Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Vanessa McMains, Johns Hopkins University
Just one dose of a hallucinogenic drug offers many cancer patients up to six months of relief from disease-related anxiety or depression.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue, University of Arizona
In a remote area of Tanzania, Hadza men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt for their next meal. Meanwhile, Hadza women gather tubers, berries, and other fruits.
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- Written by: Taylor Graham, Johns Hopkins University
Safer styling practices and shampoo and conditioning choices can help remedy a type of hair loss and damage that often afflicts African Americans, researchers say.
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- Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University
A system of sensors added to defibrillator implants might make it possible to predict heart failure events—sometimes more than a month before they happen.
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- Written by: Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich
Eating a very high-fat diet early in life may disrupt development of the prefrontal cortex in young brains, according to new research in mice.
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- Written by: Lawerence Synett, University of Pittsburgh
People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don’t, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Meg Blackburn Losey, Ph.D.
Healing has always been a great mystery, especially when a cure works for one person but perhaps not for another. Part of the success or failure of any healing modality is how the recipient perceives and accepts the healing. Let’s face it. Some of us...
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- Written by: Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University
Scientists have long puzzled over how breast cancer can suddenly reappear, often with a vengeance, months, or years after treatment is complete.
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- Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University
Concerns about weight gain may be driving contraception choices for women, a new study suggests. Women who are overweight or obese are less likely to use the birth control pill and other hormonal contraceptive methods.
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- Written by: Karen Black, University of Rochester
Electronic cigarettes are as equally damaging to gums and teeth as conventional cigarettes.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Among the many human, environmental, and economic impacts of global climate change, heat stress itself is perhaps underestimated as a major challenge to health and sustainability.
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- Written by: University of Melbourne
Rice is the staple food of billions of people throughout the developing world. But beyond easing hunger pains and providing carbohydrates for energy, it has little nutritional value.
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- Written by: Vanessa Wasta, Johns Hopkins University
An experimental drug appears to pack a one-two punch against some prostate cancers, significantly slowing the increase of cancer cells and making them more vulnerable to radiation.
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- Written by: Marla Paul, Northwestern University
Scientists looked at the brains of eight people older than 90 who had superior memories until their deaths. They were surprised to find widespread and dense Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles that...
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- Written by: Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona
Your birth year predicts—to a certain extent—how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Stanford University
Brain scans of children and teenagers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show structural differences between the sexes in one part of the insula
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- Written by: Jim Dryden, Washington University in St. Louis
Inflammation is one of the main reasons why people with diabetes experience heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems, and other, related complications. Now a surprise finding identifies a possible trigger of chronic inflammation.
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- Written by: Michelle Ma, University of Washington
Recent studies estimate up to 30 percent of seafood in restaurants and supermarkets is actually something other than what is listed on the menu or label.
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- Written by: Deborah Bach, University of Washington
A new study suggests that telephone-based intervention geared specifically to military members shows promise at helping those who are struggling with alcohol abuse.
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- Written by: Julia Short, Cardiff University
Children who use electronic devices at bedtime have more than double the risk of not getting enough sleep during the night compared to those who don’t use them.
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- Written by: Ron Roth, Ph.D.
Formulas are fine for solving math problems or for figuring out the stress factors in steel beams, but they don't help very much when it comes to healing and prayer. In most cases, you would do better to follow a creative amalgam of common sense, intuition, and balance.
