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It’s no joke! Why faking a LAUGH could help you beat anxiety as research shows people feel less stressed after a good giggle English, maths, laughter — that’s the timetable some sixth-form students from one school in Brighton may be following after the introduction of laughter therapy classes to help with stress and anxiety. But […]
(HealthDay)—Young, Black Americans are experiencing significant spikes in obesity, type 2 diabetes and smoking, all risk factors for heart attack and stroke. Between 2007 and 2017—before the COVID-19 pandemic and the concerns it has created—hospitalized Black Americans aged 18 to 44 had sharp increases in these risks. They were also having higher rates of health […]
Eating is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and overeating is one of life’s growing problems. In 2019, researchers from The Stuber Lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine discovered that certain cells light up in obese mice and prevent signals that indicate satiety, or feeling full. Now comes a deeper dive into what […]
A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.K. and Brazil has partially solved the mystery of why some people are less naturally resistant to COVID-19 than others. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of the interferon system and the role it plays […]
Right now, in your body, lurk thousands of cells with DNA mistakes that could cause cancer. Yet only in rare instances do these DNA mistakes, called genetic mutations, lead to a full-blown cancer. Why? The standard explanation is that it takes a certain number of genetic “hits” to a cell’s DNA to push a cell […]
fizkes/Shutterstock By Azure Hall/Aug. 26, 2021 2:58 pm EDT Humans are a communal species, so it only makes sense that time spent in groups aids our well-being. At its most basic level, the family is the foundation of human community and time spent in familial groups cannot be understated. But, did you know spending time with […]
Failure is an unavoidable fact of life. Whatever way you try to avoid it, you’ll always experience the feeling of not succeeding in something, whether that’s a lower grade than you expected on a test, not landing a job interview or another disappointment. It’s in human nature to fail, and it sure doesn’t feel great. […]
There is almost nothing as blissful as an afternoon nap, yet many of us seldom have the opportunity to indulge in a nap outside of normal bedtime hours. Aside from simply leaving you feeling refreshed and ready to take on the rest of your day with a renewed vigor, many researchers have spoken of the […]
If we didn’t know what it would take to push a federal agency to lose its cool over social media, we might have finally found out what the trigger would be. In an uncharacteristically snarky tweet, the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for regulating both human and veterinary medicines and medical supplies took […]
(HealthDay)—A new study may help explain why people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience worsening disability while those with two related diseases do not. MS causes permanent brain and spinal cord scarring, and researchers investigated whether the same damage accompanies two rarer, similar diseases in which the immune system also attacks the central nervous system. The […]