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Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly herculean genius of multilinguals, researchers say these results provide some of the first neuroscientific evidence that language skills are additive, a theory known as the cumulative‐enhancement

Judges don’t do court stenography. CEOs don’t take minutes at meetings. So why do we expect doctors and other health care providers to spend hours recording notes—something experts know contributes to burnout? “Having them do so much clerical work doesn’t make sense,” said Lisa Merlo, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and director of wellness

Guacamole is capable of starting fights. Not actual fights with guacamole (at least as far as we know), but about guacamole. Perhaps matched only by the “is a hot dog a sandwich?” debate and “do you like Hawaiian pizza?” eternal question—how to make the best guacamole is a contentious and often personal debate. To (attempt

Dr. Nesheiwat says America needs to continue social distancing with the approaching flu season 22 states report spikes in coronavirus cases; reaction from Fox News medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat. Fall is here, meaning the days of cooler weather, changing leaves, and pumpkin spice lattes are ahead. But with the new season also comes the seasonal

Of all the most hated kitchen tasks, squeezing a lemon ranks somewhere below mincing garlic and above chopping an onion. This is largely due to the fact that lemon seeds, tricky little buggers that they are, have a propensity to leap from the pulp of the fruit and into whatever vessel you’re using to collect

Most (93 percent) mobile apps for suicide prevention and depression management do not provide all the six suicide prevention strategies that are commonly recommended in international clinical guidelines, a study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found. International guidelines from the U.K., U.S. and the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend six evidence-based

Long gone are the days of TruSkin’s Vitamin C Serum reigning as Amazon’s best-selling face serum. While we didn’t think it was possible for any other serum to dethrone its number of perfect ratings, Cosmedica’s Hyaluronic Acid Serum has done it. The popular anti-aging serum has officially taken the number one spot as the best

In a paper published today in the Journal of Medical Screening, researchers from King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London have found that despite free cancer screening programmes, only 35% take part in all offered programmes. In England, women are invited for screening for three types of cancer concurrently in their sixties; for

Boy, five, who can’t walk, talk or sit is the ‘only person in the world’ to suffer from a crippling condition so rare it doesn’t have a name Ollie Lloyd has a chromosomal condition that means he cannot even lift his head He is blind, has significant hearing loss and can endure up to 100

(HealthDay)—There is a secular trend for earlier pubertal timing among Swedish boys, according to a study published online July 22 in JAMA Pediatrics. Claes Ohlsson, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and colleagues collected heights and weights from school health records for boys born consecutively starting in 1947 and every five years

You have to be careful about to whom you profess your love of summer squash. Tell the wrong person about the pleasurable tingling you receive when you think about patty pans, zucchini, and yellow squash coming into season and they might question how much time and effort they’re putting into a relationship with you. But

When most people think about New Year’s Eve, they think of late nights, loud parties and booze. Lots of booze. The holiday is basically synonymous with Champagne, right? And if you’re the parent of a young child, honestly, there’s no reason to skip the bubbly stuff. But what about if you’re parenting a young adult

An international clinical trial that studied wearable cardioverter defibrillators (WCDs) found that the devices did not significantly reduce sudden cardiac death—the primary goal of the device—among patients assigned to the device in the first 90 days after a heart attack, but did lower mortality among those who wore it as prescribed, according to a study

Rosé ice cream, rosé hard cider, rosé in a can: This summer has been all about the rosé. (Hell, even Olive Garden launched their own rosé this summer!) And while we may all have autumn on the brain already, Jose Cuervo isn’t about to let margarita season die off completely just yet. Jose Cuervo just

As we get older, physical exercise becomes more and more important. The internet abounds with the latest research extolling the multiple benefits of physical exercise for seniors. For instance, aerobic activity and muscle training have been shown to improve the psychological well-being of elderly people, and even a few minutes of light exercise can increase

Global panic was put to rest when Kim Kardashian West reassured fans that she only allows her daughter, North West, to straighten her naturally curly hair twice a year. But let’s back up a bit: Kardashian West unwittingly set an internet dumpster fire when she shared a sweet picture of her daughter, North, smooching her

Mother of four, Adrienne Osuna, showed off her 900g weight loss on Instagram 5 weeks ago but didn’t expect to get over 10,000 likes. Her side-by-side photos showed a loss of less than 1kg but she had completely transformed her body dropping 3 dress sizes. She captioned the post “I THANK GOD I didn’t let

People who are 30 pounds or more overweight may want to slim down a bit even if they don’t have high blood pressure or any other heart disease risk, according to scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. In a study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology,