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5 Quick Metrics To Measure Your Heart Health

It is also necessary for patients to understand the underlying mechanisms in which a human heart works. Here we will discuss a few non-intrusive and corresponding metrics that if tracked regularly can give very early warning signs of potential cardiova…

Is Mindfulness A Promising Option For Treating Chronic Pain?

Based on a new study published in the journal, Evidence Based Mental Health, mindfulness meditation represents a promising option and a powerful tool for alleviating the grips of chronic pain.

Expanding 3-D-Printing Network Aims To Improve U.S. Veterans’ Healthcare

Expanding 3D printing network allows VA health care staff to share ideas, solve problems and pool resources on best practice uses for 3D printing to improve the health care of the nation’s over 20 million veterans.

Twelve Of The Best Books About Biology Of 2018

Whether you are giving gifts to others or to yourself, this list of the best popular science books of 2018 about evolution, genetics and natural history is a great place to start reading and gifting

In Later Years, Your House May Be Bad For Your Health

Better options than “home” may exist for older adults.

Your iPhone Can Now Store Your Health Records: Why Should You Care?

A recent study published in JAMA identified multiple reasons why Apple’s Health Records may accelerate adaptation of PHR. Results of this small survey found that the preliminary reaction of patients’ ability to utilize Health Records features was mostl…

Breakfast May Not Be So Important For Weight Loss, Another Study Hints

When it comes to weight loss, at least, it may not matter whether you have breakfast or skip it.

Hard Lessons For Would-Be Healthcare Innovators From UCSF Expert

Tech entrepreneurs should work closely with front-line innovators to ensure their company is focused on a relevant problem and developing an implementable solution; innovators must also recognize that robust evidence of impact (not just clicks) is esse…

Idling Sucks: Kids Protest $10-Billion-To-Get-Nowhere Habit That Poisons

Stop idling! Clean air poster competition gets kids to pester their parents to turn off their car ignitions when stationary.

Scientists Rethink Psychedelics As Attitudes Change Toward Formerly Illicit Drugs

The irony. The generation who brought psychedelic drugs to the attention of the world, may just be the ones who use them as medicine to treat anxiety and depression or simply to face death.