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Scientists Reveal the Best Exercises for Aging Joints
Aging changes the way joints function, but avoiding activity may not be the answer....
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Sophia Brennan
Health & Wellbeing Editor
Sophia writes about medical breakthroughs, mental health progress, and the science of human flourishing.
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A Nurse's Personal Story Changes How We Think About Dying
This article is part of a series in which we speak to individuals who – due to a unique job, location or experience – share an insight they wish others could know.What’s the one thing people should know? A peaceful, supported end-of-life experience – focused on family, closure and environment – can ...
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Intermittent Fasting: The Weight Loss Hack For People Who Hate Dieting
Intermittent fasting may help some people lose weight without relying as heavily on constant food restriction....
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How to walk 30 minutes a day - your tips
From walking the dog before breakfast to getting off the bus a stop early, readers share their tips for building a daily walking habit....
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A New Device Can Revive Dead Eyeballs. Yes, Really.
A device that keeps eyes alive: Researchers have built a device that pumps oxygen-rich fluid through a removed eyeball's artery, slowing the rapid degeneration that makes whole-eye transplants so difficult. Pig eyes kept inside it stayed viable for up to 10 hours.Dead eyes that can still "see": Untr...
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Tiny Microbes Just Gave Crops a Salty Superpower
Within the soil, a group of unique microbes are working overtime to shield wild plants from salt stress. Now researchers have shown that those naturally-occurring microbes can be successfully transferred to a range of crops and, crucially, can boost their growth. The obliging microbe, a type of bact...
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Federal Government Says 'Nah,' So Cities Are Saving the Climate
The United States federal government continues to backtrack on climate action at a time when it’s more urgent than ever. But urban centers are showing a different way forward, promoting human and environmental health. “I’m deeply worried,” Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Food Policy & Climate at the Joh...
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Turns Out Your Statin Worries Are Probably Overblown
Scientists at the University of Oxford have created a calculator that predicts a person's individual risk of serious muscle disorders from statin medications. Their analysis found that more than 98% of people who qualify for statins are at low risk for these rare complications, despite wide...
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An 80-Year-Old With Alzheimer's Showed Striking Improvement After Taking Psilocybin
A single observational case suggests psilocybin may ‘awaken’ cognitive reserve in dementia. But scientists caution controlled trials are needed to know if the drug was the cause. For five years, Alzheimer’s slowly stripped away a Japanese-American woman’s ability to speak more than one syllable at a...
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WHO declares Hantavirus outbreak linked to cruise ship is over
The World Health Organization's director general says no further cases have been reported since 25 May....
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Obesity's Heart Risks Are Shrinking Thanks to a Pharmacy Full of Heroes
Many adults living with obesity have “indistinguishable” cholesterol and blood pressure levels compared with those who are a healthy weight, largely because of the use of statins, according to a study.In some cases, people with obesity were “better off” than those of a healthy weight, researchers ad...
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New Jersey Just Made Interfering with Healthcare a Crime. For Everyone.
The law makes it a fourth-degree crime to harass or harm patients and healthcare providers, staff, or volunteers or block them from entering a facility that provides reproductive care, including services for trans people....
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A Simple Blood Test Reveals the True Age of Your Organs
Scientists have developed a blood test that estimates the biological age of individual organs, offering a new way to gauge future disease risk....
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Minister of State for Care officially opens PDSE’s Dental Education Practice
The Minister of State for Care, Stephen Kinnock MP, officially opened Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise’s (PDSE) Dental Education Practice in Plymouth city centre on Monday 29th June 2026, recognising an innovative partnership that is improving access to urgent NHS dental care while helping train t...
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Scientists Found a Protein That Stops Knees From Healing. Then They Blocked It.
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A Stanford Medicine study has identified a protein that roughly doubles in aging joints and blocks cartilage from repairing itself. Blocking that protein in older mice regenerated hyaline cartilage across the joint surface.
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Scientists Create Tiny “Mini Livers” That Could One Day Replace Liver Transplants
Engineered tissue grafts could help perform key liver functions and benefit thousands of people living with liver failure....
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New Nonsurgical Knee Treatment Delivers Lasting Pain Relief
A minimally invasive procedure that blocks abnormal blood vessels around the knee may offer lasting relief for people with osteoarthritis who have exhausted standard treatments....
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Side Effects From Chemo Left Me Virtually Unrecognizable — And I Never Expected My 3-Year-Old’s Reaction
It’s mid-October 2025, and I’m home with my boys, 8 and 5, and my 3-year-old daughter. It’s not yet Halloween, but I feel disguised as someone else. My face is tomato red, inflamed and covered in a severe rash — a side effect of my breast cancer treatment.My daughter looks up at me; her big blue eye...
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Science Says Your Midlife Crisis Is Probably Just a Glow-Up
When I turned 40, I kept waiting for the narrative around middle age to catch up with me—the whole “downhill from here” thing. It never did. As I moved from my early to late 40s, one feeling resonated: I felt great! My smartest, most confident, and healthiest version of myself. The disconnect betwee...
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Five ways to support a child’s anxiety
From avoiding confrontation to validating emotions, these five simple steps can help you respond more effectively to a child’s anxiety...
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