen as an allusion to what Snyder argues is the underappreciated importance… Read More »
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration halted the sale of four R.J. Reynolds cigarette products on Wednesday, saying a scientific review found that they were potentially more harmful than the company had claimed.The agency ordered retailers who sell any of the cigarettes — Camel Crush Bold, Pall Mall Deep Set Recessed Filter, Pall Mall… Read More »
When my first baby was born, the doctor handed her to me and said, “Meet your future teenage daughter.” Then she got on the phone with her own teenage daughter, and the two of them got into a loud argument about what to eat for dinner. I still remember the daughter’s aggrieved voice, audible through… Read More »
Perhaps in an effort to entertain and likely get something off of his chest in one fell swoop, a Norwegian flight attendant informed passengers aboard a Monday flight from Paris to Stockholm that a couple had been discovered fornicating in the plane’s bathroom, the Local reported.The flight attendant, who broke the news in Swedish from… Read More »
Mixing a brew of biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, a volatile economy, world politics, a reported near-death experience and astronomical occurrences, hordes of Utahns have become convinced that calamitous events are imminent — maybe by month’s end — and are taking every precaution.They are called “preppers” and are buying up food-storage kits, flashlights, blankets and… Read More »
Whenever I first heard the word “microaggression,” sometime in the last five years, I’m sure I was unaware how big “micro” could get. The accusation of a microaggression was about to become a pervasive feature of the Internet, and particularly social media. An offense most of us didn’t even know existed, suddenly we were all… Read More »
Over the years, resveratrol, an antioxidant found in grapes, chocolate and red wine, has been touted as a possible antidote to Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes and many other conditions. Now, the first study in people with Alzheimer’s suggests that the compound, when taken in concentrated doses, may actually have benefit in slowing progression of this… Read More »