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: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University
Effective breast cancer treatment options are predictable based on the way certain genes act or express themselves, new research shows.
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- Written by: Kristina Sauerwein, Washington University in St. Louis
People taking heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors—Prevacid, Prilosec, Nexium, and Protonix—may not be aware of kidney damage linked to the medications, research suggests.
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- Written by: Nathan Collins, Stanford University
There’s no easy way to predict which teenager will become a problem drug user. While certain personality traits—impulsiveness for example—may signal danger, not every adolescent fits the description.
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- Written by: Stanford University
A brain-to-computer hookup recently allowed people with severe limb weakness to type via direct brain control at the highest speeds and accuracy levels reported to date.
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- Written by: Caroline Curran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A protein that appears to play a vital role in airway function is virtually missing in people who have asthma. The discovery points to a potential new treatment.
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- Written by: Lisa Chedekel, Boston University
The proportion of deaths attributable to diabetes in the US is as high as 12 percent—three times higher than estimates based on death certificates suggest—a new analysis shows.
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- Written by: Robin Lally, Rutgers University
A new study with worms may help explain how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spread in the brain. Sometimes when neurons dispose of toxic waste, neighboring cells get sick.
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- Written by: Stephanie Brown, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
We all know and hear a lot about postnatal depression, but what about depression and anxiety during pregnancy?
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- Written by: W. John Diamond, M.D. and W. Lee Cowden, M.D.
Under emotional distress, the brain may signal the adrenal glands to produce chemicals called corticosteroids. Cancer-related processes are accelerated in the presence of these chemicals. Certain cancers have also been associated with distressing life events.
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- Written by: Sarah Allinson, Lancaster University
Recent reports that cancer rates in UK women are set to rise six times faster than in men over the next two decades will have alarmed many.
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- Written by: Gustavo Machado, and Manuela L Ferreira, George Institute for Global Health
How’s your back? About a quarter of Australia’s population experience a back pain episode at any point in time, and nearly all of us (around 85%) will have at least one lifetime experience with back pain.
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- Written by: Chyrisse Heine, La Trobe University
As the baby boomer generation begins to age, the prevalence of both eye and ear disease will rise exponentially, as there is a strong correlation between vision loss, hearing loss and ageing.
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- Written by: William Fergus Martin
Many of us do things we wish we would not do. We may compulsively eat sugary or fatty things, drink too much alcohol, become a zombie in front of the TV, or whatever. We may judge ourselves as “weak” or “lacking in willpower”, because of this. Maybe we...
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- Written by: Robert Kopecky
Pleasure and pain are always coming and going, fluctuating to and fro, sometimes only five minutes apart, doing “their thing” to this flesh-and-bone vehicle, inspiring all kinds of crazy thoughts in our thinking organ—the brain.
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- Written by: Allison Hydzi, University of Pittsburgh
New research reveals a new, menopause-specific indicator of heart disease risk—and suggests possible ways to reduce it.
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- Written by: Tamara Bhandari, Washington University in St. Louis
Many infectious diseases are one and done—people get sick once and then they are protected from another bout of the same illness.
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- Written by: Jesslyn Chew, University of Missouri
It is common for individuals with autism to have a more intense reaction to stress, and some of these patients seem to experience frequent constipation, abdominal pain, or other gastrointestinal issues...
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- Written by: David Hill, University at Buffalo
The anxiety many men experience after being diagnosed with prostate cancer may lead them to choose potentially unnecessary treatment options, researchers report.
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- Written by: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University
Scientists have discovered that a chemical compound—and potential new drug—reduces the spread of melanoma cells by up to 90 percent.
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- Written by: Conan Milner, Epoch Times
To make the most of your energy, look to nature as your guide. For example, for a plant to survive long term, it requires strong roots–ones that pull in nutrients and water from its environment and give it the strength to carry on.
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- Written by: Erin Karter, Northwestern University
Currently there is not a single test that can reliably and objectively diagnose concussions, but new research suggests measuring the brain’s response to sound could take the guesswork out of the diagnosis.
