Category: Science and Health

From Ancient Greece comes a story of rival artists, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, who competed to create the most realistic painting. Zeuxis drew grapes so realistic birds flew down to peck at them. Parrhasius brought his picture covered in cloth. Reaching out to lift the cloth, Zeuxis was stunned to discover he had lost the contest — the cloth […]

Bruce Willis’ heartbreaking situation brought awareness to the complex struggle of many families who see a loved one disappearing before their eyes. Family members of dementia and Alzheimer’s patients face a terrible reality, one in which they find themselves at the center of intensive therapeutic activity 24 hours a day.  Caring for a relative suffering […]

A new study has found that using a smartphone picture of a child’s inside lower eyelid to diagnose anemia is about 72% accurate. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, could make anemia screening more widely available, particularly for children in low-income countries (including in Ghana, where the research was conducted in collaboration […]

Earphones have become a part of our daily routine, whether you use them to listen to music or podcasts or to talk on the phone, but do they harm us? Studies prove that there is a higher percentage of hearing impairment among people who use earphones often, as a result of prolonged exposure to noise, […]

A new study by researchers at Reichman University’s Brain Cognition and Technology Institute has shown that visual navigation areas in the brain can be activated with sound. By traversing mazes using sound information instead of visual information after training, visual navigation areas were activated. This finding has numerous exciting implications. Among them is that the […]

The prostate-specific antigen blood test for prostate cancer has become controversial in recent years due to its questionable reliability. It also isn’t clear that the benefits of PSA screening outweigh the risks of follow-up diagnostic tests and cancer treatments. False-positive test results – when a man has an abnormal PSA test but does not have […]

The belief that drinking milk after eating fish can cause vitiligo, a skin condition that causes parts of the skin to lose color, is present in various different cultures. Another theory posits that eating fish and dairy together can cause gas and other digestive issues because the foods rich in protein need different enzymes to […]

The emojis you use can say a lot about your mental health and your relationships, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Psychology this week.  In day-to-day life, messages are interpreted by more than just words. Body language, facial expression and social situation can be key in communicating and understanding messages interpersonally. Online communication prevents […]

There are those who share clothes with family members, and most of us have no problem sharing food. However, a British dentist now also recommends that families share a toothbrush – and here we have already crossed a red line (although it turns out not for everyone). Jess Potter, a dentist who starred in the […]

A man in Florida died as a result of contracting a brain-eating infection known as Naegleria Fowleri, that he caught while doing nasal irrigation earlier this week.  The man used unboiled tap water to clear his sinuses, according to the CDC. “The adult patient reportedly performed nasal rinsing daily with unboiled tap water, which is […]