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Medicine
Ever had a “gut feeling” about something, or felt butterflies in your stomach when you’re nervous? These experiences hint at a powerful connection between our brains and our guts. But beyond emotions, there’s growing research showing that gut health can actually influence…
Prescription medicines and advances in medical treatment have helped people avoid disability and death caused by disease, lowered overall treatment costs, and has lowered death rates for heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other deadly diseases for several decades. Since 1972, the death…
The future of work in the US is uncertain. Artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and the move away from full-time employment are all factors that make it increasingly unpredictable. Yet there is one thing we do know. The US population is getting a…
Some people still believe massage therapy is an indulgence purely for relaxation. The health benefits of massage, however, have proven otherwise. Today we know that our mind-body connection means excessive stress brings on or exacerbates illness by reducing our own natural immunity…
Spirituality. A single word yet with many definitions due to the fact that it may comprise several aspects of human existence. Spirituality is often linked to the human spirit thus it is considered as a superior component for human existence. Furthermore, it…
Medical research can make for attention-grabbing headlines. But a recent audit of the types of medical studies making it into the media has found that lower-quality research is more likely to feature. News coverage of medical research ranks high for public interest…
On the day of the March for Science the NYT ran a column by Chad Terhune, a senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News and California Healthline, telling readers that the economy was dependent on the health care sector to generate employment. “The…
At the beginning of 2014, history was made at University Medical Center (UMC) in Utrecht, Netherlands: a skull of a 22-year-old woman was completely replaced by a tailor-made 3D printed plastic skull. The patient was suffering from a condition that thickens the…
The brain accomplishes some extremely amazing things. What other body organ can recognition that there are 24 teaspoons in the cup — as well as that unpleasant shirt most people wore within 1995? Some other creatures need brains, although non-e are very…
Every morning, “V” starts her day with “bulletproof coffee”: coffee blended with butter and coconut oil. Then she turns on some music, and she dances. A couple of years ago, V couldn’t do much of anything. Diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS)…