Contrary to the widespread conviction that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is good for the health of postmenopausal women, a new study suggests that HRT does nothing to protect against heart disease and may even increase their risk of stroke. HealthDay reports that the study, which analyzed data other studies involving more […]

Add an amendment to the “in sickness and in health” clause that seals many marriages. Researchers at Iowa State University are convinced that if a wife gets sick, a marriage is more likely to end in divorce than if a husband gets sick. The Iowa State study, published in the […]

We all know the joke about how a couple of drinks can make a potential suitor look more attractive; now comes research from the University of Bristol suggesting at a single glass of wine can make the drinker of that wine more attractive. A U of Bristol news release reports […]

It turns out exercise isn’t just good for you: it’s also good for your spouse, which is also probably good for you. Futurity reports that researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed health and exercise data from 3,261 couples on visits that were six years apart. The […]

OK,  maybe it’s not news, but it is a research finding: men are more narcissistic than women. How do we know? Because researchers at the University of Buffalo who reviewed three decades of studies involving 475,000 people found that men consistently scored higher in narcissism across multiple generations and regardless […]

Research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego claims that eating a Mediterranean diet can cut heart disease in half over a ten year period. OK, not exactly half, but 47 percent, which is close enough for a headline. Science Daily reports on […]

First, some numbers: one in four women in America takes a psychiatric medication. That compares to one in seven men. And women are nearly twice as likely to receive a diagnosis of depression or anxiety disorder than men are. Those stats come from a New York Times Op-Ed by psychiatrist and […]

Can’t sleep? Get mindful. Mindfulness, researchers at the University of Southern California are convinced, helps people get to sleep better than a sleep hygiene education program that teaches sleep improvement skills. How do they know? Futurity reports that a randomized study of 49 people, all over 55, compared the effectiveness of […]

Who know how long we will live? Apparently, the treadmill does, and running on it for a few minutes can give doctors the numbers they need to predict your future, such as it is. Science Daily reports that after analyzing data from 58,000 heart stress tests, cardiologists at Johns Hopkins have […]

Awesome news: Awe is a good thing, and awesome experiences can be good for your health. That’s the verdict of researchers at the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The Wall Street Journal reports on their research and other experiments suggesting that awesome experiences can improve […]