The Pathology of Love

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The unpalatable truth is that falling in love is, in some ways, indistinguishable from a severe pathology. Behavior changes are reminiscent of psychosis and, biochemically speaking, passionate love closely...

The Lit Chick Show looks at Depression Cookies

In this edition of the show, novelist and host, Sylvia Massara, features a mother and daughter writing team, and their book Depression Cookies.Abby is buckling under the weight of a husband who is climbing the...

You're born gay, and that's that according to QMUL's Dr. Rahman

Dr. Qazi Rahman Queen Mary University of London's assistant professor in Cognitive Biology whose research interests include Cognitive Biology and the Psycho-biology of human sexual orientation, claims in Gay by...

Pretty Women Make Men Feel Better

Just a five minute talk with a pretty woman raises a man's testosterone levels by 14 percent, making him feel better and more alert. A new study shows that chatting with women raises the levels of the hormones...

Women With High Testosterone Take Financial Risks

Scientists at the University of Chicago conducted an experiment involving 500 business students and found that women with high testosterone levels take more financial risks than women with lower levels.  Testosterone hormones are more usually associated with men, but...

Mother Jonas on her Sons: "They are men. They have desires"

Denise Jonas, mother of the Jonas Brothers, told Good Housekeeping magazine, "They are men. They have desires." Denise and her famous boys graced the cover of the July issue of Good Housekeeping with corressponding article shedding some light on the family's dynamic and the...

Are We Killing Ourselves With Water?

It's funny how the mind works. I've always thought that I prefer bottled water to tap water, and prefer the water that pours from the door of my refrigerator to bottled water. An interesting and somewhat disturbing...

Livestock Farming One of the Main Menaces for the Environment.

By, Uwe Paschen. Livestock Farming one of the main menaces of the environment today. Farming and Livestock farming should be Ecological and not a major polluter one would think, after all, we are dealing with...

US 'pregnant man' expecting again.......questioning nature?

Natural law is at challange again, this time by a male who is ready to give birth to child. " Thomas Beatie, the US "pregnant man" who gave birth to a daughter in June, is expecting his second child. The...

Breast Cancer 'Not Linked' to IVF

The high levels of hormones used in IVF treatment have been linked in the past with fears that they may cause an increased risk of breast cancer. This study of women in the Netherlands appears to show that there...

Migraines may cut breast cancer risk by 30%

Women who suffer from migraines may reduce their risk of developing breast cancer by 30%!  Researchers from the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that women who had a history of migraines had...

T-shirt sniffing the way to a woman's heart

Forget after-shave. Research shows that women really are attracted to the natural body smells of men and in particular to men who smell distinctly different to themselves.Other research has shown us that we are...

Breast cancer vaccine is possible, says expert

The success of the HPV vaccine to protect against cervical cancer could be followed by a vaccine against breast cancer. Professor Valerie Beral's research has shown that childbirth and breastfeeding helps prevent...

New Drug for End-Stage Prostate Cancer Developed

"Scientists uncover a breakthrough drug for the treatment of the severe prostate cancer that claims to be more effective than chemotherapy. "

Drug for deadly prostate cancer

British researchers have made a dramatic breakthrough against a lethal form of prostate cancer. Trials of a new pill have shown that it can shrink tumours in up to 80 per cent of cases, and end the need for...

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