Getting your morning jolt can be tough in Hawarden, Iowa, where there are 2,600 people and not one Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s even harder when you’re too young to drive.
With classes, extracurricular activities and jobs, many college students find eating breakfast is the last thing on their agenda.
Summer camps just for kids with chronic diseases are booming – places to learn about epilepsy or finally meet someone else with Tourette’s tics or slice open a cow’s heart to see what’s wrong with their own.
The young caller’s voice is high-pitched and trembling. Her mother’s been drinking, she says. They got into a fistfight, so the girl grabbed her backpack and a cell phone and bolted, with little thought about where a 13-year-old could go on a cold night.
On Wednesday, a nationwide promotional event will take place at 100 eye-care offices around the country for 100 minutes. “Changing 100 Lives in 100 Minutes” is sponsored by Bausch & Lomb, the manufacturers of the crystalens needed for the cataract correction surgeries the 100 patients will receive.
A typical energy drink such as Red Bull has about 76 milligrams of caffeine, and local dieticians say this popular stimulant is too easy to abuse. Caffeine is being added to more products, and dieticians say the amount some people are consuming is excessive and could cause health problems.
IU started boosting its medical school class size last fall to counter a looming doctor shortage. Next, it wants to stretch its reach around the state.
From chicken nuggets to corn flakes, food prices at grocery stores and dinner tables could be headed even higher as farmers cut back on the land they’re planting in corn this spring.
Sexually transmitted infection prevalence is up, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. One in four females ages 14 to 19 have at least one of four common STIs: herpes, human papillomavirus, chlamydia and trichomoniasis, said Elizabeth Ann Chandler from the News Media Team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Furthermore, of the adolescent women with any STI, 15 percent have more than one, she added.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, but the IU Health Center is trying to fight the disease by educating students. The IU Health Center will offer free melanoma screenings to students from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hoosier room of Indiana Memorial Union.
One in three popular songs contains explicit references to drug or alcohol use, according to a new report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. But students and researchers are divided on how big an impact these references have.
You’ve just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor?
After 15 years of research, scientists have discovered the cause of muscle fatigue and now may have a drug to help treat it.
The plea is a common one: “Stop cracking your knuckles!” Whether it be from a parent concerned the habit might cause arthritis or simply from an annoyed friend, those who frequently crack have most likely been asked to stop.
When the new year begins and spring break is suddenly around the corner, unnaturally tanned skin and meal replacement bars become all too familiar sights among young people. The trends of visiting tanning salons and unhealthy crash diets become even more popular in college-aged adults as winter comes to a close.
I was one of the lucky thousands to catch the Spice Girls reunion tour a few weeks ago and it was everything I remembered it being a decade ago, only plus Ginger Spice (who had left the group) and minus some baby fat.
A link between stress and poor health has been known for years, but a new study highlights how for women, chronic daily stress might be more damaging than even major stressful events, such as divorce or job loss.
We’ve all been there. Bombarded with the thought of “I’ll just try this and hope for the best,” we open up that package of mysterious cheese from the back of the fridge and cautiously eat it for lunch.
It’s a common feeling. It’s the feeling of not wanting to get out of bed because of the cold weather. It’s looking outside the window and seeing snow on the ground. To most people, this feeling is the normal winter blues. To some, these feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety and sleep deprivation get in the way of living a normal life.
Last month, 38 microbiologists from institutions across the globe were elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology. Among them was IU’s own Patricia Foster, director of the molecular biology and genetics graduate program, for her work with the Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria.
