The nation is abuzz once again over whether the fluoridation of tap water should be expanded to the entire country for the sake of public health. The issue came to a head as the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on Tuesday that adding fluoride to tap water at a density of 0.8 ppm has proven effective in preventing dental cavities in children. A research team from Wonkwang University stud...

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- A U.S. university says a researcher known for his work on red wine's benefits to cardiovascular health falsified his data in more than 100 instances. (Bloomberg) Nearly a dozen scientific journals are being warned of the potential problems after publishing the University of Connecticut professor's studies. University officials say dismissal proceedings have starte...

WASHINGTON (AP) ― If you’ve been putting off repairing a peeling windowsill, or you’re thinking of knocking out a wall, listen up: Check how old your house is. You may need to take steps to protect your kids from dangerous lead. The risk of lead-based paint from older homes is back in the news, as the government considers tightening the definition of lead poisoning in babies, toddlers and presch...

Drinking alcohol helps to release endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, a study found. According to the study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, endorphin release in the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal cortex in response to alcohol consumption has been directly observed in humans. Endorphins are small proteins with opi...

Red wine may reduce one risk factor for breast cancer, challenging the widely-held belief that alcohol increases breast cancer, U.S. researchers say. Bottles of wine are displayed on a shelf at the Capercaillie Wine Co. cellar in Lovedale, in the Hunter Valley region of Australia, on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (Bloomberg) Study co-author Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt, assistant director of the Women's He...

Cognitive skills can start to fall from the age of 45, not from around the age of 60 as is commonly thought, according to research published on Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Researchers led by Archana Singh-Manoux from the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health in France and University College London observed 5,198 men and 2,192 women over a 10-year period from ...

MILWAUKEE ― In the course of a few hours on a recent fall day, all of Ann Merrell’s blood slowly exited her body through a tube in her left arm, then re-entered through a tube in her right. Two lives were bound up in this circle of blood. The night before, in her own bed in South Beloit, Ill., she’d tossed and turned. Some of it was fear of the unknown. Yet Ann had decided that what she knew ab...

When the temperature falls, the heart can be put under greater stress and the probability of sudden cardiac death surges among those in mid-life. Excessive drinking, excessive smoking and chronic fatigue in day-to-day life may lead to the onset of sudden chest pain followed by cardiac arrest and death. Sudden death refers to an unexpected natural death caused within one hour of the onset of symp...