Category: 4. Health

WASHINGTON — An investigation into the loss of a privately operated methane monitoring satellite could not identify a single root cause for the spacecraft’s failure earlier this year.

MethaneSAT, a mission led by the Environmental…

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• A British mom of 3 had part of her lung removed after doctors told her they were “99.9%” sure she had cancer, but they couldn’t carry out a biopsy due to Covid-19 restrictions at the time

• Two weeks later, 53-year-old Erica Hay was told…

Dental fillings aren’t a pleasant way to fix cavities, but they’re necessary to fill in holes and prevent further damage. But now a research team at the University of Nottingham in the UK is working on a gel that could help prevent tooth…

Many assume that combining exercise with the diabetes drug metformin delivers double the health benefits, but new research from Rutgers University challenges that assumption.

In a 16-week trial, the study found that metformin…

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker.

But this common metaphor is misleading, according to a meta-analytic review from 2024….

By stimulating the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, it lowers the heart rate and blood pressure while supporting digestion and the immune function. That’s why, Etienne says, “we really want to try to get that vagus nerve…

When Donna Rigby began feeling short of breath, she brushed it off. It was springtime, and she figured allergies were to blame. A nagging cough came and went, and sometimes she felt winded just walking from her car to the door.

“I wasn’t…