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Seventy-five adults with anxiety and depression tried 6 sessions of floating or chair-based rest and both water groups finished more sessions with no serious adverse events

Seventy-five treatment-seeking adults entered a careful test of deep rest and the simplest number from the trial was about showing up. People assigned to the two water-based groups completed 85% and 89% of their six planned sessions. People assigned to chair-based rest completed 74%. The PLOS ONE study, published in June 2024, tested whether repeated…

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Hidden Oropouche outbreak may have infected 9.4 million people

A study in Nature Medicine warns that Oropouche virus has likely spread far more widely than reported across Latin America and the Caribbean. By combining mathematical modeling, historical outbreak data and blood bank analysis, researchers estimated that major outbreaks from 1960 to 2025 caused about 9.4 million infections. The finding sharply raises the public health…