Vitamin D, also called the sunshine vitamin, has already been shown in studies to be important for a healthy immune system, preventing & even reversing cancer, as well as strong bones. A recent study published in the Archives of Neurology has found that low levels of vitamin D could also have play a part in [...]

LONDON — The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates are regularly tested and treated, according to a new mathematical model. read more | digg story

Academics calculate that sociopaths — those suffering from “anti-social personality disorder” — account for about 3-4% of the male population and under 1% of the female population. Dr. Martha Stout explains that since everyone assumes that conscience is universal, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. read more | digg story

With Congress ready to spend $700 billion to prop up the U.S. economy, enacting health-care reform may seem about as likely as the Dow hitting 10,000 again before the end of the year. But it may be more doable than you think, provided we dispel a few myths about how health care works and how [...]

Online support sites for high survival rate cancers have more emotional support content than sites for low survival rate cancers. Researchers assessed differences in emotional and informational social support content in online communities for cancers with high and low survival rates. read more | digg story

Medical tourism, which used to be mainly for elective surgery, and aimed at people who could afford weeklong trips to Brazil, is becoming an increasingly viable source of more basic health care for some of those sidelined by the insurance system in America, where 47 million people are uninsured and many millions are underinsured. read [...]

A new study from Georgia Tech shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to compensate by reorganizing its neural connections. Age –related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. read more | [...]

Are our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way. With internet usage, a significantly bigger piece of neural real estate lit up on the fMRI indicating that more parts of the brain were engaged. read more | digg story