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: Ashley Trentrock, ?University of Pittsburgh
Women who experience hot flashes and night sweats earlier in life are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than women with later-onset menopausal symptoms, a new study finds.
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- Written by: Cynthia Lee, McGill University
The brain’s biological clock likely explains why we want to down a glass of water before going to sleep.
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- Written by: Joan Borysenko
I wanted to know precisely why I felt like a zombie. Was I stressed out of my mind, overloaded with information that was jamming my gray matter and making myself so crazy-busy that I was running on empty? Had I become a poster child for Prozac, or was I...
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- Written by: Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University
Think back to the last time you came down with a cold and what it felt like to be sick. For most people, the feeling of sickness is a set of psychological and behavioral changes including fatigue, lethargy, changes in appetite, changes in sleep patterns and a desire to be away from others.
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- Written by: Joanna Poulton, University of Oxford
A baby boy, the first child to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people, is now five months old.
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- Written by: Oliver Sutcliffe and Robert Ralphs, Manchester Metropolitan University
Synthetic cannabis, of which Spice is an example, is linked to serious health issues ranging from difficulties breathing to psychotic episodes.
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- Written by: John Mathers, Newcastle University
It’s been one of the most astonishing changes in human anatomy. In just one generation, people all over the world have got a lot bigger.
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- Written by: Julaine Allan, Charles Sturt University
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a synthetic chemical made from a substance found in a fungus that grows on rye and other grains, called ergot.
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- Written by: Jim Erickson, University of Michigan
Mercury contamination is widespread across western North America in the air, soil, lake sediments, plants, fish, and wildlife, according to new research.
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- Written by: Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times
Researchers at George Washington University compiled data from household dust samples collected throughout the United States and found 45 potentially toxic chemicals used in many common products, such as vinyl flooring, personal care and cleaning products, building materials, and furniture.
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- Written by: Jason Yosar, The University of Queensland
Nearly one-third of Australians aged 55 or over (or around 1.5 million people) have an untreated cataract. In 2013-14, there were 229,693 hospital admissions for cataract surgeries, making cataracts one of the most prevalent conditions among Australians.
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- Written by: Clare Collins, University of Newcastle
A friend reckons he has it good. His partner cooks a bacon-hash-brown-fry-up for breakfast every day. “Are you sure?” I said. “Cause that’s exactly what I would feed my partner if I wanted to bump him off!”
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- Written by: Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Anyone who has stepped off an airplane in one of the major cities of the developing world has encountered profound and noxious air pollution. In New Delhi, Jakarta,
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- Written by: Irene Luo, Epoch Times
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” says the proverb—but maybe not in China. Due to a lack of regulation and enforcement, farmers in China regularly add dangerous amounts of fertilizers, preservatives, pesticides, and other chemicals
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- Written by: Simon Cotton, University of Birmingham
A hotel in Reykjavík has on display a McDonald’s burger and fries, seemingly undecomposed after 2,512 days – and counting. It was bought on October 30, 2009, the day that the last McDonald’s in Iceland closed.
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- Written by: David Orenstein, Brown University
A new study increases and strengthens the links that have led scientists to propose the “transposon theory of aging.”
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- Written by: Marla Paul, Northwestern University
Relying on clinical symptoms of memory loss to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease may miss other forms of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s that don’t initially affect memory, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Sarah Ades and Kenneth Keiler, Pennsylvania State University
An FDA ruling on Sept. 2 bans the use of triclosan, triclocarban and 17 other antiseptics from household soaps because they have not been shown to be safe or even have any benefit.
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- Written by: Irene Luo, Epoch Times
In a squalid fish farm in Yangjiang, Guangdong, farmers fed tilapia fish with the feces of pigs and geese to lower the cost of production.
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- Written by: Angie Hunt, Iowa State University
The key to sticking with an exercise program is actually enjoying it, new research shows.
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- Written by: Kathryn M. Flinn, Baldwin Wallace University
In one of television’s more bizarre recent offerings, the History Channel show “Appalachian Outlaws” follows a band of West Virginians as they hunt rugged forests for American ginseng, a medicinal root worth hundreds of dollars per pound.
