August 3, 2010
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hypertension at early adulthood and that teenage boys are three to four times more likely to develop high blood pressure in early adulthood than girls. According to the study published in Hypertension: The American Heart Association Journal , the research team assessed how teenage boys and girls with normal blood pressure might progress into becoming young adults with hypertension.
December 15, 2009
For an increasing number of Americans, life's a blur. That's according to a population-based study published Monday showing that rates of myopia - difficulty seeing distant objects - are soaring. The trend is matched in many other countries, but the cause is not clear. Some suspect both an increase in close-up work time (computer use) and a decrease in time spent out of doors. Researchers at the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, found that rates of myopia, also called nearsightedness, in people ages 12 to 54 increased from 25 percent in 1971 to 1972 to 41.6 percent in 1999 to 2004.
April 18, 1990
Albert Einstein once said that "a person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so." He had a point. When Einstein came up with his first theory of relativity, he was just 26. Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution in his late 20s and early 30s. Isaac Newton figured out universal gravitation at 24. Indeed, studies have repeatedly shown that in a wide variety of fields, people are at their most productive and creative in early adulthood and then undergo a steady decline.
February 22, 2004
All That Is Gone. Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Hyperion. $23.95. 272 pp. Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's leading post-colonial writer and one of the most important novelists in the world, although he is not well known in America. He is also a political hero in Indonesia, where he was imprisoned for two years by the Dutch colonial government after the nationalist uprising that followed World War II, and later for 14 years by the Suharto regime, which objected to his leftist essays and social criticism.
February 11, 1988
NEW YORK -- Contrary to the expectations of many experts, a new study indicates that boys who are hyperactive do not always have emotional or intellectual difficulties when they grow up. Half of a group of 101 boys who were diagnosed as hyperactive between the ages of 6 and 12 were perfectly normal by the time they reached late adolescence and early adulthood, according to the study in the current Archives of General Psychiatry. Hyperactivity is much more frequent in boys than in girls.
October 29, 2000
Treat yourself on Tuesday. After all, it is Halloween. But the trick is not to overindulge. Take a brisk walk or do some chores around the house after you fulfill your "candy fix." Take it a step further and figure out what your favorite treat says about you and your personality. Everyone has a favorite candy bar and according to researchers, that preference says loads about you. According to Dr. Alan R. Hirsch, director of the Smell and Taste Treatment Research Foundation and author of What's Your Food Personality, eating a certain candy bar singles out certain qualities, some good and some bad, about your sweet tooth.