Research from the School of Family Life found that happily married couples have better health.
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New BYU research finds that people in happy marriages live less "in sickness" but enjoy more of life "in health."
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Lack of sleep and obesity have been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
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Lack of sleep and obesity have been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in...
Happy couple.
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Sex plays a central role in reproduction, and it can be pleasurable, but new findings suggest that it may serve an additional purpose: bonding partners together. A study of newlywed couples, published in Psychological...
Some ethnic groups experience cancer more often than others. These populations have the five highest incidence rates (cancer cases per every 100,000 people) in the Southland.Credit: Cancer in Los Angeles County: Trends by Race/Ethnicity 1976-2012 (Los Angeles County Cancer...
Common cold.
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According to a meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials zinc acetate lozenges may increase the rate of recovery from the common cold three fold. On the fifth day, 70% of the zinc lozenge patients...
Matthew Pase is lead author on two studies that link higher consumption of both sugary and artificially sweetened drinks to adverse brain effects.
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Americans love sugar. Together we consumed nearly 11 million metric tons of it in 2016,...
“I think certainly there’s some promise in developing probiotics that could be targeted to possibly fixing some of the effects of a high-salt diet, but people shouldn’t think they can eat fast food and then pop a probiotic, and...
Next to a dime for perspective, this small wire device is designed to hold open a surgically created hole in the heart of diastolic heart failure patients.
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Results presented today at the American...
Heart failure in the elderly is set to triple by 2060, according to new data from the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility (AGES) -- Reykjavík study presented at ESC Congress 2016 today.
"Heart failure is a common condition worldwide and increases with...
Autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease, according to new research.
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Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity -- in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues -- plays a role...
An image of a T-cell is shown.
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In an expanded, three-year clinical trial of 86 patients with colorectal and 11 other kinds of cancer that...
