Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Is acupuncture worth it for back pain? New study has answers

Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet most treatments offer limited relief. One of the most divisive is acupuncture—recommended in US guidelines for lower back pain but not in the UK. A new study ...

Health

Overweight but healthy—what the latest study reveals

Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults has found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three times more likely to die ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Listening to a story could help diagnose language disorders

A University of Houston researcher found that recording brain activity while a person listens to a story may help diagnose primary progressive aphasia, a rare neurodegenerative syndrome that impairs language skills.

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