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Sweating the Choices
If you knew just how much exercise you'd need to do to burn off that sundae, would you still eat the sundae? Odds are you wouldn't. Well, OK, maybe you wouldn't eat all of it.
A Texas Christian University study recruited 300 young adults and offered …Read more.
Go Ahead and Kiss the Frog
A new study by researchers at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands says the best way to avoid warts is to, well, avoid family and friends. Not really, but the researchers did find conclude that the top mode of transmission for warts …Read more.
Take Two Pills and Buzz Me In the Morning
Among animal behavioralists, it's been widely known that some species like chimpanzees self-medicate just like humans; seeking out medicinal herbs, for example, to treat what ails them.
The list of animal pharmacists is getting longer and ever more …Read more.
Child of Nurture
Over the last three decades, child and adolescent obesity has tripled, with current estimates putting more than one-third of kids overweight or obese and at higher risk for a variety of diseases and ailments, from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular …Read more.
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Wages Doc'dWhen your mom told you it would pay to become a doctor, you should have listened. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just came out with its annual listing of jobs and compensation, which U.S. News & World Report then crunched to find the highest-paid jobs in the United States. Nine of the top 10 require medical training. Coming in at No. 1 were anesthesiologists (average annual pay: $232,830), followed by surgeons ($230,540), obstetricians and gynecologists ($216,760), oral and maxillofacial surgeons ($216,440), internists ($191,520), orthodontists ($186,320), other physicians and surgeons ($184,820), family and general practitioners ($180,850) and psychiatrists ($177,520). The only non-medical job on the list, ranked 10th, was chief executive at $176, 840. According to U.S.
BODY OF KNOWLEDGE On average, a person's left hand does 56 percent of typing.
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