Want to Live Longer? Get Off Your…Seat
By Lola Augustine Brown Spending too much time sitting down can cause you to age more quickly than if…
Health & Wellness
Virtual Reality Comes to Medicine
By Lola Augustine Brown Once nothing more than the stuff of science fiction movies, virtual reality (VR) technology is becoming more and more mainstream. VR headsets are being sold by everyone from Google, which offers a $20 cardboard headset you…
New Treatment can Halt Chemo Hair Loss
By Lola Augustine Brown Recent reports of two separate US studies suggest that a European technology gaining acceptance in North…
How To Cope With Sensitive Skin
DON’T LET ITCHY, IRRITABLE SKIN DRIVE YOU MAD By Wendy Haaf Does it seem as though your skin is becoming…
The Mediterranean Diet May Be Good for Your Brain, Too
By Lola Augustine Brown The virtues of the Mediterranean diet have long been extolled. We all know by now that…
Older First-Time Moms May Live Longer
ecently published results of a study that followed 20,000 women for up to 21 years showed that more than…
Chronic Insomniac? There’s an App for That
New research out of the University of Virginia has shown that a focused online therapy program can help insomniacs get…
A Vaccine for Alzheimer’s?
Promising initial results from a Swedish study have shown that a vaccination for Alzheimer’s disease may not be too far…
A Pint of Beer a Day Might Do Your Heart Good
Levels of good cholesterol decline with age, but study results recently presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association…
Writing Songs May Help Those With Dementia to Learn—and Remember
There’s a commonly held belief, backed by research, that once a person has dementia, his or her capacity to learn…