Category: 4. Health

“Avoid screens before bed” is one of the most common pieces of sleep advice. But what if the real problem isn’t screen time − it’s the way we use social media at night?

Sleep deprivation is one of the most widespread yet overlooked public health issues, especially among young adults and adolescents.

Despite needing eight to 10 hours of sleep, most adolescents fall short, while nearly two-thirds of young adults regularly get less than the recommended seven to nine…

Agricultural employers who provide farmworkers with health insurance earn higher profits, even after accounting for the cost of that coverage. In addition, farmworkers who get health insurance through their employers are more productive and earn more money than those who do not.

These are the key findings from our study published in the March 2025 issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

To conduct this research, we crunched over three decades of data from the Labor…

CVS Health chief executive officer David Joyner Tuesday…

Walgreens Boots Alliance Tuesday reported a $2.8 billion loss in its second quarter thanks to a large impairment charge related to its struggling doctor-staffed clinic investment in VillageMD.

Walgreens fiscal second quarter results…

On average, Americans pay about twice what other countries do for prescription drugs. Thanks to President Trump’s aggressive tariffs and the global trade war they are inciting, they might soon pay even more.

Last week, Trump made good on a core campaign promise to enact sweeping tariffs, slapping a baseline of 10% tax on imports from every country, with China,…

Longevity has become a popular buzzword in anti-aging conversations, including those related to real estate. Simply put, this approach asks how the places where we live can help us stay young, energetic and vibrant. The key, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Southern California’s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, may lie in real estate’s long-standing mantra: Location, location, location.

“People…

Older adults who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who didn’t receive the vaccine. The corresponding study was published in Nature. 

Previous research based on health records suggests a link between the shingles vaccine and lower rates of dementia. These studies, however, suffered from a major source of bias: vaccinated people also tend to be more health conscious, meaning that…

The gene in question, FLCN, is linked to a condition known as Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, symptoms of which include benign skin tumours, lung cysts, and an increased risk of kidney cancer.

In a study published today in the journal Thorax, a team…

In today’s fast-paced work culture, the traditional boundaries between professional and personal life are increasingly blurred. The idea of work-life balance—where work and personal time are neatly divided—has given way to a more dynamic model: work-life integration. But what does science say about how our brains adapt to this shift?

As researchers uncover the neuroscience of stress, rest and…

In the twenty-first century, women are achieving more than ever before. They’re breaking barriers in boardrooms, earning degrees at unprecedented rates and reshaping leadership across industries. On the surface, the arc of progress looks promising.

And yet—a quieter, more unsettling trend is emerging.

Despite these extraordinary gains, recent research published in PNAS Nexus highlights two deeply…