Flu (influenza) and pneumonia vaccinations are associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research. Three research studies reported at AAIC 2020 suggest: At least one flu vaccination was associated with a 17% reduction in Alzheimer’s incidence. More frequent flu vaccination was associated with another 13% reduction in Alzheimer’s incidence. Vaccination against pneumonia…

Working hours that deviate from an individual’s natural body clock are associated with greater cardiovascular risk, according to recent research. «Our study found that for each hour the work schedule was out of sync with an employee’s body clock, the risk of heart disease got worse,» said study author Dr. Sara Gamboa Madeira of the…

When new mothers complain that all those sleepless nights caring for their newborns are taking years off their life, they just might be right. A year after giving birth, the ‘biological age’ of mothers who slept less than seven hours a night at the six-month mark was three to seven years older than those who…

Psychologists have found a link between extraverts and their word choices. The finding highlights the need for stronger linguistic indicators to be developed for use in online personality prediction tools, which are being rapidly adopted by companies to improve digital marketing strategies. Today, marketing companies use predictive algorithms to help them forecast what consumers want…

New research supports the idea that music all around the globe shares important commonalities, despite many differences. The many musical styles of the world are so different, at least superficially, that music scholars are often sceptical that they have any important shared features. «Universality is a big word — and a dangerous one,» the great…

Researchers have developed a joint fault-based liability rule that can be used to regulate both self-driving car manufacturers and human drivers. They propose a game-theoretic model that describes the strategic interactions among the law maker, the self-driving car manufacturer, the self-driving car, and human drivers, and examine how, as the market penetration of AVs increases,…

Just when you thought you could head indoors to be safe from the air pollution that plagues the Salt Lake Valley, new research shows that elevated air pollution events, like horror movie villains, claw their way into indoor spaces. In a long-term study in a Salt Lake-area building, researchers found that the amount of air…

Almost half of all recreational runners incur injuries, mostly relating to knees, calves or Achilles tendons, and the level of risk is equally high whatever your age, gender or running experience. Doctoral student Jonatan Jungmalm recruited a little over 200 recreational runners from the list of entrants for the Goteborgsvarvet Half Marathon and monitored them…

New research shows there is more at play than just a sinking feeling when you stumble during movement or trip in a hole in the ground. Depending on the situation, a complex system of energy absorption is taking place in either the knee, hip or ankle joints to help humans recover from an unexpected change…

Social holidays improve holiday makers’ overall satisfaction with life, as well as satisfaction with the quantity and quality of their leisure time, and social life, according to a new study. The study analyzed the effect of social holidays on holiday makers’ subjective well-being and experience of inclusion. Social holidays refer to holidays that are granted…