Sitting More Linked to Increased Feelings of Depression, Anxiety
Iowa State University via Newswise – AMES, Iowa – As people adhered to stay-at-home orders or self-isolated during the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, daily commutes turned into shuffles between the…
Roswell Park Researchers Identify Key Link Between Stress and Cancer
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center via Newswise – BUFFALO, N.Y. — Stress can have a significant negative effect on health, but our understanding of how stress impacts the development and progression…
“Mood-Lifting” Mushrooms? Intriguing New Study Links Mushroom Consumption with Lowered Depression Risk
Lori Alton via NaturalHealth365 – If you’re feeling a little more “down in the dumps” lately, you have plenty of company. In a disturbing – but unsurprising – report, the U.S.…
UK Gives OK to Merck’s Breakthrough Anti-COVID Pill, Pfizer Announces Its Antiviral Pill Works Too
CBN News – The United Kingdom granted conditional authorization Thursday to the first pill officially shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It’s the first country to OK the treatment from drugmaker Merck, but it…
Potential ALS Drug Gets Boost Toward Preclinical Trials
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – A new class of small molecules for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases, is being developed at…
Art Therapy and Teaching Through Art Can Contribute to Wellbeing of Students
Estonian Research Council via News-Medical – The doctoral dissertation focuses on school factors that affect the subjective wellbeing of school-aged children and how art can contribute to the wellbeing of students. The…
Chemicals Found in Everyday Products Found to Be Harmful to Fertility
University at Albany, State University of New York via Newswise – ALBANY, N.Y. (Nov. 1, 2021) – Three studies led by a University at Albany PhD student found that a group of…
Curing Canker Sores with Diet
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – Does excluding dairy products, food additives, and gluten-containing grains from one’s diet help those with recurring canker sores (aphthous ulcers)? Recurring canker sores are…
Do You Have a Ticking Time Bomb in Your Chest That Could Cause a Stroke?
Walla! via The Jerusalem Post – More than 30,000 Israelis suffer from atrial fibrillation without knowing it. This is an arrhythmia, a fluctuation in the normal heart rate that is…
Merging AI With Targeted Electrical Brain Stimulation to Improve Specific Human Brain Functions
University of Minnesota Medical School via News-Medical – In a pilot human study, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital show it is possible to improve specific…
Scientists Find INTRICATE Connection Between Breast Cancer and Depression
Stephanie Woods via NaturalHealth365 – It is estimated that 1 in 8 women in the United States will develop breast cancer at some point in her lifetime. That’s about 13% of…
Flavonoids in Strawberries May Hold the Key to Slowing Aging and Preventing Degenerative Disease
Lori Alton via NaturalHealth365 – There is one point on which experts in both alternative and Western medicine wholeheartedly agree: brightly-colored fruits and vegetables – such as purple Concord grapes, brilliant…
Tissue Engineering Could Provide Diabetes Cure
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – A novel approach to treating type 2 diabetes under development at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology uses tissue engineering to create muscle cells that absorb…
What Are the Consequences of Sleep Deprivation?
Walla! via The Jerusalem Post – Many doctors have recently shared difficult and disturbing stories about mistakes they made due to lack of sleep. We asked Dr. Liora Berzag-Peru to explain…
The Power of Vitamin D: What Experts Already Know (and Are Still Learning) About the ‘Sunshine Vitamin’
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston via Newswise – It’s no secret that vitamin D is critical to balancing many areas of health. But from pediatric broken bones to cluster…
