Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Harold Koenig, M.D.
Healing can include dramatic, sudden physical cures, but is not confined to the 'miraculous' or the spectacular. Perhaps for most people, the healing power of faith involves a healing of the mind and emotions, the intangible spirit, and of relationships with others.
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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: Clare Collins, University of Newcastle
I was recently asked: If my eating habits are half good and half bad, does that make my overall diet balanced?
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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: Lindsey Konkel, Ensia
The rise in recent decades of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis suggests that factors in the environment are contributing.
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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: Dr. Rovenia Brock
More than a half-million people have lost over 5 million pounds by learning to conquer their food cravings. For many people, food choices have little to do with physical hunger. Instead, they are driven by an emotional hunger and they eat to satisfy some kind of longing.
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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: Todd Bates, Rutgers University
A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton—tiny animals at the base of the marine food chain—if land runoff increases by 15 to 30 percent, according to a new study.
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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: Helen Graham
Most living things appear to be vitalized by the bright reds, oranges, and yellows of daylight -- and calmed and rejuvenated by the blues, indigos, and violets of the night. The origins of healing with color can be traced back to the mythology of Ancient Egypt and Greece.
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- Written by: Ben Brumfield, Georgia Institute of Technology
An implanted device—a bit like a pacemaker—electrically stimulates the vagus nerve, while inhibiting unwanted nerve activity in a targeted way.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invasive insects called Asian shot hole borers are turning up in new areas of California where they threaten an important crop: avocados.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
That spicy tuna roll you order at your favorite sushi restaurant may not be tuna at all. Scientists say as much as half of nine types of fish sold in sushi restaurants they sampled may be mislabeled, despite tougher laws and increased media scrutiny in recent years.
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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: Barbara Berger
The reality for most of us is that sometimes the body does hurt. We can make it a lot easier for our bodies to do their wonderful job if we could just get ourselves out of the way.
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- Written by: Diana Cooper and Kathy Crosswell
Sound is third-dimensional. When the angels add their energy to sound it becomes a fast-frequency sonic emitted for specific high-vibrational purposes. We may not be able to hear it because it is beyond our auditory range and our understanding of it is limited but it has a powerful effect.
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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.
