Health Beat: Listening to music can 'significantly impair' creativity, study says
Do you listen to music while working? It could be affecting your creativity, according to a new report. (Ulysses Muñoz, Christina Tkacik / Baltimore Sun video)More
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Health Beat: Fast food delivers even more calories than decades ago
Portion sizes have risen dramatically over the past three decades at the most popular fast food restaurants in the United States, a recent study has found. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
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Health Beat: Weekend 'catch-up sleep' is a lie
The negative health effects of skimping on sleep during the week can't be reversed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to a sobering new study. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun Video)
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Health Beat: Beer before wine, always fine? Not according to hungover study participants.
In drinking lore, it’s said that having beer before wine, instead of the other way around, can help prevent a hangover. Well, it’s not true, a new study finds. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
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Health Beat: Childhood cancer survivor embraces a new quality of life
Kaitlyn Dorman talks about her cancer and the Johns Hopkins clinical trial that made it disappear. (Jerry Jackson, Ulysses Muñoz)
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Health Beat: When it comes to breathing during exercise, you're probably doing it wrong
If you are like most exercisers, you breathe through your mouth, especially as the intensity of the exercise mounts. But experts are learning that breathing through the mouth may not be as efficient or effective as breathing through the nose. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
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Health Beat: At Columbia's Journey Within Wellness Center, flotation tanks offer an alternative for pain relief
Floating is a relatively new form of sensory deprivation therapy, and the science remains out on it. The Journey Within therapy tanks include 11 inches of skin-temperature water with more than 2,000 pounds of Epsom salt. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
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Health Beat: More evidence that abuse of Xanax, Valium is on the rise
About one in every five people who take Valium, Xanax and other benzodiazepines are misusing the potentially addictive medication, U.S. survey data show. (Ulysses Muñoz, Hallie Miller / Baltimore Sun video)
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Health Beat: Experts see wearable technology, group fitness and HIIT leading 2019 fitness trends
Is the new year inspiring you to get back into shape? If so, you might want to try an exercise tracker, group fitness or high-intensity interval training (HIIT). These are the top three fitness trends for 2019, according to the American College of Sports Medicine, and each has been ranked highly...
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Health Beat: Don't think of it as a New Year's resolution. Think of it as a new skill.
People who make health-related New Year's resolutions often make one big mistake: they look at them as an issue of willpower rather than ability. (Ulysses Muñoz, Thalia Juarez / Baltimore Sun video)
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Health Beat: Young people can be desensitized to peanut allergy through controlled, escalating exposure
After a year of treatment with an experimental drug made by Aimmune Therapeutics, 67 percent of children and teenagers with peanut allergies were able to safely ingest the equivalent of at least two peanuts, compared with just 4 percent of those on placebo, according to the study published in the...
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Health Beat: The CDC keeps warning people not to eat raw cookie dough — even though it's delicious
With holiday baking season underway, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again urging people not to eat unbaked cookie dough - not even a tiny taste - because "unbaked products that are intended to be cooked, such as dough or batter, can make you sick." (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore...
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Health Beat: New vaccine for celiac disease could bring hope to many to live normally
People with celiac disease must follow a very restrictive diet, but an experimental vaccine may offer many of them the freedom to eat more normally.