Happily Marrieds Have Lower Blood Pressure

sumsung submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)

Happily married adults have lower blood pressure than singles with supportive social networks. Both men and women in happy marriages scored four points lower on 24-hour blood pressure than single adults. Having supportive friends did not translate into improved blood pressure for singles or unhappily marrieds.

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More than five million Americans have Alzheimer's

DanyC submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.reuters.com)

The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer's in 2000, a number expected to grow to 454,000 new cases a year by 2010.
PS:
Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. It starts out with mild memory loss and confusion but escalates into complete memory loss and an inability to care for oneself.
There is no cure and the handful of drugs that can treat Alzheimer's only slow its progression for a short time.

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Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise

Malaria fact file

davidd submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.nature.com)

How many people contract malaria? Which places are hardest hit? Has incidence or mortality been cut much in the past decades? Which has been more successful: prevention or treatment? How do you prevent malaria infections? What about making genetically modified mosquitoes that can't carry the disease?

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Peer reviewing the modern-day matchmaker: online dating sites begin to publish studies

Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)

eHarmony.com and Chemistry.com in particular are dying to be able to advertise their dating algorithms as "scientifically proven." And after years in the online dating market, they finally have enough data to perform, write and publish sociological studies.

But will these studies be the real thing? So far, eHarmony's only got one out there, despite having enough data for more. For all that these companies claim to want to be peer reviewed, I get the impression that they're being awfully selective with the information that they release.

The article brings up another interesting point

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Figures on H.I.V. Rate Expected to Rise

jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.nytimes.com)

More people in the United States are infected each year with the AIDS virus than previously thought, according to federal health officials.
Recently, many people doubt the report about the number of HIV infedted people, this article is about that too.

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