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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The Rice Haptic Rocker uses a rotating arm to brush a soft rubber pad over the skin of the arm. The more a prosthetic hand closes, the more the pad brushes the skin.
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Engineers working to add...
Previous studies have suggested that early life stress increases the risk for depression and other psychiatric syndromes, but the neurobiology linking the two has remained elusive until now.
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Early life stress encodes lifelong susceptibility to stress...
Eating nuts may reduce the risk of heart disease.
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People who regularly eat nuts, including peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease compared to people who...
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The value of sanitation at reducing child mortality in many low income countries has been substantially underestimated according to recent research.
A study by Prof Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Annette Prüss-Ustün from The...
This is the first study of its kind using medical images and artificial intelligence.
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A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming...
Endocrine disrupting chemicals interfere with hormone action to cause adverse health effects in people.Credit: Image courtesy of NYU Langone Medical Center
Annual healthcare costs and lost earnings in the United States from low-level but daily exposure to hazardous chemicals commonly...
Drivers who used alcohol, marijuana, or both were significantly more likely to be responsible for causing fatal two-vehicle crashes compared to drivers who were involved in the same crashes but used neither of the substances.
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The human brain actively develops until a person reaches their early twenties. Studies suggest that adults who smoked pot regularly during adolescence exhibit reduced neural connectivity in regions responsible for memory, learning and inhibitions.
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Drinking four cups of coffee each day can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people, new research suggests.
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Higher coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of death, according to research...
Verena Schuenemann at the Palaeogenetics Laboratory, University of Tuebingen.
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An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and...
