TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — They say money can’t buy happiness – and now a new study of Indigenous peoples around the world backs up that assertion. People living in small-scale societies on the fringes of the modern world lead lives as happy and satisfying as folks fromContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests healthy lifestyles can help stave off dementia, perhaps by building a resilient ‘cognitive reserve’ in the aging brain. The study was based on the brain autopsies on 586 people who lived to an average of almost 91. Researchers compared eachContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Police killings of unarmed Black people are robbing the Black community of a precious commodity – sleep. Black adults across the United States suffer from sleep problems after they’re exposed to news of killings that occur during police encounters, a new study publishedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — If you’re over 65, you likely struggle sometimes to hear conversations clearly, but ignoring that may prompt even more serious health problems, experts say. If left unchecked, hearing loss can lead to social isolation and depression — two conditions known to raise dementiaContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Accessing mental health care via telehealth boomed during the pandemic, and it continues to be a valuable resource for patients. However, it could still be tough to find, depending on the clinics available in your area, new research finds. “We found considerable variationContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Even mild cases of COVID can trigger insomnia in most people, a new study reports. About three out of four people with mild COVID (76%) reported experiencing insomnia following their illness. Further, nearly one in four (23%) said they’d experienced severe insomnia, accordingContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Dementia seems like a disorder that’s always haunted the human race. But this form of severe memory loss is actually a modern malady, if classical Greek and Roman physicians are to be believed. A new analysis of ancient Greek and Roman medical textsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Advanced brain recording techniques have revealed how neurons in the human brain work together to produce speech. The recordings provide a detailed map of how people think about what words they want to say and then speak them aloud, researchers report in theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans are terribly lonely, a new poll reveals. Among U.S. adults, about one in three said they feel lonely at least once a week. Worse, one in 10 Americans say they feel lonely every day, results show. Younger people are more likely toContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A much anticipated government study finds that military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina between 1975 and 1985 face at least a 20% higher risk for certain cancers than those stationed elsewhere. Why the increased risk? For decades, the drinking waterContinue Reading