Study
HealthWatch: Study Raises Effectiveness Concerns For Whooping Cough Vaccine
As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main reason: The safer vaccine that has been in use since the 1990s loses effectiveness much faster than previously thought.
Study Finds Elevated Brain Disease Risk For NFL Veterans; League Donates $30M For Research
A study of former NFL players finds they were unusually prone to dying from degenerative brain disease, the latest indication that repeated blows to the head may cause serious trouble later on.
Study Finds Rock Music Makes Us Act Like Animals, Literally
A study published in the Journal of Biology Letters, within UCLA’s Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, found that distorted, jarring music shares the same characteristics as distress calls in animals…
Singing While Driving Can Lead To More Accidents Per Year, Study Finds
Study shows that people find it hard to sing and drive at the same time. And let’s not even get started on how many people get into accidents while checking out members of the opposite sex…
Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven
Bay Area drivers could one day be tracked using a GPS-like device in their cars and taxed per miles driven – a scenario which is part of a proposed long-range study aimed at finding ways to reduce traffic and pollution, while also raising revenues.
Viewers Turn To YouTube As A News Source
A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos…
New Quake Faults Uncovered West Of Lake Tahoe
Scientists studying earthquake faults in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe say new high-resolution imaging technology has uncovered more substantial seismic hazards than previously believed.
Bay Area Study Examines Cell Phones As Global Link To Clean Water, Sanitation
Globally, there are 1 Billion people without safe water, and over 2 Billion without proper sanitation.
HealthWatch: Hacking Into Body Metrics May Be Key To Better Health
A community of people is measuring and collecting every detail of their lives using new technology, and sharing their findings in the hopes of improving their health and the quality of their life.
Autism May Be Linked to Obesity During Pregnancy
Obesity during pregnancy might increase chances for having a child with autism, according to new study out of University of California, Davis.
Breaking News Photos
Weather Photos
Bay To Breakers
Warriors Pride
