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Recess may look like downtime, but pediatricians say cutting it could cost kids far more than a few minutes on the playground.The American Academy of Pediatrics released updated guidance for the first time in more than a decade that urges schools to protect recess, highlighting that the unstructured break delivers major benefits for kids' health, learning and behavior."It has a very powerful benefit if it’s used to the fullest," said […]

Exercise is widely known to benefit the brain, and researchers at Penn State recently uncovered a surprisingly mechanical reason: Each time the body moves, the brain gets a kind of "rinse."According to a study published in Nature Neuroscience, the secret to this internal wash cycle may lie in the abdominal muscles.In mice models, the researchers found that the brain is mechanically linked to the abdomen through a network of blood […]

One of the American citizens evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship and flown back to the U.S. tested positive for hantavirus without symptoms, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and another person had mild symptoms.Those two Americans traveled "in the plane's biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution," HHS noted in a Sunday night post on X. Seventeen Americans and one dual U.S.-U.K citizen from […]