Happiness and optimism may play a role against breast cancer while adverse life events can increase the risk of developing the disease, according to a study by Professor Ronit Peled, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. An article on the study titled "Breast Cancer, Psychological Distress and Life Events among Young Women," Read the rest of this entry »
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Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet, according to results of a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study reported in the Journal of Child Neurology. The study appears online ahead of print here.
In the four-year study, the Hopkins Children’s team followed 121 epileptic children with intractable Read the rest of this entry »
US research reveals that teenagers who don’t sleep enough or have poor quality sleep may be at higher risk of elevated blood pressure that
could lead to cardiovascular disease in adulthood. The study is the first to examine links between high blood pressure and sleep quality in healthy
adolescents.
The research appears as Read the rest of this entry »
Most people would agree that stress increases your risk for illness and this is particularly true for severe long-term stresses, such as caring for a family member with a chronic medical illness. However, we still have a relatively limited understanding of exactly how stress contributes to the risk for illness. In the August 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, researchers shed new light Read the rest of this entry »