Good sleep patterns cut heart disease risk, study finds Persistently favorable sleep patterns may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, even in individuals with higher genetic susceptibility. 04/25/2024 - 1:07 pm | View Link
Childhood maltreatment increases risk of alcohol and substance use disorders by threefold A new study published in the scientific journal Addiction has found that people who are maltreated as children may be three times more likely to be admitted to hospital for alcohol and substance use ... 04/20/2024 - 6:32 pm | View Link
Routine jobs raise the risk of cognitive decline by 66% and dementia by 37%, study says Having a routine job with little mental stimulation during your 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s was linked to a 66% higher risk of mild cognitive impairment and a 37% greater risk of dementia after the age ... 04/17/2024 - 10:16 am | View Link
Genome study reveals prehistoric Ethiopian origins of coffee WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You might call it a cup of Joe, java, mud, brew, mocha, or your morning jolt. Coffee undoubtedly is a big part of global culture, and the kind made from the Arabica bean is ... 04/16/2024 - 3:17 am | View Link
Pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of early death even decades later, study finds The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that women who experienced major complications during pregnancy had an increased risk of early death and that risk remained ... 04/15/2024 - 4:01 am | View Link
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan briefly stunned John Sauer, Donald Trump's attorney, by asking if the president could stage a coup.
The confrontation came Thursday during oral arguments before the high court about whether Trump enjoys presidential immunity for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to TikTok being banned in the U. S. if ByteDance, the app’s Chinese-owned parent company, does not sell it within a year. Lawmakers are increasingly worried that the app could pose national security concerns to the U. S.
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at his former attorney general for endorsing him in the November presidential election. And I'm not sure what Bill Barr expected, but this is the status quo with the twice-impeached, four-times indicted, petty, petulant, wannabe potentate.
Bill Barr, who was one of Trump's most prominent critics, said that despite his differences with his former boss, he will support "the Republican ticket" in November.
Courtesy of TP USA, Killer Kyle Rittenhouse has been doing a tour of campuses to talk about something, but no one was sure quite what it was he wanted to speak about because he kept getting run off of campus, time and time again.
But when Killer Kyle went to Kent State - the most offensive of his stops thus far - the campus cooperated by shutting down the voices of the students that actually go there in favor of the emotionally stunted social outcast.
New York’s top court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, the watershed case that sparked Hollywood’s #MeToo movement.
The 72-year-old has been serving a 23-year sentence on rape and sexual assault charges in an upstate New York correctional facility since February 2020.
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Here’s what we know about the landmark decision.
Why was Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned?
In a 4-3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals found that the appointed judge prejudiced the disgraced movie mogul’s case by allowing prosecution to call women who were not part of the case to testify as witnesses.
What does it tell us, my students ask, that nine years after Donald Trump oozed down the golden escalator and into contention as Leader of the Free World, the American press, mainstream edition, is still arguing about how to cover him?
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Once the charge was that he gets millions of dollars in free media because reporters obsessively overcover him; now it’s that he gets a free ride because they have outrage fatigue.