mind-body connections Fri Jul 16th @ 9:00am by Paul Ingraham

The broader your smile and the deeper the creases around your eyes when you grin, the longer you are likely to live

Makes sense to me.

Sep 8	links	Chiropractors shunned by huge insurer, Olympic injury rate, artificial turf safety, medical reporting quiz, Dilbert does placebo
Sep 3	Epsom	Confusing the benefits of salty and non-salty baths
Aug 28	links	Do-it-yourself clinical trials, homeopathic hijinks, a gorgeous e-textbook app for iPad, Lorimer Mosely on pain neurology, and a Chewbacca thing
Aug 26	exercise	Five stars! Micro book review of Body by Science
Aug 26	stretching	“I’ve tried to interpret the findings of the best physiologists and translate them into sound practices. That’s made me a radical.”
Aug 26	acupuncture	Backfirin’ placebos! How the placebo effect can actually make back pain worse
Aug 20	trigger points	A new chapter: medical factors that perpetuate pain
Aug 17	teaser	Kind of a big deal coming
Aug 10	humour	Sheldon Cooper on overconfidence
Aug 10	core strengthening	Two more mighty scientific blows to the credibility of “core strengthening” as a therapy for low back pain