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With a glance Negative words in titles increase engagement, with each additional negative word increasing click-through rates by 2.3% Our attention is they are naturally attracted to potential threatsthat shape what we read and share online Awareness of this pattern can help us manage the way Consuming news affects our mental health Want to fund research like this? More like this If you feel like bad news is dominating your feed, you’re not imagining it. New research shows there’s a measurable reason why negative headlines are more likely to grab our attention. In a large study analyzing online news consumption,…

You have increased your fiber. Have you tried laxatives? You changed your diet.But you still struggle with constipation, bloating, or the feeling that you can never fully empty your bowels.If this sounds familiar, the problem may not be your digestive system at all. It could be yours pelvic floor.Pelvic floor dysfunction and anatomical abnormalities are often overlooked causes of chronic bowel symptoms. In many cases, patients spend years searching for answers before discovering that the issue is not what they eat, but how the muscles and structures involved in bowel movements work.What is the pelvic floor?The pelvic floor is a…

As a registered dietitian and mindfulness-based coach, I often talk about “mindful eating” and “mindless eating.” Although both concepts may seem similar, they actually have very different implications for our health and our relationship with food. In this article, we’ll explore the differences between mindful and mindless eating and why it’s important to pay attention to how we eat. Mindful Eating vs. Mindless Eating: Understanding the Difference and Its Effects on Your Health What is Mindful Eating? Mindful eating is the practice of paying attention to the present moment and being fully present while eating. This includes paying attention to…

NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, which provides domain-specific tools and skills for the life sciences agent era. Image credit: NVIDIA Including more than a decade of NVIDIA libraries, tools, and open models, the toolkit enables AI agents, scientists, and labs to collaborate by collecting data, reasoning about findings, running computational experiments, and suggesting next best steps to accelerate discovery. It provides any AI agent or platform – from general-purpose assistants to specialized scientific agents, software platforms, and biopharmaceutical internal systems – with the tools needed to synthesize and summarize scientific knowledge, call models, evaluate results, reason, and…

Here’s the honest truth that no one puts in an article about dandruff: dandruff cannot be permanently cured the way a bacterial infection can. The factors that cause it—the Malassezia fungus, your scalp’s oil production, and your scalp’s sensitivity—are always present.But here’s what IS possible: getting dandruff under such good long-term control that it virtually never comes back. The difference between “dandruff always comes back” and “I haven’t had dandruff in years” is almost entirely about building the right routine and sticking with it past the point where most people quit.This 90 day plan is built around this window. It…

“style=”;” /> TL;DR: In June 2026, we’re bringing zinc oxide back into deodorant stick formulas! Our deodorant pastes will be renewed in July 2026 to include zinc oxide in their formulations. 💪 When we reformulated our natural deodorants last year (in June 2025), we expected people to notice the creamier texture, smoother glide and great new scents. Although many people loved the new formulas, what we didn’t expect was the number of messages saying they missed the old formulas. The more we dug into the comments, the more we realized something important: We had to put the zinc oxide back…

Reproductive health the clinics were closed at alarming rates since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections in 2022. Facing mounting social and economic pressures, at least 100 clinics closed between its fall Roe v. Wade and June 2025, the latest data available. Every time a clinic closes, patients lose access to care, but it’s not just that: Entire communities lose comprehensive care providers for generations to come. As a nurse, doula and executive director of the Reproductive Health Clinical Education and Advocacy Group Repro TLCI’ve seen firsthand how abortion restrictions and clinic closings are shrinking the pipeline of trained…

What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial? In the United States, “junk food” is often used to describe less healthy foods such as candy, ice cream and chips, but there is no fixed definition, so nutrition researchers came up with the idea of over processed. The term “super-processed food”—if you want to call it that—describes industrial formulations that usually appear in this long list of ingredients, which, apart from salt, sugar and fat, are not usually found in any cookbook, such as various flavors, sweeteners, colors, emulsifiers…

David Engblom, Professor of Neurobiology at Linköping University, Sweden, is awarded the 2026 Onkel Adam Award for outstanding research at Linköping University School of Medicine. He investigates the brain’s role in making us feel sick in various medical conditions. Try to remember how you felt the last time you had a cold or flu. Have you been a bit depressed, avoiding the company of others and had a pervasive sense of illness? Probably. This type of depression is caused by the immune system being activated by inflammation in your body and also occurs in lifelong conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis…

If you have PMOS and are trying to get pregnant, it can be hard to know where to start.Maybe your periods are unpredictable.Maybe you’re using an app or ovulation test, but you still can’t tell when your fertile window is.Maybe you’ve been trying for months and keep hearing, “just give it more time,” even though something is wrong.PMOS, formerly known as PCOS, can make pregnancy more difficult when it affects ovulation. But it’s important to know that having PMOS doesn’t mean you can’t conceive.It also doesn’t mean that PMOS is automatically the only reason pregnancy hasn’t happened yet.The goal is…