David Cox

1 week ago | bbc.com | David Cox

Serenity Strull/ Getty ImagesGenetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues. Until the 1970s, the prevailing belief in psychiatry was that autism was a consequence of bad parenting.

1 week ago | bbc.com | David Cox

Your reaction times can reveal a surprising amount about what's going on inside your body, from your brain health to your risk of an early death. Of the course of our lifetimes, our reaction times will slowly wane. It's one of the reasons why athletic performance tends to drop off from our 30s onwards. Scientists are finding that being able to maintain an average reaction speed can be a key indicator that our brain is still in good working order, even into our latter decades.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | David Cox

At the age of 60, Geir Selbæk, a professor and research director at the Norwegian National Centre for Ageing and Health, reluctantly decided to start taking statins. “My father and his two brothers had all needed a coronary bypass operation at 60,” says Selbæk.

1 month ago | aol.co.uk | David Cox

If you took an average UK family, and lined up children, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, you’d likely notice a distinct shift in height from one generation to the next, especially in the male line. During the course of the 20th century, the average height in the UK rose by nearly 4in (10cm) on average, as living standards shifted, childhood starvation disappeared as a public health threat and common infectious diseases were eradicated.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | David Cox

In the spring of 2022, Tim Story’s doctor told him that he likely had just months to live. Story, a high school football coach in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, had been diagnosed with Stage 3 small bowel cancer two years earlier, at the age of 49, after mysterious pains in his side turned out to be a tumor in his small intestine. Surgery and several grueling rounds of chemotherapy and immunotherapy had failed to stop the cancer, which had spread to other organs.