Body & Mind
Is Microneedling an Effective Hair Loss Therapy
Some evidence supports the use of microneedling for hair growth therapy. One study found microneedling an effective treatment for promoting hair ...
A Couple of Minutes of Breath Control can Improve Your Physical and Emotional Health
A couple of minutes of breath control can improve your physical and emotional health. It can boost energy, calm anxiety when needed, and help you ...
In 2019 Tobacco Killed 7.7 Million People – Three New Studies
Researches found that globally in 2019, smoking tobacco use is the leading risk factor for death among males. In three studies published by ...
New Research Finds Coronavirus May Lead to Penile Tissue Damage and Erectile Dysfunction
The infection causes the cells lining the inside blood vessels to become incapable of carrying out their functions, consequently affecting the ...
Your Desire for Coffee Could Be a Warning About Your Cardio Health
"People subconsciously self-regulate safe levels of caffeine based on how high their blood pressure is, and this is likely a result of a protective ...
Are Two Cloth Masks More Beneficial Than One for Limiting The Spread of COVID-19?
Layering face masks has been suggested as a way to increase protection against COVID-19 variants that may be more transmissible Photo: Keira ...
We All Face Death – Will a Sense of Meaning Help to Ease Us?
Buddha, realised the importance of keeping the end in sight and not to get too attached to worldly pleasures but, rather, to focus on loving others, ...
How and When is The Vaccine for Coronavirus Likely to Become a Reality?
It is likely we’ll eventually have a coronavirus vaccine — but perhaps not as quickly as some expect. From development, to clinical trials and ...
When Laser Eye Surgery Fails, the Cightmare Can Be Enormous
Laser surgery is performed successfully in 95 per cent of cases but the operation can turn into a nightmare requiring complex treatments because it ...
Sniffing Your Partner’s Worn Clothing May Help Improve Your Health
Many study participants reported they had smelled an absent partner’s clothing because it made them feel relaxed or secure. Photo: Charisse ...
You Wake up With a New Year’s Anxiety Hangover – This Is What’s Happening in Your Brain
Alcohol interferes with the consolidation and retrieval of memories, leading to confusion and uncertainty the next day. Photo: Akshar Dave / ...
What Do We Find Attractive in Each Other, and Why?
Much of our sense of what is attractive comes into focus when viewed through the lens of successful reproduction. Photo: Dimitri Kuliuk / Pexels ...
This Ancient Memory Technique Is Older Than Our Western Civilisation, and Far More Effective
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective novel A Study in Scarlet (1887) we learn that Sherlock Holmes used the most effective memory system ...
These 5 Simple Habits Can Add Over a Decade to Your Lifespan
Photo: Victor Freitas / Pexels A new study in the cardiovascular health and disease journal Circulation found that ...
The Dirty Dozen Fruits and Vegetables With the Most Pesticides – And the 15 Cleanest
For the fourth straight year Strawberries top the list as the food with the most pesticides. Photo: Emmy Smith / Unsplash Since its inception in ...
Keeping Your Kids Healthy and Balanced in the Digital Era
By Bernard J. Wolfson Smartphones, tablets and video consoles can be addictive. They interfere with sleep. They draw kids into an alternate ...
For Some People Sleep Deprivation Is the Only Thing That Lifts Them out of Severe Depression
Photo: Nathan Cowley / Pexels Using sleep deprivation to lift people out of severe depression may seem counterintuitive, but for some people, ...
How to Wash Your Hair To Help The Environment and Save Money
For the cost of a ten-minute shower that uses an electric immersion heater, you could leave a typical television on for 20 hours. Photo: Olichel / ...
This New Egg Study Reveals the Flaws in Nutrition Science
Are eggs good or bad? That depends on what study you’re reading. At turns lauded and vilified, the humble egg is an example of everything ...
Poor Oral Hygiene Increases by 75% Your Risk of Having Liver Cancer
In the scientific journal United European Gastroenterology, researchers at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland published the ...