Health News
Center to study effects of plastics chemicals on children's health
Published Date:October 21, 2010
A new research center based at the University of Illinois will investigate whether regular exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates chemicals widely used in plastics and other consumer products can alter infant and adolescent development, cognition or behavior.
Published Date: October 21, 2010
Team to study health effects of botanical estrogens
Published Date:September 7, 2010
An ongoing research initiative into the health effects of botanical estrogens will get an $8 million boost from the National Institutes of Health. The Botanical Research Center, based at the University of Illinois, will draw on the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of researchers to address the many unknowns associated with use of botanical estrogens.
Published Date: September 7, 2010
Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function
Published Date:August 26, 2010
A group of professional couch potatoes, as one researcher described them, has proven that even moderate exercise in this case walking at ones own pace for 40 minutes three times a week can enhance the connectivity of important brain circuits, combat declines in brain function associated with aging and increase performance on cognitive tasks.
Published Date: August 26, 2010
Flexible electronics could help put off-beat hearts back on rhythm
Published Date:March 24, 2010
Arrhythmic hearts soon may beat in time again, with minimal surgical invasion, thanks to flexible electronics technology developed by a team of University of Illinois researchers, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Northwestern University. These biocompatible silicon devices could mark the beginning of a new wave of surgical electronics.
Published Date: March 24, 2010
Expert says state policies can have an impact on public health
Published Date:March 12, 2010
In a new study, Tom ORourke, a professor emeritus of community health at the University of Illinois, examined 25 variables in four categories to see how state policies might affect residents health.
Published Date: March 12, 2010
