A new position statement suggests resistance training should be considered vital to improving the health and longevity of senior citizens.

The statement makes recommendations for successful resistance training, or exercise focused on building muscle endurance, programs for older adults. 

When you poll people about living past 100 years old, few respond positively. It could be loss of friends and family, physical and cognitive decline, loss of independence and poor quality of life. If physical decline were mitigated, people may not be able to live longer, but they might live better.

Compensatory strategies for kids with autism spectrum disorders, an adaptive process whereby new behaviors are generated in order to avoid negative outcomes, do have positive outcomes, like increased social integration, but can result in a barrier to diagnosis.

In a warming climate change scenario, higher mean temperatures may have an impact on plants and animals by disrupting their mutually beneficial relationship: The pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), for example, is sensitive to rising temperatures and will flower earlier, whereas one of its major pollinators, a solitary bee species, hatches at the same time. 

Seed production will likely find a different route, this is two bee species out of about 25,000 after all, and the bee will switch to other plants to forage on.

None of that is devastating unless it doesn't happen the way evolution has happened so far.

Despite believing that self-care is a vitally important part of health and overall well-being, many physicians overlook their own self-care, according to a new survey released today, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Samueli Integrative Health Programs. Lack of time, job demands, family demands, being too tired and burnout are the most common reasons for not practicing their desired amount of self-care.

Aromatherapy, essential oils, and such, have no medical benefit in humans, but they do work against some pests, if you don't want to use something better.

The process is simple enough for simpler creatures; insects are attracted to some smells and repelled by others. So use the repellent on plants you want to keep. 

Like garlic on broccoli.

There is a belief that white police officers are trigger happy when it comes to minority crime suspects but analysis of shootings in the comprehensive database of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) shows that is not true.