All posts by : Felistas

If you’ve been on Instagram recently, you may have seen Insta stories of giddy teens dumping water—which doesn’t even contain ice—on their friends in the name of #SpeakYourMIND. Influencers give pretty speeches in which they claim “mental health is important!” and give a cheerful thumbs-up of support.

The neural circuit responsible for delaying the onset of puberty in underfed mice has been discovered in a study by neuroscientists at RIKEN. The same circuit is expected to play a similar role in humans too.

For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster heartbeats while men are more likely to develop irregular rhythms like atrial fibrillation (AFib)? Now a new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center provides some insight.

A person’s smartphone can show how well they’ll recover from a broken leg or hip, a new study says.

A University of Alberta-led study has put to rest a long-standing controversy about the best time of day to take blood pressure medications—and in the process has created a powerful research network of family doctors to answer important primary care questions.

Loneliness, feeling older than your age and a negative attitude to aging are all associated with early stages of frailty, even in people as young as 40, new research reveals. The research is published in the journal BMC Public Health.

Working with an incompletely staffed team is associated with greater odds of burnout for physicians, according to a research letter published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.

U.S. health care organizations are filing for bankruptcy at record rates as they increasingly rely on risky debt, leading to increases in staff turnover and harm to patients—particularly elderly ones living in nursing homes.

Hairdressers and barbers could be key players in spotting the early signs of skin cancer, according to a new University of Portsmouth study.

Researchers from McMaster University observed a modest increase in cannabis use frequency and a concurrent decrease in cannabis misuse among adults in Canada over five years of recreational cannabis legalization. Frequent users before legalization exhibited the largest reductions in misuse and frequency.