Health

It would be an understatement to say that working out isn’t everyone’s favorite activity, but in terms of health, there are few things that can best it — which makes the concept of “exercise snacking” all the more enticing.  Before you get as excited as we did upon first hearing the term, exercise snacking does not […]

It’s been six months since many of us passionately vowed to revamp our lives with positive new habits for 2024: eating more vegetables, saving more money, staying in better touch with loved ones.   We won’t pry as to whether you’re among the vast majority whose resolutions faltered and faded away or the impressive few who

Every year for the better part of the past two decades, polling organization Gallup has been taking the temperature of the room, so to speak, with its Global Emotions Report. The results are in from its latest survey, and the news is positive, if a bit surprising: The world is feeling better.  The findings were

Researchers have developed a fluorescent dye that sticks to prostate cancer cells, enabling surgeons to remove malignant tissue they otherwise would not be able to see.  In a preliminary study involving 23 men undergoing prostatectomies, the dye successfully attached to proteins on cancer cells, highlighting them for the surgical team with the help of a

It’s been estimated that the average person will spend 90,000 hours working — or a third of their life, to put it in other terms. Couple that with the fact that more than three out of four people feel that work stress negatively affects their physical health, per Headspace’s 2024 Workforce State of Mind Report,

Prostate cancer is exceedingly prevalent in men: It’s the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death among males worldwide. One of the standard steps to identify those at risk for the disease requires a trip to the doctor and a blood test, which looks for elevated prostate-specific antigens, or

A woman-led company called Work & Mother is bringing peaceful, private, and fully-equipped lactation suites to office buildings to help breastfeeding moms feel supported and secure.  Founder and CEO Abbey Donnell hadn’t yet become a mother herself when she first conceived of the business idea, but knew she wanted to have children relatively soon. She

With the rise in remote work and amid an ongoing loneliness epidemic, community feels more important and more elusive than ever. If we’re lucky, we feel a sense of belonging at home, among the people we love. And if we’re even luckier, we experience some degree of camaraderie at work as well. But these two places alone can’t always provide the level of nourishment our social selves need.