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.
‘Doctors shouldn't fear giving patients with long-term conditions hope’
Doctors have been urged to encourage patients with long-term medical conditions to be hopeful about their treatment, experts have recommended, with those who were more likely to manage their illness effectively. A study by researchers from London Read More...
Researchers have found a way to detect cancerous tumors before it’s too late
One of the major downsides of current cancer diagnosis technologies is that a tumor can often grow to a damaging size by the time imaging methods detect it. That’s why researchers have developed a new method for detecting tiny cancerous tumors that uses of light-emitting nanoparticles that are Read More...
Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, says report
“Sin taxes” on meat to reduce its huge impact on climate change and human health look inevitable, according to analysts for investors managing more than $4tn of assets. The global livestock industry causes 15% of all global greenhouse gas Read More...
Scientists have discovered a protein that helps direct our T-cells to fight tumors
One way scientists are manipulating the body's natural defenses is called adoptive cell transfer, which involves extracting a patient's own T-cells, genetically modifying them to target the specific proteins that mark cancer cells, and then injecting them back into the patient. While this kind of Read More...
The Keto diet can help the you beat diabetes
The drastic influx of carbohydrates and sugar in the American diet has created innumerable physical and mental diseases that are easily prevented when an addiction to certain foods is curbed. We know overcoming any addiction is challenging, but until the medical industry treats our obesity epidemic Read More...
Air pollution has a massive impact on early brain development
The effect that polluted air can have on the lungs is well-documented. Now, a new UNICEF report provides evidence that it can be similarly harmful to the developing Read More...
This portable laboratory will change how we combat disease outbreaks
When an outbreak of a disease such as Ebola occurs, mobile labs are set in place to help speed up diagnostic processes. Still, these mobile labs often come in the form of container-based or truck mounted labs, which are difficult to employ to areas where roads are poor. Now, through a combination Read More...
Canadian researchers say you can improve memory with this one weird trick
Here's a study tip just in time for exam season: if you want to remember something, read it out loud. It's called the "production effect" — a term coined by the Canadian researcher who discovered it, Colin Read More...
US health care is incredibly wasteful. To clean it up, we should look to India
We may not think about it much, but the medical industry produces plenty of waste from treatments, tossing disposable gowns, caps, booties, gloves and blankets, in addition to using loads of energy to drive machines needed in diagnosis and surgery. And that's not even talking anesthesia, which is a Read More...
The Economist’s food sustainability index ranked Ethiopia above the US
The Economist released its most recent assessment of food sustainability in 34 countries this week. The index ranks Ethiopia, the poorest country featured in the study, higher than the UK and the US. Glimpses into Ethiopia’s farming revolution could give other lower-income countries clues on how Read More...