Less pain, more gain – improving health and fitness with minimal exercise

Jan 17, 2017 14:44 pm UTC| Health

When it comes to exercise, if there was a way to get more health benefits by doing less, then its likely a lot of people would be interested. This is probably the reason that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) gets a...

Eating standing up – is it really bad for you?

Jan 17, 2017 14:18 pm UTC| Health

These days, many of us are flooded with advice on what to eat, when to eat and how much to eat. Alongside this calorie and nutrient-based advice you may even have heard that you should avoid eating while standing up or...

Scientists Found A Way To Make Pacemaker Batteries Obsolete

Jan 17, 2017 13:42 pm UTC| Technology Health

Pacemakers have saved a lot of lives over the years by helping to regulate the heartbeats of those with arrhythmia. The problem, however, is that those pacemakers run on batteries that have a tendency to run out of juice...

What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level

Jan 16, 2017 03:58 am UTC| Health

The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But theres more to sex than just the meeting of two sets of genes. The Whats the point of sex?...

COVID Virus Crisis

The mosquito-borne Zika virus can also be transmitted by sexual activity

Jan 16, 2017 02:34 am UTC| Health

The Zika virus (ZIKV) dominated global public health concerns during 2016. Affecting over 60 countries, this primarily mosquito-borne disease has been associated with serious birth defects including microcephaly, and...

Is snoring anything to worry about?

Jan 16, 2017 02:29 am UTC| Health

Theres nothing quite like the sound of snoring as the ultimate sleep interrupter. But snoring can be more than just a frustration to those in your vicinity. Sometimes snoring is linked to more serious health problems,...

Struggling to stay healthy in 2017? Bad marketing could be to blame

Jan 14, 2017 05:00 am UTC| Health

Are you trying to lose the weight that you put on over the holiday period? You may have already been bombarded with articles on willpower, exercise regimes and dieting to help shift those extra pounds. A big problem...