Dementia Risk Tied to Sedentary Lifestyle
People 60 and older who spent more time being sedentary — passively watching TV, for example — had a higher risk of incident all-cause dementia, prospective data suggested. The study followed about 50,000 U.K. Biobank participants living in England, Scotland, or Wales for nearly 7 years. Participants wore a wrist accelerometer for a week to […]
Link found between childhood television watching and adulthood metabolic syndrome
A University of Otago study has added weight to the evidence that watching too much television as a child can lead to poor health in adulthood. The research, led by Professor Bob Hancox, of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, and published this week in the journal Pediatrics, found that children who watched more […]
10 Myths About Mental Illness in Crime Fiction
I’m the rare girl who went to medical school with a love of watching whodunits and ended up — 10 gruelling years later — a forensic psychiatrist. Forensic psychiatry is the most thrilling job imaginable, but forensic psychiatrists in mysteries and crime TV have some very different roles than we do in real life. We […]
Opinion | ‘Everybody Is a Little Bit Anxious’: What We Heard This Week
“Everybody is a little bit anxious, and they are watching this.” — William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on a study showing mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a mink farm in Spain. “We know that alcohol-based hand sanitizer kills more bugs than hand-washing removes.” — Janet Glowicz, PhD, […]
Are Doctors or Professional Athletes Better Off Financially?
I’ve always loved playing and watching sports of all kinds. So, it may make sense that I’m also interested in the financial lives of professional athletes. And the more I learned, the more I realized how similar they are to the financial lives of physicians. But we’ll get to that later. How many times have […]
Top 6 Financial Alternatives to Watching the Stock Market
If it’s up, watching the stock market can lead to false confidence, bubbles, and castles in the air. Maybe even worse though, if it is down (as it currently is), watching the stock market can lead you to sell while the market is low. Both of these actions are bad for your financial health and […]
Please Stop Putting Apple Cider Vinegar On Your Penis
If you’re watching porn, the last thing you’re probably paying attention to are the ads. But, if your eyes wander away from the videos for a second, you’ll see a bizarre claim about apple cider vinegar. Images of highly veiny animated penises being stuck into bottles of apple cider vinegar accompany the text “This Weird […]