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.
Say good-bye to ADHD
Twelve-year-old Ruben is sitting on a podium in front of a room full of academics and journalists. He’s beaming, as is his mother beside him, and doesn’t seem the least intimidated by the learned audience. Ruben had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—past tense. Initially, there Read More...
Small message, big impact
Olivia Nalweyiso has three children—“and no more,” the 32-year-old Ugandan firmly declares. Nalweyiso lives in a fishing community on the banks of Lake Victoria. Large families are the rule here, but Nalweyiso has deliberately made herself an exception. Since 2009, she has been learning Read More...
Enviu launches the Open Health Community Challenge
We’ve all heard the saying “good health is priceless,” and most of us believe it. But a good healthcare system isn’t. Rising prices, accessibility and patient safety plague the industry. Enter the crowdsourcing organization Enviu, which is launching the Open Health Community Challenge to Read More...
Brief Encounter
Four years ago, in a restaurant in East Palo Alto, California, three people were eating soup. One of them was Karin Schlanger, who left Argentina in her 20s to come to the U.S. Another was Thomas Madson, principal of the East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, an inner-city high school he cofounded in a Read More...
Finding your voice
It’s early afternoon in Arkansas, and a high school gym full of kids in assembly listens raptly to a bespectacled man with a microphone. “We have two minds,” he tells them. “We have our logical, analytical mind, and we have this other part of us where our emotions and feelings live. And Read More...
Green is good
Every Sunday morning I go to the gym to do 30 minutes of strength training. I don’t really enjoy it but I see it as a kind of necessary physical therapy. After all, it slows muscle loss. And since I decided I don’t have to like it but that I do need to do it, I’ve managed to keep up with my Read More...
Ancient healing in the modern world
Brant Secunda beats on his drum and mumbles incomprehensibly. Now and then I catch the name Wali, which is the name of my son, who is sitting beside me. We both stare at the smoke rising from the little dish of glowing coals on the table before us. Secunda stands and brushes Wali’s body with a Read More...
The yogurt mamas
Every morning, 56-year-old Elizabeth Gabeal from Tanzania goes to work in a small community kitchen in her village in the Mwanza region. The kitchen is known as Jiko la Maziwa Imara, Swahili for “the kitchen for healthy milk.” Here, she makes yogurt that she sells to friends and family. In Read More...
Help for the heart
Having trouble walking up stairs and experiencing tightness in your chest? If the arteries around your heart are clogged, your doctor will try to remove the blockage by performing an angioplasty. If that doesn’t help, the only remaining option is open-heart surgery. But does open-heart Read More...
Ideal Medical Practices
A small but growing group of physicians is starting ‘’ideal medical practices” that put the individual patient at the heart of health care. John, a slight 60-year-old with severe arthritis and high blood pressure, sits in the hallway outside his doctor’s office in Eugene, Oregon, reading a Read More...