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…5-minute meditation is enough,” says Michael Irwin, MD, a research psychiatrist and director of the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. Of course, more is…

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…a mental slide, says researcher Elizabeth Howard, a visiting scientist at the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston and associate professor at Northeastern University. The team asked…

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…research study of acupuncture’s effectiveness in treating knee osteoarthritis didn’t show significant benefit, but some researchers say it’s still worth a try, since many patients have found that it helps…

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