Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
Cervical cancer rates have fallen to record lows in the UK. Here's why
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common virus that infects humans. Some of the infection's types are linked to cervical cancer – the second most common type of cancer in women under 35 in the UK. But the good news is emerging on the horizon as researchers claim that routine vaccination of Read More...
How meditation can do wonders for your physical health
Meditation has become somewhat of a buzzword over the last few years, with everyone from scientists to celebrities advocating on behalf of the practice. So, is it just a bunch of hype? Or can meditation actually bring positive changes to one’s life? According to researchers, meditation can work Read More...
Suffering from migraines? Following this diet will help you keep the pain away
If you suffer from migraines frequently, you don’t need to rely on pain medicine to get the relief you desire. Instead, all you need to do to stave off migraines is make a few changes to your diet. After twenty-two years of clinical research on migraine management, Rodolfo Low discovered a Read More...
What’s the deal with anti-pollution skincare products?
As more and more people become concerned with the effects of air pollution on the body, a wave of new skincare products have emerged that promise to combat harmful particles associated with air pollution. These products work by cleansing the skin from nanoparticles that are absorbed from the air or Read More...
Study: Fish slime could be a potential source for new antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to global health nowadays. In order to find a solution to this growing problem, scientists are searching for new bacteria-killing drugs in all kinds of environments. Recently, researchers have started looking at the layer of mucus that coats Read More...
To get more people on the bus, we need to look towards Auckland, New Zealand
The city of Auckland in New Zealand has seen their population grow steadily since 2000—at around 2 percent per year. Despite this, transit ridership numbers were stagnating, something that many growing cities have struggled with. Eager to get citizens away from their cars and into public Read More...
Unmanned drones are now delivering blood to a hospital in North Carolina
The cargo for the first revenue-generating drone delivery in the United States wasn’t an Amazon package or 7-Eleven Slurpee — it was blood. On Tuesday, UPS launched a new service using drones to transport blood and other medical samples between the various buildings at Read More...
Fiber is the ultimate superfood. Here’s how to add more of it to your diet
This week we’re talking a lot about food, and for good reason: an overwhelming number of health conditions these days are linked to poor diets that lack diversity and good nutrition. One of the main things that people are missing in the fiber, which is the closest thing we have to a true Read More...
How diversifying the foods we will eat is a must if we want to spare the planet
Why would a wildlife conservation organization be involved in a campaign to push people to diversify their diets? As it turns out, the way we humans eat is very much linked to preserving wildlife — and many other issues. This was the topic at a recent conference in Paris where the World Wildlife Read More...
Could a high-tech toilet help save people from heart failure?
It may sound extremely odd, but in the future, your toilet could help save your life. At least, that could be the case if a team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology get their way. They have created a “toilet seat-based monitoring system” that could help hospitals monitor Read More...