New Study Says Men Are Not Sex Crazed After All
Everyone knows the old urban legend that men think about sex every minute of the day, but now that appears to have been debunked. Men are not so sex crazed after all, say researchers from Ohio State University. Their research appears to discredit the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8, 000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. In fact, over the course of their study, the median number of young men's thoughts about sex stood at under 19 times per day.
Probiotics Reduce Infections For Patients In Intensive Care
Traumatic brain injury is associated with a profound suppression of the patient's ability to fight infection. At the same time the patient also often suffers hyper-inflammation, due to the brain releasing glucocorticoids in response to the injury. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care shows that including probiotics with nutrients, supplied via the patient's feeding tube, increased interferon levels, reduced the number of infections, and even reduced the amount of time patients spent in intensive care.
Vaccination With A 1-2 Punch Effective Against TB
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the microbe that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The only vaccine, BCG, is largely ineffective; ways to enhance its effectiveness are desperately needed. A team of researchers - led by Peter Andersen, at Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, and JoAnne L. Flynn, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, - has now developed a vaccine that they termed H56 that boosts the effects of vaccination with BCG in cynomolgus monkeys, reducing clinical disease and improving survival.