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Older people who are happy have a 35% smaller chance of dying if they are content, excited or happy on a typical day, researchers from University College London wrote in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. The authors stressed that this greater likelihood of living longer held true even after taking into account such factors as the person’s financial situation, and their physical and mental health. Lead author, Andrew Steptoe, Ph.D…

It’s official and just as we always thought : Spending hours per day behind the wheel or crammed in a public train or bus, commuting to and from work proves to be bad for your health. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden gathered data from 21,000 workers of all age groups from 18 to 65, and found that those who commuted by car or public transit reported more everyday stress, exhaustion, missed work days and generally poorer health…

A new study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology on 30 October finds that introducing genetically sterile mosquitoes into the wild shows promise as a way to help fight the dengue-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti. The publication follows a presentation of the results at an annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Atlanta last November…