Category: Features
For seniors, exercise slow brain aging by 10 years
People who reported light to no exercise experienced a decline equal to 10 more years of aging as compared to people who reported moderate to intense exercise, according to a population-based observational study published in the March 23, 2016, online […]
Sterile Box offers safer surgeries
Rice University students and their mentors have created a sterilization station for surgical instruments that can help minimize risk of infections to patients anywhere in the world. The station built into a standard 20-foot steel shipping container houses all the […]
Treat withdrawal symptoms to help cannabis users quit
Treating cannabis withdrawal symptoms such as nervousness and cravings will help users to quit the habit, a study says. Researchers at the University of Illinois found that 85 percent of people who met the criteria for a diagnosis of cannabis […]
Can too much talent harm a team?
Research from Columbia Business School shows that teams with the most talent don’t always get the best results. Professor Adam Galinsky, the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, examined a variety of team-based situations — including […]
Mayo Clinic app helps patients lose weight
Heart attack recovery patients who used a digital health app were lost four times as much weight than those who underwent 12 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation alone. The study included 80 patients — 68 years old, on average — who […]
iPads can help the visually impaired
A study recently described in Good Times Magazine provides the first experimental evidence that the Apple iPad is as good as technology traditionally used in reading rehabilitation for individuals with visual impairment. And that could help with stigmatization of the […]
Japanese diet linked to longer life
Closer adherence to Japanese dietary guidelines is associated with a lower risk of death from all causes and death from cardiovascular disease, particularly stroke, finds a study published by The BMJ today. The findings suggest that balanced consumption of grains, […]
Body language reveals personality
A team of experts, including from the University of Exeter, has shown that people who display similar behavioural characteristics tend to move their bodies in the same way. The new study suggests that each person has an individual motor signature […]
New method measures nicotine delivery from e-cigarettes
A recent study that evaluated a new method for measuring nicotine delivery from e-cigarettes found that ‘first-generation’ e-cigarettes, which use ‘cartomizers’, deliver nicotine less consistently than later-generation e-cigarettes, which use ‘atomizers’ that vaporize liquid contained in a refillable tank. The […]
High-intensity training could hurt
A study by Canadian and European researchers found signs of stress in the muscle tissues of their non-athlete, untrained subjects after ultra-intense leg and arm cycling exercises. Perhaps more concerning, researchers reported the untrained subjects had a weakened ability to […]
