"We're shifting to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week society, and as a result we're increasingly not sleeping like we used to," said Najib T. Ayas of the University of British Columbia. "We're really only now starting to understand how that is affecting health, and it appears to be significant."

A large, new study, for example, provides the latest in a flurry of evidence suggesting tha...

BACK when the two Australian winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine suspected that the bacteria they were seeing in biopsies caused stomach inflammation and ulcers , critics insisted that the bacteria were just opportunists, not the culprits.

So one of the two, Dr. Barry J. Marshall, set out to prove the theory by following a traditional method of scientific research: he experime...

While players such as Thomas Griffin, Mo Brown and Chris Donaldson have grabbed headlines this season during Westside’s remarkable start, it’s those unsung guys who may be as much responsible for coach Ted Luckadoo’s best start in 22 seasons.

Players such as seniors Justin Keown, William Edwards, Najee Goodine, Jeffrey Lee, Bo Pickens and sophomore Lee Butler, have made the...

But before you think a pair of Georgia Bulldog parties in Atlanta seems unfair, one must quickly realize the extent to which the 'Dawgs earned their command position in the SEC East on Saturday.

From start to finish, Georgia controlled Tennessee ... on the line of scrimmage, in the turnover battle, in the field position battle, and in the war of pooch punting, where Gordon Ely-Kelso dest...

YOU may remember John Mighton from the middle of Good Will Hunting. He was the maths teacher who has a quiet word with the "impossibly brilliant" Matt Damon over a pile of text books. "Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be," he tells the boy genius. "They don't find teachers who believe in them. They get convinced they are stupid."

There's more to these lines than you m...

WHEN you go on vacation, you may feel less restrained about eating and your weight-loss efforts may take a break along with everything else. That's natural.

“Any deviation from your typical routine may cause you to overeat,” says Dr Catherine Champagne, a registered dietitian with Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge.

But if you don't want to gain weight while you'r...

This is very likely to be a tapeworm. They are very long and segmented in appearance. They belong to the worm class Cestoda and are common in children because kids tend to have poorer hygiene in general and have more contact with animals than adults.

There are many types of tapeworms. All of them contain both male and female sex organs.

A typical tapeworm goes through this particula...

Many elements of the Wildcats' 51-48 upset of the Badgers have been seen before. We've seen Brett Basanez work magic on a football field. We've seen Randy Walker come up with a great offensive game plan against a big-name opponent. We've seen the roof fall in on a Wisconsin defense, in a scenario all too similar to late-season losses at Michigan State and Iowa last year.

But the ingre...

Manipur is sports country, the people here are natural athletes. So the drift towards sport in her schooldays was par for the course, not the outcome of any rigorous planning. By her own admission, Mary says she played every game on offer in her village, excelling in athletics. ‘‘I was never interested in books, and had no time for them'', she says.

She still doesn't. Only later this ...

(Oct 8, 2005): If the United States has had a foreign policy since 2001, it has been kept highly secret. Any evidence that such a policy exists has been obscured by the lack of communication as to who would deliver the country's message and to whom.

During Bush’s first term, Karen Hughes, the president's longtime adviser and friend, left the White House to return to Texas to attend to...