A recent survey by psychologist and self-help author Robert Epstein found that 25% of our happiness hinges on how well we’re able to manage stress. The next logical question is, of course, how best can we reduce our stress?
Using a mobile phone may increase your risk for certain kinds of brain cancers. That was the scientific conclusion relayed today by a working group of 31 scientists from 14 countries meeting at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO/IARC) who completed a review of the available scientific evidence on cell-phone [...]
The New York Times today includes a moving personal story about overcoming opioid addiction. But while it describes one woman’s triumph, it also illustrates something the Institute of Medicine calls a “quality chasm” between effective addiction care, as supported by scientific research, and the treatments people actually receive.
We humans tend to think of ourselves as the only sentient beings capable of regret, a key emotion that helps keep us from making the same mistakes over and over. Now a new study shows that rhesus monkeys may be saddled with the same feelings of disappointment — at least when they lose at rock, [...]
So you’re searching online for a new place to live. You stumble across an affordable house in a nearby city that you’ve never visited. The house is in a neighborhood called North Town. A few minutes later, you find a similar house in the city’s South Town. Which one do you pick to visit first?
Alongside the terrible physical devastation that tornadoes have wrought in communities throughout the South and Midwest this spring lies an even deeper human tragedy: in some circumstances, a single parent — or both — has died, leaving a handful of children orphaned.
The problem with most health food is that nobody likes it — not least your own stomach. New research suggests that the stomach signals less satisfaction after eating “health food,” regardless of the actual fat and calories consumed. In contrast, foods that people perceive as indulgent and sinful produce a greater sense of fullness and [...]
Proportion of women who think the government's guidelines recommending against routine breast-cancer screening in women younger than 50 are “unsafe,” according to a recent poll by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Most women also overestimate their chances of developing the disease, the researchers found. In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [...]
Cambridge psychology professor and leading autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen is best known for studying the theory that a key problem in autistic disorders is “mind blindness,” difficulty understanding the thoughts, feelings and intentions of others.
—WALTER C. WILLETT, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, on the government's plan to scrap its decades-old and largely inscrutable food pyramid for a new symbol of healthy eating to be unveiled on Thursday. The new plate-shaped symbol will be divided into the basic food groups, with half the [...]
