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Extreme meditation retreat, where participants practice for 10 hours daily, leads to significant changes to 220 genes linked to immune system.Meditating for a few minutes each day may be the first step in helping the body fight off cancer and viruses like COVID-19, a new study reveals. A team from the University of Florida found that meditation and yoga programs, or Inner Engineering practices, dramatically boost the body’s immune system. Their worked focused on patients practicing these techniques intensely — meditating for over 10 hours a day — for over a week. Meditation retreats have become increasingly popular over the...

As we reported earlier this month only nine states in America that are not under stay-at-home orders by their governors. Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas,, and South Carolina are now the only states where residents are not under orders to only leave their homes for “essential” purposes. “The contrast is the starkest in five states — Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota,, and South Dakota — where there are no such orders in place, either in major cities or statewide. Another four had partial restrictions issued locally in certain cities or counties,” the New York Times...

The stress of being a young doctor takes its toll, with many suffering mental problems  Two-thirds of Australian medical graduates show obsessive-compulsive behaviour, a fifth are likely to have mental health problems and some face drug issues, according to a new study. The research looked at 117 students who were the first to complete a new graduate medical program run by the University of Sydney. Many became emotionally exhausted, and suffered burn-out in their first year of work. Some experienced a high level of distress. "It's a stressful environment - you can't work in acute end of health care,...