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 Pocket-Sized Device Charges Your Phone with Water Read More » How to Avoid Low Back Pain: Exercise and Education Shoe inserts, back-support belts and other gadgets aimed at preventing low back pain may be a waste of money. Instead, exercise is the best way to ward off this common problem, a new review of studies suggests. The researchers found evidence that an exercise program alone, or exercise along with education about how to prevent back pain, was effective in averting an episode of low back pain and reducing people's use of sick time at work. Read More »C-Section or Vaginal? Baby's Gut Bacteria Linked to Delivery Method The gut bacteria of 6-week-old babies may be related to the way the infants were delivered and what they have been eating, a new study suggests. The babies in the study who were delivered vaginally had a different composition of gut bacteria than the babies who were delivered by cesarean section, the researchers found. Moreover, the babies who had been fed only breast milk since birth had a different composition of gut bacteria at 6 weeks old than the babies who were fed both breast milk and formula, and the babies who were fed only formula, the researchers found. Read More »Archaeologists hail find of 'best-preserved' UK Bronze Age dwellings Archaeologists said on Tuesday they had discovered what were believed to be the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain, providing an extraordinary insight into prehistoric life from 3,000 years ago. The settlement of large circular wooden houses, built on stilts, collapsed in a fire and plunged into a river where it was preserved in silts leaving them in pristine condition, Historic England said. Discoveries from the dwellings in Whittlesey, in central England, which archaeologists said had been frozen in time and dated from between 1000-800 BC, included pots with food inside and finely woven clothing. Read More »Iceman mummy reveals new clues about stomach bacteria A 5,300 year-old mummified corpse known as the Iceman, or Oetzi, is offering scientists new clues about a stomach infection. Scientists at the EURAC Institute of Mummies and the Iceman in northern Italy removed the bacteria Helicobacter pylori from the mummy and conducted a DNA analysis. It showed the Iceman had an unmixed strain of the bacteria not seen in modern humans. Read More »Why Earth's Largest Ape Went Extinct
Prosthetic Leg with Hoofed Foot Discovered in Ancient Chinese Tomb Read More » Task Force Issues New Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations Women who have an average risk of breast cancer should have mammograms every two years from ages 50 to 74, according to the latest recommendations released today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Average-risk women in their 40s also may benefit from getting mammograms, but their overall likelihood of seeing a benefit is smaller, and the potential for harm is larger than for average-risk women age 50 and older, according to the USPSTF's recommendations, published online today (Jan. 11) in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Read More »Gulp. Sugary Drinks Linked to 'Deep' Fat People who drink sugary beverages, such as soda or fruit juice, daily tend to gain a type of body fat associated with diabetes and heart disease, a new study finds. Researchers looked at about 1,000 middle-age people over a six-year period and found that those who drank sugar-sweetened beverages tended to have more "deep," or visceral, fat. Previous research has linked sweet drinks with other health risks. Read More »Forehead Teeth? 'Deformed' Mountain Lion Puzzles Experts Read More » | ||||
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