This study doesn't prove that optimism actually causes better health or postpones death. But it joins a growing body of evidence suggesting that they're fellow travelers.
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Folge vom 07.12.2016A Brighter Outlook Could Translate To A Longer Life
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Folge vom 06.12.2016Drivers Beware: Crash Rate Spikes With Every Hour Of Lost SleepAn analysis of car accidents found that drivers who slept only five or six hours in the previous 24 had nearly twice the accident rate of drivers who slept a full seven hours or more.
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Folge vom 06.12.2016A Stabbing, A Possible Ebola Outbreak, And A 'Time Bomb'In Liberia, a team of epidemiologists have to delay a criminal investigation, look the other way on illegal drug use and build trust to stop an outbreak of Ebola.
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Folge vom 05.12.2016Advice For Doctors Talking To Parents About HPV Vaccine: Make It BriefA decade after HPV vaccine was introduced in the U.S., many doctors still hesitate to routinely recommend that children get vaccinated against the cancer-causing virus.