Not sure which herbal supplement to buy – or whether to buy at all? There’s a free app for that. To help consumers navigate information about popular herbs and herbal supplements, the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health has developed HerbList™ – an app for research-based information about the safety… Continue reading A Smartphone Guide to Herbal Supplements
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A Better Sleep App?
Researchers have come up with an app that goes one step beyond the sleep-monitoring apps already on the market. The old-style apps help people monitor their sleep patterns by monitoring time of going to bed, time of waking up and any tossing and turning. Now, a group of Brown University computer scientists and clinical psychologists… Continue reading A Better Sleep App?
Death and A Belief in The Afterlife
A belief in the afterlife often influences how people feel about the prospect of death, according to new research. Dr. Arnaud Wisman and Dr. Nathan Heflick, of the School of Psychology at the University of Kent, in the UK, set out to establish in four separate studies whether people lose hope when thinking about death… Continue reading Death and A Belief in The Afterlife