Articles tagged with health

New research suggests the superficial appeal of governing by light touch founders in the health arena where so many “unhealthy nudges” are already in place.

Bacteria Working in the Shadows: E. coli

A program to ensure all American children get at least one good meal a day may lie behind their expanding waistlines. Oddly, a breakfast program does not.

New research finds that among the elderly, functional limitations are associated with an increased risk of dying — but only for those who don’t do volunteer work.

New research links diabetic symptoms with a reduced likelihood of forgiving others.

If I’m going to help pay your health care bills, you could at least try and eat better.

A growing movement looks to change development patterns — as a matter of public health.

New research indicates Transcendental Meditation may help reduce symptoms of depression, which could also lower the risk of heart disease.

More data comes in proving that, for American workers, specifically the older ones, job insecurity is bad for your health.

Don’t laugh: New research on baseball players suggests that the wider your smile, the longer you may live.

A new study of stressed students finds a link between positive expectations and immunological health.

Researchers find that poor smokers’ children are the victims of the habit: Their nutrition takes a hit when their parents divert precious resources to pay for tobacco.

How the paper of record used partial data to reach a wrong conclusion on infant death in Mississippi.

Researchers have found a protein that may be the immune system’s fountain of youth.

A different kind of health care reform is needed in America — how men treat themselves.

Understanding bears’ success at dozing through foodless winters may help human medical care or even impact interstellar flight.

How to change minds about the need for health care reform? Get out your handkerchief.

A new look at the link between religiosity and long-term health finds devoutness does delay death — but only for women.

In honor of Global Handwashing Day, we examine the hygiene of public restroom users and what motivates them to wash up.

A new study suggests body fat may moderate post-menopausal mental decline.

University professor Loren Toussaint wants to spread the tangible benefits of forgiveness.

Northwestern’s David Cella is leading a vast effort at better measuring pain, fatigue and outcomes. It may change the way researchers run clinical trials.

As summer comes to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, we take a look at the benefits of the unofficial required beverage for the Southern United States.

Researchers have a new way of tracking where disease hot spots are occurring, and, once again, it concerns an Apple a day …

Readers are impressed and distressed by the idea that racism ages blacks before their time.

New full-bodied research finds beer drinking increases bone mass in older women.

Having friendly animals comforting the afflicted seems intuitively sensible. Now researchers are confirming that with measurable results.

Study shows that encounters with perceived racial discrimination caused high levels of stress and depression in highly educated African Americans.

Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts? Apparently, yes.

If current projections of a warming planet prove accurate, researchers say the percentage of dangerously underweight newborns will increase significantly in the U.S. by the end of the century.

Perfectionism, as a way of life, tends to be self-defeating. New research suggests it may also be deadly.

Research shows that the wounds of rats heal better when the rodents are living in a comfortable, less stressful environment.

A drug used to treat alcoholics and heroin addicts shows promise in treating those addicted to theft.

As America — and the world — devolves into terminal lethargy, a multidisciplinary effort works to pep up the populace.

Amid gallons of competing studies about the benefits and banes of alcohol, the consistent message that moderation is a good course gets refined.

People who are generally pessimistic, anxious or prone to depression have an above-average chance of dying at every stage of their adult lives, according to a new study by researchers at the Mayo Clinic.

Although it’s no surprise that any activity is better than none, hiking has specific medicinal benefits.

Puzzled over health complications more persistent among African Americans than in other Americans, researchers invoke epigenetics.

Two new studies of psychological stress provide another reason we all need to unwind, and suggest an effective way of doing so.

Policymakers have experimented with of various ways of reducing excess alcohol consumption, but the most effective tool may be the simplest: Use targeted taxes to increase the price.

UPDATED: A policy brief finds increased obesity among the poor is likely tied to structural obstacles in better eating and exercising.

Can government incentives bring something besides fast food to South L.A.?

The EPA acknowledges, finally, that climate change will have public-health implications, increasing the incidence of heart disease, allergies, asthma, tropical diseases and … kidney stones.

How likely is it that you will receive treatment the medical literature says is best? Flip a coin. Evidence-based health care can improve those odds, save lives and cut health care costs dramatically.

Portland-area researchers find that investing in social capital improves health among the disadvantaged.

A Massachusetts architect and a personal solar power system — Portable Light — bring comfort and better medical chances to South African TB patients.

An unusual two-year analysis of grocery prices — based on the cost per calorie — reveals a nearly 20 percent rise in the cost of what are usually healthier foods, widening the already disturbing junk-food gap.