A new study examines the deep benefits of meditation and yoga.
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It's been debated for a long time, can yoga reverse DNA reactions? Mind-body interventions (MBIs) such as meditation, yoga and Tai Chi don't simply relax...
Jeffrey Litt, D.O., assistant professor of surgery at the MU School of Medicine, is lead author of the study.
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According to the National Institutes of Health, more than six million cases of chronic wounds...
The effect of sleep and social isolation on protein folding.
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Social isolation has been linked to a wide range of health problems, as well as a shorter lifespan in...
First generation cephalosporins -- antibiotics introduced as a treatment against bacterial infections in 1963 -- now show promise for tuberculosis (TB) therapy, according to new research published in Scientific Reports.
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the most deadly infectious...
New findings are important because they offer a new perspective on the cause of race-based bias.
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Two studies by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and...
Eating yogurt may help keep bones healthy.
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The largest observational study to date of dairy intakes and bone and frailty measurements in older adults has found that increased yogurt consumption was associated with a higher...
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...
The world remains "grossly underprepared" for outbreaks of infectious disease, which are likely to become more frequent in the coming decades, warn a team of international experts in The BMJ.
They reviewed reports on the recent Ebola virus outbreak in...
Study participants in a series of experiments conducted by Cameron Anderson, a professor of management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Aaron Lukaszewski, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, overwhelmingly equated physical strength with higher status...
Measles is the fifth vaccine-preventable disease to be eliminated from the Americas, after the regional eradication of smallpox in 1971, poliomyelitis in 1994, and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in 2015.Credit: © julien_harneis / Flickr
The Region of the Americas...
This is researcher Nonie Finlayson about to enter the fMRI scanner.
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We live in a three-dimensional world, but everything we see is first recorded on our retinas in only two dimensions.
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So how does the...
