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Newswise – Daily gargling with plain water will ward off colds. You don’t even need to gargle with a disinfectant mouthwash. Just in time for the cold and flu season, Japanese researcher Dr. Kazunari Satomura has discovered that the common cold can be prevented over 30% of the time just by daily gargling with water. Kazunari?s team studied 387 healthy volunteers, age 18 to 65. They were randomly assigned to gargling water or gargling with an antiseptic or doing nothing.
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Newswise – When is a medical emergency really an emergency? Not during key Boston Red Sox games, according to the Children’s Hospital in Boston. Using Nielsen ratings, they found that the bigger the game, the quieter the emergency room.

The researchers tracked hourly visit rates at six Boston-area emergency rooms during the each of the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series games. They plotted these rates against television viewership as indicated by local Nielsen ratings. During the lowest-rated games, when the Sox were losing and facing probable elimination, visits to the emergency room were about 15% higher than expected.
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We recently reported on the most sinful towns in the US. There’s an old adage that says that cleanliness is next to Godliness, but for modern folk, it’s easy to be clean, so most of us would substitute “exercise” for “cleanliness.” If you believe that exercise is good for you, instead of lying around like a couch potato, then you need to move to a place where you can get plenty of it. According to a new study, residents of cool, dry Montana are the most likely to get enough physical activity, while residents of hot, steamy areas like Puerto Rico get the least.
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According to a new study published in the new issue ofApplied Physiology, six minutes of intense exercise a weekworks as well as six hours. No time to go to the gym? Cutyour workout down to two minutes a day! But use that timewell: Ride as fast as you can on an exercise bike in four30-second bursts of speed.
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