AnatomyStuff Blog

A team of US scientists have discovered that including the calories with pictures of food, for example, on a menu, can help people make healthier food choices. The scientists used a MRI scanner to detect brain reactions to the pictures to enable them to understand what effect this could have. The article was published in PLOS ONE and is an...Read More

The term ‘ear’ is often taken to mean the outside of the ear, but the anatomy of the ear extends to the hearing apparatus on the inside of the head too. The ear function is not only to hear, but to enable the brain to determine the position of the head and body and also maintain balance. The anatomy of...Read More

Recent medical studies have agreed that in order for people to live a long and healthy life, they need to get up and exercise more. Sedentary lives create health issues. Most countries offer government-recommended guidelines to help people know how much exercise they need to do, but there are many different kinds of exercise and it can be confusing to...Read More

In the second part of 2018, health news stories became more weird.  Here are more examples of the wonderful world of health studies:

July 2018 - Scientists ask for ticks to be mailed in to help research
Scientists got more than they bargained for, when they asked citizen scientists to mail in ticks that they had found, when either the people or...Read More

Reading lots of scientific studies enables us to bring you the very best, especially on the subjects of health and the environment, which can affect health. Occasionally stories come up that seem to add to our knowledge of the human body and disease, while others are just weird! Here is a selection of the health news stories from 2018, some...Read More

A team of scientists have been investigating why people continue to drink tea, coffee and alcohol despite their bitter taste. They wanted to understand the biological aspect of taste. The drinks are often the subject of studies which conclude that they are beneficial or harmful to people’s health, but don’t often refer to the taste. Taste tests can be expensive...Read More