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North America Lags in Health Care Comparison Study

Agent2014-06-17T22:33:56-04:00June 17th, 2014|Health and Canada|

North America needs to be looking to Europe and Australia for guidance on how to improve our health care. In a new study by the Commonwealth Fund entitled Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, based on stats from 2011-2013, Canada ranks second-last overall followed by [...]

MRI Study Explains Science of Laughter, Why we are Unable to Tickle Ourselves

Agent2013-05-27T21:04:28-04:00May 27th, 2013|MRI, MRI Research|

The science of MRI has officially confirmed what many people had already deduced for themselves--there is nothing funny about being tickled. Researchers at the University of Tuebingen in Germany used magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 18 subjects, recording neural responses of three types of laughter: humorous and joyful laughter, mean-spirited, mocking laughter [...]