Author – The Durango Herald

Do you know how much sugar you eat each day? If not, you should

LONDON – Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent of your total calories – half of what the agency previously recommen...

DATE: Mar 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

A new way to predict depression

Saliva analysis can forecast depression in boys

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

TV drama helps German doctor

LONDON – If you’re unlucky enough to be stricken with a rare medical condition, you’d better hope your doctor watches the right television show. That was the lesson for one German...

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Peanut allergies solved?

LONDON – An experimental therapy feeding children with peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour has helped more than 80 percent of them safely eat a handful of the previously worrisome...

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

London’s X-ray machine van in search for TB

Tuberculosis surge prompts action

DATE: Dec 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health

Shaken, but too stirred?

Analysis shows Fleming’s James Bond to be a lush

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study: soda tax would reduce UK obesity

LONDON – Slapping a 20 percent tax on soda in Britain could cut the number of obese adults by about 180,000, according to a new study. Though the number works out to a modest drop...

DATE: Nov 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health

More strokes striking world’s younger folks

LONDON – Strokes are increasingly hitting younger people and the incidence of the crippling condition worldwide could double by 2030, warns the first global analysis of the problem. ...

DATE: Oct 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health

Air pollution can cause cancer, agency says

LONDON – What many commuters choking on smog have long suspected has finally been scientifically validated: air pollution causes lung cancer. The International Agency for Research...

DATE: Oct 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health

Faces: Super recognizers never forget them

Ability for facial recognition sets them apart

DATE: Sep 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health

New study suggests that bird flu can spread among humans

LONDON — Chinese scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a new bird flu strain is sometimes able to spread from person to person, but they are emphasizing that the virus still ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lab-grown hamburger passes taste test – sort of

LONDON – The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning – and maybe some cheese. Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave...

DATE: Aug 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World