It looks like that old column in Readers Digest was right. According to a study published in the journalHeart, laughter really is the best medicine! Researchers speculating that positive emotions may have a beneficial impact on a person’s health have shown experimentally that watching comedy films boosts blood flow to the heart. After an overnight […]
Scientists from Monash University in Australia have rejuvenated the immune systems of mice and humans using a common hormone. Their findings, published in the Journal of Immunology, could represent a breakthrough in the way patients with cancer, AIDS and other immunodeficiencies are treated. The work is also relevant for the ongoing treatment of transplant patients […]
Massive Siberian peat bogs, widely known as the permanently frozen home of untold kilometers of moss and uncountable hordes of mosquitoes, also are huge repositories for gases that are thought to play an important role in the Earth’s climate balance, according to newly published research by a team of U.S. and Russian scientists in the […]
