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Wonder why you feel better after a good laugh?
There’s reliable evidence that laughter improves various aspects of mental, emotional and physical health.
If you’re experiencing stress, pain or challenges to your immune system, finding ways to incorporate laughter into your daily life could be an effective remedy.
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Health experts say humor and giggles can be good medicine — and that’s no joke.
Simple and actionable steps to add more smiles to your life can make a difference.
«When considering lifestyle changes to improve health, people often overlook the benefits of laughter,» Michael Richardson, M.D., a family physician with Carbon Health in Boston, told Fox News Digital.
«Research shows that laughter can reduce stress, boost the immune system and even help alleviate pain.»
As a primary care doctor, Richardson encourages patients to prioritize joy in their lives; he said laughter is an excellent way to do so.
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Two paramedics tied the knot recently with an unusual backdrop for their marriage ceremony.
Wayne Marshall, 37, of Castle Douglas Station, and his new bride, Sarah Marshall, of Newton Stewart Station, wed at the Creebridge House Hotel with an ambulance behind them.
The couple both work for the Scottish Ambulance Service in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.
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Said Wayne Marshall of the couple's experience, «It was a fantastic day and great to spend it with friends, family, co-workers, both past and present,» as news outlet SWNS reported.
He said that «the whole day was amazing.»
For one thing, the couple «managed to trick our guests into thinking we had lost the rings, only for one of them to find them under her chair,» he said.
Wayne Marshall has been with the health care service for over eight years — five as a technician, three as a paramedic, the same source reported.
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Headaches are one of the most common medical conditions, with 96% of people having at least one in their lifetime, according to Cleveland Clinic.
About 40% of people globally experience what are known as «tension headaches» and about 10% suffer from migraines, the same source noted.
There are more than 150 different types of headaches, ranging from a mild annoyance to debilitating pain.
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For some, headaches can be wrongly diagnosed.
Actress Ashley Judd recently shared her story on Instagram how her «epic headaches» went misdiagnosed for eight years.
«For those eight miserable years I had been treated, at some of our finest medical institutions, with medication for a type of headache that I do not have,» she posted on Instagram in October.
Her doctors eventually diagnosed her headaches as status migrainosus, which is a migraine attack that lasts longer than 72 hours.
A headache is a pain in the head, neck o..

An outbreak of a mystery illness dubbed «Disease X» has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health officials say.
Up to 143 people have died from the infectious disease, the country’s deputy provincial governor, Rémy Saki, told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
The deaths occurred in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25, AP reported this week.
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Primary symptoms include fever, headache, cough and difficulty breathing.
Most of those affected are children younger than 5 years old.
«At the Emergency Operation Center for Public Health and at the INSP [National Institute of Public Health] — which is in maximum alert mode — we've already positioned central-level teams who will leave within 24 hours to join the [local] health zone,» said Dr. Dieudonné Mwamba, the director general of INSP, speaking in French at a press briefing on Thursday.
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Is chocolate the newest health food?
Well, not exactly — but in what may seem like a surprising result, a new study has found that eating dark chocolate every day could reduce the risk of developing diabetes.
The study, led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, looked at more than 111,000 participants from three large cohorts, none of whom had diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer.
The participants self-reported their dark chocolate consumption and diabetes status.
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Those who ate five or more weekly servings of any type of chocolate showed a 10% lower rate of type 2 diabetes compared to those who never or rarely consumed it, according to the study findings in The British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Among those who consumed five or more servings of dark chocolate, the diabetes risk was 21% lower.
For each weekly serving of dark chocolate, the risk was reduced by 3%.
Binkai Liu, a Har..

«I literally felt like I'd lost the air in my chest. I couldn't speak.»
That was the immediate reaction of a Florida dad and entrepreneur when he learned during an urgent phone call from his wife — who was pregnant with their fourth child and had just finished talking with a doctor — that their new baby might be born with Down syndrome.
«I was sad. I was angry. I was frustrated,» said Aric Berquist, who shared his thoughts in a video (see the video at the top of this article) and in an interview with Fox News Digital.
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Berquist said that on the phone call, he «wanted to stay calm» for the sake of his wife, Gretchen, «who was teary» as the couple talked over the news.
After they hung up, as he struggled with his emotions, he said, «I just felt this, heard this voice say, ‘Who are you to tell me what a blessing is?’»
The deeply faithful Christian parent said the voice «wasn't angry. It felt str..

«I literally felt like I'd lost the air in my chest. I couldn't speak.»
That was the immediate reaction of a Florida dad and entrepreneur when he learned during an urgent phone call from his wife — who was pregnant with their fourth child and had just finished talking with a doctor — that their new baby might be born with Down syndrome.
«I was sad. I was angry. I was frustrated,» said Aric Berquist, who shared his thoughts in a video (see the video at the top of this article) and in an interview with Fox News Digital.
RARE DISEASE DIAGNOSIS STRENGTHENS BOND BETWEEN TWIN SISTERS: ‘DOING OUR BEST’
Berquist said that on the phone call, he «wanted to stay calm» for the sake of his wife, Gretchen, «who was teary» as the couple talked over the news.
After they hung up, as he struggled with his emotions, he said, «I just felt this, heard this voice say, ‘Who are you to tell me what a blessing is?’»
The deeply faithful Christian parent said the voice «wasn't angry. It felt str..

Health officials continue to monitor an outbreak of Marburg virus — also known as «bleeding eye virus» — in Rwanda, which has sparked concerns about a potential spread outside the country.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory on Nov. 22, recommending that travelers exercise «increased caution» in Rwanda due to the outbreak.
«Travelers may be subject to additional health screenings [when] entering and exiting Rwanda,» the advisory stated.
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Similar to the Elbola virus, Marburg is a «rare but severe viral hemorrhagic fever» that is highly deadly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It has a 20% to 90% fatality rate.
The first case in Rwanda was confirmed in September. As of Nov. 29, the country had reported 66 cases of the virus and 15 deaths. Most of the infected people have been health care workers.
Approximately 75% of the patients with Marburg have ..

New research suggests that paralyzed patients could regain some degree of movement — perhaps even walk again.
In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, two people with spinal cord injuries received deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.
The therapy was applied to an «unexpected» part of the brain called the lateral hypothalamus, which has previously been associated with functions like eating and arousing from sleep.
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After the stimulation, the patients were able to walk without assistance and even climb stairs, according to a press release from Lausanne University Hospital.
The findings were published in the journal Nature Medicine.
One of the participants in the study was 54-year-old Wolfgang Jäger from Kappel, Austria, who experienced a spinal cord injury in 2006 that left him in a wheelchair.
After having electrodes im..

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