While trolling Google Reader yesterday, I spied something in the Knight Science Journalism Tracker (powered mainly by well-known science writer Charlie Petit) that hit a …
Category: Wellness
Can breastfeeding help moms slim down?
I literally yelped when I came across an article in the New York Times this morning. The piece tackles an issue that my mom-friends and …
Jumping may be best exercise for building healthy bones
This month a special section of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, highlights the ongoing …
Caucasian women most likely to have restless leg syndrome
In a new study, 2 out of 5 Caucasian women were found to have restless leg syndrome, a disorder that causes unpleasant feelings in the …
School nutrition standards come into the 21st century
Although the federal government updates the Dietary Guidelines for Americans every five years, shockingly the nutritional standards behind the National Lunch Program and School Breakfast …
Twitterpated science writers?
The combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers and the New Horizons in Science conference (sponsored by the Council for the Advancement …
The trouble with the thumb
My oldest daughter is a thumb-sucker. It never really bothered me or my husband, and neither her physician or dentist (surprisingly) have expressed great concern …
A math myth exposed
Seems the notion that genetically speaking boys are better than girls in math is a myth. Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky, PhD, writes in a column …
An insider's view of health care reform
Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, says in a recent Q&A that inaction on health care reform is simply not an …
The NIH's Francis Collins' to do list
Francis Collins has been the director of the NIH for nearly two months. Yet he’s already punched a number of his accomplishments on a twenty …
Making the healthy choice a fun choice
In an experiment to encourage people to take the stairs rather than the escalator, Volkswagen Sweden and ad agency DDB Stockholm transformed subway station stairs …
Smoking bans reduce heart attack rates
Anti-smoking laws passed during the past two decades by more than 70 percent of the country are effective in saving lives, according to a new …
National guidelines for salt intake questioned
The debate on national nutrition policies is heating up as two federal panels begin work on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At the center …
Benefits of dialysis for frail elderly debated
USA Today readers debated the topic of the benefits of dialysis treatment for the frail elderly with kidney failure in response to the story "Risks …
Get out your running shoes, Mom
Between my job here and all the pregnancy/parenting books I've consumed over the past three years, I thought I knew all the pros and cons …
Greider on women in science
I wrote below about the unusual number of women recognized during the 2009 Nobel Prizes. Since then, another woman , Elinor Ostrom, PhD, shared the …