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A new study from Australia suggests that couch potatoes live shorter lives. The study followed 8,800 adults ages 25 and older for six and a half years and found that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 18 percent increase in deaths from heart disease and an 11 percent

ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2010) — For brain cells to communicate, the contacts to each other must function. The protein molecule neuroligin-1 plays an important role in this as it stimulates the necessary maturation processes at the contact sites (synapses) of the nerves.   A synaptic

With the tragic death of a 23-year-old male runner on Saturday, October 10, at the Baltimore marathon, an important question is: How safe is marathon running? The death of this young man, who collapsed during his run and never regained consciousness, is the second to occur during the marathon’s

Investigators are currently looking for the person responsible for biting off the left pinky fingertip of a 65 year old man at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, California Wednesday night. This crime is called mayhem and is punishable by imprisonment for either 2, 4, or 8 years. This health

This week’s NaturalNews Talk Hour features Dr. Mitch Fleisher, M.D., D.Ht., discussing the topic of “Profound Healing with Homeopathy.” It runs this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration is free. Simply enter your email address in the registration form

Licorice twist, chocolate bars, salt chips and sugary sodas are declining in schools so says a government report just issued. The report is suggesting that there is less junk foods in school especially with schools that are focused on good nutrition in schools. To estimate changes in the

Washington health department’s Health Systems Quality Assurance Office works with boards, commissions, and advisory committees to set licensing standards for more than 70 health care professions (e.g., medical doctors, nurses, counselors). Information about health care providers is on the

Technological advances, especially in critical emergency medical situations, can be life-saving. For example, scans of the body can locate with great precision a bullet that needs to be removed from near a vital organ, or detail how a shattered bone needs to be treated. But there’s growing

Today’s article on health care reform has stirred up an unexpectedly vocal debate among NaturalNews readers about health care reform. Some have expressed confusion over the NaturalNews position on health care reform: Are we for it? Against it? Do we support Obama? Do we support socialized

Natural health advocates have spread the word for decade after decade that heart disease and stroke can almost always be prevented by living a healthy lifestyle of optimum nutrition, exercise, fresh air and sunshine. But these strategies have often been dismissed by mainstream medicine as