Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT)

Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) is episodes of rapid heart rate that start in a part of the heart above the ventricles. "Paroxysmal" means from time to time. The heart wil...

Drinker Identity And Brand Allegiance Used To Entice Underage Youth

While exposure to alcohol marketing is prevalent, and associated with both initiation and progression of alcohol use in underage youth, exactly how it works is not well understood. A new study of alco...

Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection

It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future.A presiden...

Alcohol marketers use drinker identity and brand allegiance to entice underage youth

While exposure to alcohol marketing is prevalent, and associated with both initiation and progression of alcohol use in underage youth, exactly how it works is not well understood. A new study of alco...

Moderate coffee consumption may reduce risk of diabetes by up to 25 percent

Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day may help to prevent type 2 diabetes according to research highlighted in a session report published by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee...

Saving coffee from a serious plant disease

Some of the world’s best coffee comes from the tropical highlands of Central and South America.  Recently these regions have experienced heavier rainfall.  This is probably due to climate chan...

Regular, moderate coffee consumption may help prevent type 2 diabetes

Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day may help to prevent type 2 diabetes according to research highlighted in a session report published by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee...

IgNobel Prize Winner in Fluid Dynamics: ARGH! I spilled my coffee in the hall again!

We’ve all been there. You’re heading in to work or to that meeting or down the hall with you coffee, and it NEVER fails. Splish splash and you’re leaving a little trail of coffee dot...

How Many People Could You Kill With All the Caffeine Consumed on Friends?

In a cup or two a day, the caffeine in coffee tweaks us out enough to be the driving force behind the workforce. Ingest all the coffee that they did on Friends, however, and you'll be asking yourself,...

Role of coffee in modulation of diabetes risk.

Coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. This association does not depend on race, gender, geographic distribution of the study populations, or the type of coffee c...

Effect of simultaneous consumption of milk and coffee on chlorogenic acids' bioavailability in humans.

Different studies have shown that milk may interact with polyphenols and affect their bioavailability in humans. The present study investigated the effect of the simultaneous consumption of coffee and...

Arabica and Robusta Coffees: Identification of Major Polar Compounds and Quantification of Blends by Direct-Infusion Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry.

Considering that illegal admixture of robusta coffee into high-quality arabica coffee is an important task in coffee analysis, we evaluated the use of direct-infusion electrospray ionization-mass spec...

Coffee melanoidins: structures, mechanisms of formation and potential health impacts.

During the roasting process, coffee bean components undergo structural changes leading to the formation of melanoidins, which are defined as high molecular weight nitrogenous and brown-colored compoun...

Coffee and endothelial function: a battle between caffeine and antioxidants?

Although coffee is largely consumed by adults in Western countries, controversy exists about its impact on the cardiovascular system. We recently demonstrated that caffeinated and decaffeinated espres...