Category: 4. Health

More talk and fewer pills are being employed to help Americans maintain their mental health, a new study says.

Psychotherapy is assuming a larger role in mental health care,…

Sudden cardiac death causes about half of the roughly 500,000 cardiovascular deaths that happen every year in the US. The vast majority of these deaths are due to coronary artery disease (CAD). Although there are treatments that can prevent mortality, many people never use them because they don’t know there is a problem. But scientists have now created a better method for predicting CAD compared to current methods. When it was developed, the method…

Doctors often start exams with the so-called “eyeball test”—a snap judgment about whether the patient appears older or younger than their age, which can influence key medical decisions.

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Spend too long on social media and you might start to hear the term “cortisol face” used to describe someone with supposedly puffy eyes or cheeks. The phrase describes the physical signs that some believe result from prolonged stress, particularly elevated levels of the hormone cortisol. It’s often used to encourage people to do something about their stress…

Last week, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Jennifer Nesheiwat to be the Surgeon General of the United States. Instead, he nominated Dr. Casey Means, a 37-year-old wellness…

Have you ever felt an unexpected sense of calm while walking barefoot on grass? Or noticed your stress begin to fade as you stood ankle deep in the ocean? If so, you may have unknowingly “grounded” yourself to the Earth.

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Meta recently announced it will be using artificial intelligence to detect teen accounts on Instagram, identify whether they are lying about their age and then switch their accounts from standard to teen accounts. AI will use engagement data as well as signals…

Cancer is typically thought of as a disease of aging. That is changing, unfortunately. Early-onset cancer is surging in people under age 50. Cancer is now a disease young people increasingly need to worry about.

And it’s not just one or two rare malignancies. A new U.S. government study found that the…

Over 70% of patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage, often presenting with large volumes of ascites. This ascites fluid not only supports…

In a unique legal challenge, the Dutch…