US hospitalizations for alcoholism have risen 3.5% since 1998 – but the death rate for patients who get treated has fallen by a THIRD Researchers looked at medical insurance claims for hospitalizations for alcohol use disorder between 1998 and 2016 Hospitalizations increased by 3.5% from more than 274,000 in 1998 to more than 284,000 in … Read more
Measuring a person’s heart rate can help spot depression as it beats faster and is less likely to drop at night, study finds Depressed people’s hearts beat an extra 10-15 times per minute on average during daytime, study at Goethe University found Their hearts may have to work harder because their chronic stress or anxiety means … Read more
Carrying out regular ‘pen-and-paper’ exercises can reduce nausea during travel by more than 50 per cent, UK scientists claim. Cognitive training tasks, including identifying how patterns would appear on transparent paper when folded, help ‘train the brain’ to reduce feelings of nausea in-transit, they say. Motion sickness, which creates a sensation of wooziness, can occur … Read more
Trump slips 10 points behind Biden among registered voters in new poll after reports claiming he disparaged troops as ‘suckers’ and downplayed COVID-19 threat New poll shows Biden leading Trump by 10 points among registered voters Poll was conducted from September 9 to 11, after reports critical of Trump It came after a report claiming … Read more
Trump slips 10 points behind Biden among registered voters in new poll after reports claiming he disparaged troops as ‘suckers’ and downplayed COVID-19 threat New poll shows Biden leading Trump by 10 points among registered voters Poll was conducted from September 9 to 11, after reports critical of Trump It came after a report claiming … Read more
Single people found it easier to cope during coronavirus lockdown than those in an unhappy relationship – but those in a happy relationship had it best, study finds. Experts from Danube University surveyed more than 1,000 Austrians a month into lockdown to get a picture of the link between relationship status and emotion state. People … Read more
Verifying reports of delusions and brain fogs, new research reveals just how coronavirus attacks and kills brain cells to churn out more copies of itself. Collaborating scientists around the globe have shown that the virus burglarizes brain cells, using their machinery to replicate, in a study posted online this week, which has not yet been … Read more
Verifying reports of delusions and brain fogs, new research reveals just how coronavirus attacks and kills brain cells to churn out more copies of itself. Collaborating scientists around the globe have shown that the virus burglarizes brain cells, using their machinery to replicate, in a study posted online this week, which has not yet been … Read more
A ring of coral islands described as ‘one of the world’s greatest surviving natural treasures’ by Sir David Attenborough, is being destroyed by plastic pollution. During a cleanup programme in 2019 more than 25 tonnes of plastic were removed from the remote atoll of Aldabra, Seychelles – just 5 per cent of the total. This … Read more
Red represents both love and anger throughout most of the world, according to a new study into how different cultures perceive the link between emotion and colour. Researchers from the Johannes Gutenberg University surveyed 4,598 people from 40 countries for their views on the link between different emotions and colours. They found some differences between … Read more