A new study suggests that children who spend time with dogs have lower stress. In the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers examined the levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in children before and after spending 20 minutes with a trained dog twice a week for four weeks. The researchers compared the results […]

How light or dark your bedroom is doesn’t just affect the quality of your sleep. It could influence several health problems, according to a new study published in the journal Sleep. Researchers at Northwestern’s Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine in Chicago studied over 550 participants between the ages of 63 and 84. The participants […]

If you can’t balance on one leg for 10 seconds, you might have a greater risk of dying in the next 10 years, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Brazilian researchers tested over 1,700 adults between the ages of 51 and 75. The participants were asked to stand […]

It appears that a particular vitamin might lower the risk of dementia later in life. In a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Australian researchers analyzed health data from almost 300,000 participants in the UK Biobank. They compared the participants’ vitamin D levels to brain imaging studies. The researchers observed that low […]

A new study suggests that a lack of sleep might make other people look less attractive to you. In the study, published in the journal Nature and Science of Sleep, Swedish researchers used eye-tracking technology to determine what 45 male and female participants were looking at in real time. Participants got no sleep at all […]

If you have too much self-confidence, it might hurt your health. Each person’s level of self-confidence is different, and it influences our behaviors, actions, and decisions. It also plays a role in risk-taking, drinking alcohol, and more. In this new study, researchers at the University of Vienna collected data from over 80,000 European adults aged […]

Stress appears to weaken and age your immune system. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed questionnaire responses from over 5,700 adults over the age of 50. Participants discussed their lifestyle and professional stresses, traumatic events and discrimination. The researchers […]

Walking might be good for your knees, even if you have arthritis. In a new study published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston surveyed over 1,000 people ages 50 or older with knee osteoarthritis and followed them for four years. Of the patients who did not walk […]

Drinking coffee might not pose an increased risk for pregnancy-related complications, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. Since they couldn’t ask pregnant women in the study to drink certain amounts of coffee, researchers at the University of Queensland used genetic analyses to mimic a randomized control trial analyzing the […]

Optimistic women live longer. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Harvard researchers collected data from almost 160,000 women from different racial and ethnic groups between the ages of 50 and 79 followed them for up to 26 years. They found that the 25 percent of […]