Author: Tom Patriot

Simple stickers may save lives of patients, athletes and lower medical costs

Tom Patriot

Heart surgery can be traumatic for patients. Having to continuously monitor your status without a doctor when you are back home can be even scarier. Imagine being able to do that with a simple sticker applied to your body. Purdue University researchers have advanced a sticker solution moving it several steps closer to reality. The research was recently published in ACS Advanced Materials and Interfaces. “For the first time, we have created wearable electronic devices that someone can easily attach to their skin and are made out of paper to lower the…

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Learning new vocabulary during deep sleep

Tom Patriot

Sleeping time is sometimes considered unproductive time. This raises the question whether the time spent asleep could be used more productively — e.g. for learning a new language? To date sleep research focused on the stabilization and strengthening (consolidation) of memories that had been formed during preceding wakefulness. However, learning during sleep has rarely been examined. There is considerable evidence for wake-learned information undergoing a recapitulation by replay in the sleeping brain. The replay during sleep strengthens the still fragile memory traces und embeds the newly acquired information in the…

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Jennifer Aniston’s Best Health and Fitness Tips Through the Years

Tom Patriot

Aniston started focusing on her diet early in her career after an agent told her she didn’t get a part because she was “too chubby.” “I was like, ‘What?!’ ” she told PEOPLE in 2016. Though she didn’t take the comment too seriously at first, Aniston soon realized that her “diet was terrible.” “Milk shakes and French fries with gravy [laughs]. It was a good thing to start paying attention.” These days, Aniston urges body acceptance. “It’s time to just stop thinking beauty is in the shape of a size 4 and…

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What’s age got to do with it?

Tom Patriot

It’s often said: It’s not how old you are, it’s how old you feel. New research shows that physiological age is a better predictor of survival than chronological age. The study is published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “Age is one of the most reliable risk factors for death: the older you are, the greater your risk of dying,” said study author Dr Serge Harb, cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. “But we found that physiological…

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