Health

How Horses Can Help When Traditional Therapy Falls Short

Dogs and horses both show up in therapy, but they do very different jobs. “Dogs comfort. Horses reflect emotions,” said Kelly Canzone, a clinical social worker and founder of Equine...

What Is Interoception? How the Human Sixth Sense Shapes Mental Health

There is the famous five, then there is the sense most people rarely think about at all. Researchers are...

Mobile Summer Meals Program Helps 20% of US Kids Access Free Food When School Is Out

A line of cars started forming early at Tecumseh High School in New Carlisle on Wednesday, with families...

Self-Healing Contact Lenses Repair Scratches in 1 Hour Under UV Light

A scratched contact lens usually means one thing, throw it out. Researchers in South Korea say that may...

Good News This Week: Snails, Poems, and Leopards Inspire Hope Around the World

Some of the week’s brightest stories came from public safety, health, conservation and clean energy, with new figures...

Scientists Decode Bacterial Enzyme System to Create More Targeted Cancer Drugs

Bacteria have been quietly making several versions of powerful cancer drugs for decades. Now scientists say they know how. Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified how bacterial enzymes work together to build a...

Surgeons Return to Rural Vietnam for 34 Summers to Give Children Free Life-Changing Surgeries

For 34 years, volunteer medical teams from Japan have kept returning to rural Vietnam for the same reason, to provide free cleft lip and palate surgery to children and adults who could not otherwise...

Faster Walking in Older Adults Linked to 50% Lower Risk of Cognitive Impairment, Study Finds

Some older adults are moving fast, and their brains may be keeping pace. A recent study led by Stony Brook Medicine in New York found that older adults identified as "super movers" were about half...

Oral Cancer Swab Test Delivers Over 95% Accuracy in Just One Hour

A quick brush of the mouth could soon help spot oral cancer in under an hour. Scientists from the UK and India have tested a non-invasive oral cancer test called the quantitative Malignancy Index Diagnostic...

This Mom Says Beach Wheelchairs Are Life-Changing for Accessible Seaside Visits

For many families, a trip to the beach is simple. For Catriona and her nine-year-old daughter Leila in Felixstowe, it has often been anything but. Catriona, who lives a short walk from the beach in...

Experimental Vaccine Targets Dangerous Intestinal Illness and Shows Early Promise

After decades of stalled progress, researchers say a long-running effort to build a vaccine against a major cause of severe diarrheal illness has hit a new milestone. Scientists developed a technology targeting enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli,...