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CHICAGO Here’s some good and bad news for chocoholics: Dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure, but it requires an amount less than two Hershey’s Kisses to do it, a small study suggests.
The new research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it’s the first to suggest […]

What’s an effective diet for a teen trying to lose weight? A new Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center study shows that a low carbohydrate diet appears to be effective for obese teens when run by pediatricians in the office setting.
The study, to be presented Sunday May 6 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic […]

Arthur Kornberg, a biochemist whose Nobel Prize-winning discovery of how DNA is assembled helped ignite the biotechnology revolution, died Oct. 26 in Stanford, California. He was 89 and worked in his laboratory at Stanford University until a few days before his death.
The cause was respiratory failure, a spokesman for Stanford said.
Kornberg was one […]

Not long after a typically underwhelming showing by the British contingent at the Wimbledon championships in July, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published the results of a study that suggested to beleaguered English tennis fans that things are only going to get worse. In the study, researchers from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital scanned […]

Severely obese people who have weight-loss surgery are less likely to die from heart disease, diabetes and cancer seven to 10 years following the procedure than similarly heavy people who don’t have the operation, according to two studies in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine examined […]