May 21, 2015 | Brain & Behavior, Health
Early socioeconomic adversity, such as poverty, low education and disadvantaged community, has both direct and indirect long-term effects on young adults’ cardio-metabolic disease risk, according to researchers within the University of Georgia College of Family...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Experiences of loneliness and social isolation can lead to increased health care use among older adults, according to new research from the University of Georgia College of Public Health. The study, published online in the American Journal of Public Health, found that...
Apr 1, 2015 | Brain & Behavior, Health
Patients advised to lose weight by their physicians dropped more pounds on average than those who didn’t receive a recommendation, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in the journal Economics & Human Biology. Using a national...
Feb 11, 2015 | Earth, Energy & Environment
More tornadoes will be commonplace by the year 2080 as a result of a changing climate, according to a new study from University of Georgia geography researchers. They used climate models to examine severe weather patterns in the past-tornadoes, large hail and damaging...
Jan 15, 2015 | Life & Non-humans
Human activities are disrupting the migration patterns of many species, including monarch butterflies. Some monarchs have stopped migrating to their traditional overwintering sites in Mexico, remaining in the southern U.S. to breed during the winter. A new study by...
Jan 8, 2013 | Health, Life & Non-humans, Uncategorized
On the list of undesirable medical conditions, a parasitic worm infection surely ranks fairly high. Although modern pharmaceuticals have made them less of a threat in some areas, these organisms are still a major cause of disease and disability throughout much of the...
May 19, 2012 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans, Uncategorized
The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium....
Apr 30, 2012 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans, Uncategorized
In a single new scientific publication, 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from islands in the Caribbean, have been discovered and scientifically named. According to Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University and the leader of the...
Jan 17, 2012 | Health, Uncategorized
University of Florida researchers have discovered a key amino acid essential for human nutrition is also an effective insecticide against caterpillars that threaten the citrus industry. The Lime Swallowtail, or Citrus Swallowtail, is a well-known agricultural pest...
