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Vitamin D improves heart health
Vitamin D supplements may improve cardiovascular health and lowers the risk of heart disease, according a study presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Edinburgh. Vitamin D, which is both a vitamin and a hormone, helps control levels […]
Male and female brains look similar
Gender stereotypes don’t extend to the brain. Researchers prove that male and female brains look pretty much the same. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science researchers debunked the belief that the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that […]
Heartbreak is literally bad for the heart
Patients who are divorced, separated or widowed had an approximately 40% greater chance of dying or developing a new functional disability after a heart surgery than married patients, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the […]
Follow your passion for a successful career
Should you pursue your passion or strive toward a secure living? A new Tel Aviv University study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that the two objectives are not mutually exclusive — in fact, each feeds the other. […]
Early life stress fries brain’s reward circuits
A study shows that adults who are abused or neglected as children are almost twice as likely to experience depression. Researchers at Duke University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio recruited 106 adolescents, between the […]
Count your bites, drop the pounds
Counting the bites you take while you eat is the new weight loss technique. A new study from BYU health science researchers found people who counted bites over a month’s time lost roughly four pounds–just about what the CDC recommends […]
Nine-day sugar-free diet improved teens’ health
Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as nine days, according to a […]
Breastfeeding lowers breast cancer risk
Breastfeeding lowers the risks of getting hormone-receptor-negative (HRN) breast cancer by 20%, a large international study shows. Hormone-receptor-negative (HRN) breast cancers are more likely to be aggressive and life-threatening. This subtype is more commonly diagnosed in women under age 50. […]
New bandage may treat skin cancer
A radiotherapeutic bandage is being tested to treat skin cancer. Skin cancers are normally treated by surgically removing the tumors followed by radiation therapy to ensure all cancer cells are removed. Radiation therapy is also a primary treatment for inoperable […]
Learn new words while you sleep
You can’t learn new things in your sleep. Nevertheless, if you’ve been learning vocabulary in a foreign language, it can be highly effective to hear these words played over again while you sleep, as was already shown a year ago […]
