News articles tagged with 'body'
How materialistic advertising messages negatively shape the female body image
— 6 Apr 2011 19:26 | HealthPsychological research has consistently shown that women feel unhappy with their body after looking at images of thin, idealised models, which are typically represented in the media.…
Nursing students map their way to understanding HIV
— 30 Mar 2011 16:46 | HealthIn the Faculty of Nursing, students are taught the importance of connecting with the community, and nursing professor Vera Caine has come up with a way for students to not only learn…
Negative attitudes toward fat bodies going global, study finds
— 29 Mar 2011 15:49 | HealthStigma against overweight people is becoming a cultural norm around the world, even in places where larger bodies have traditionally been valued. That's according to a cross-cultural…
Analysis suggests cancer risk of backscatter airport scanners is low
— 29 Mar 2011 15:27 | HealthCalculations by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley estimate that the cancer risk associated with one type of airport…
Larger female hyenas produce more offspring
— 28 Mar 2011 16:22 | BiologyWhen it comes to producing more offspring, larger female hyenas outdo their smaller counterparts…
A diabetes drug, sitagliptin, also has a potential to prevent diabetes
— 28 Mar 2011 15:27 | HealthDiabetes type 2 is caused by insufficient levels of insulin to keep blood glucose under control. Excessive levels of another hormone, glucagon, can also contribute to diabetes type…
Sunlight can influence the breakdown of medicines in the body
— 9 Mar 2011 19:35 | HealthA study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet has shown that the body's ability to break down medicines may be closely related to exposure to sunlight, and thus…
Protein study helps shape understanding of body forms
— 9 Mar 2011 18:38 | HealthScientists have shed light on why some people are apple-shaped and others are pear-shaped…
Improved lesion detection with time-of-flight PET scans affirmed
— 3 Mar 2011 13:32 | HealthFor the first time, quantitative - not qualitative - data analysis has demonstrated that time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) scans can improve cancer detection.…
How much can a cell uptake?
— 3 Mar 2011 12:59 | HealthImmunological research at the University of Haifa, Israel, has made a new breakthrough, revealing a critical component in the 'decision-making' process of white blood cells that play…