Category: 4. Health

Many people think of college students as young adults living on campus and focused on developmental concerns, such as establishing new friends, feeling homesick, and academic pressure. Indeed, many campus support services are designed to fit these perceptions. For example, a 2024 report on Forbes.com outlined how many campus counseling centers were traditionally designed to treat developmental stress. However, because more students are now entering college with…

We’ve long been told that happiness is a mindset, a perspective, maybe even a daily practice. But something else is also deeply embodied, radical and accurate: happiness isn’t just in our heads, it’s in our nervous systems, too. From the firing of the prefrontal cortex to signals traveling along the vagus nerve, the body continually broadcasts cues about how safe, connected and emotionally stable it truly feels, whether or not we are…

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) co-led the study that…

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It has been just six months since President Trump has started his second term as Commander-in-Chief, and there have been profound changes in the healthcare landscape across…

In Alzheimer’s disease, proteins like amyloid beta form clumps, known as plaques, that damage the brain.

But in some people, immune cells called microglia break down these proteins before they can cause harm. This leads to fewer and smaller clumps — and much milder symptoms.

Researchers at UC San Francisco identified a…

The new substance repels both water and grease about as well as standard non-stick coatings — but it contains much lower amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a family of chemicals that have raised environmental and health concerns.

“The research community has been trying to develop safer…

Dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease are estimated to affect more than 57.4 million people worldwide, a number that is expected to almost triple to 152.8 million cases by 2050. The impacts on the individuals, families and caregivers and society at large are immense.

While there are some…

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A major new study led by the University of Sydney suggests that walking 7000 steps a day offers similar health benefits across several outcomes as walking 10,000.

Led by Professor Melody Ding from the School of Public Health, the study was published in The Lancet Public…

Sexual satisfaction may be one of the most overlooked predictors of healthy aging, and new research suggests it plays a far greater role in longevity and emotional well-being than most people realize. In a 2024 analysis published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, scientists found that sexual fulfillment is strongly linked to how well adults adjust to aging, influencing key markers of vitality, such as purpose, physical self-perception,…