Articles By Matthew Mientka
- One's blood pressure status in middle age may predict future mental decline. New research suggests the onset of hypertension causes differing forms of cognitive damage.
- Most of two dozen Parkinson's patients who have received dopamine fetal stem cell transplants have experienced an improvement of symptoms, researchers say.
- Though told otherwise for decades, Americans are advised to consume a ketogenic-inspired diet high in fats and low in carbs.
- Medical marijuana advocates recently began targeting Congressional holdouts who oppose the drug, and voted against a DEA bill that would block their ability to penalize state-legal marijuana businesses.
- The enduring popularity of Tetris on the video game's 30th birthday — dubbed World Tetris Day by supporters — testifies to the human desire for order, at least one psychologist says.
- Hours after a near-drowning mishap, children may experience coughing and trouble breathing after pulling water into the lungs; parents are advised to take children to the emergency room when such...
- Artificial vision continues to take shape as developers advance a technique using electrical stimulation of retinal cells with an increasing precision.
- New research shows a family of immunological genes may allow mutations leading to cancer induced by human papillomavirus.
- A higher likelihood of complications and excessive pain for children after tonsillectomy comes with higher levels of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke as well as poisonous gas from coal-burning stoves.
- Two common male birth defects to the reproductive tract are the result of changes to a single gene, researchers from Baylor College say.
- The brain's capacity for memory may be as simple as a light switch, researchers found, after shining a laser into a rat's brain.
- New discoveries about how population-wide genetics affect individual tastes and food preferences may soon bring personalized nutrition plans to the table.