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Do adults who believe in periodic health examinations receive more clinical preventive services?

This 2007 Preventive Medicine study analyzed 4,879 adults in the rural U.S. Southeast to explore the link between beliefs in...

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Beyond Beauty: Neurocosmetics, the Skin-Brain Axis, and Emotionally Intelligent Skincare

This paper focuses on neurocosmetics, an emerging frontier at the intersection of dermatology and cosmetic science, elucidating the bidirectional regulatory...

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The Environmental Injustice of Beauty: Framing Chemical Exposures from Beauty Products as a Health Disparities Concern

This commentary uncovers the environmental injustice of toxic chemical exposures from beauty products, which disproportionately affect women of color (regardless...

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The Dark Side Of Beauty: Toxicological Impacts Of Synthetic Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

Driven by social media and unrealistic beauty standards, synthetic cosmetics and personal care products have become ubiquitous, yet they pose...

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Adjudicating Traditional Wellness In Worksite Health Promotion

Paul E. Terry’s 2020 American Journal of Health Promotion editorial analyzes the debate around traditional worksite wellness—a model of health...

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Antibodies against Endogenous Retroviruses Promote Lung Cancer Immunotherapy

Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) correlate with improved survival and immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) response in lung cancer, but the mechanisms...

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Neural Correlates of Integrated Aesthetics Between Facial and Moral Beauty

This fMRI study explored the neural basis of integrating facial and moral beauty. Twenty-one female participants evaluated paired stimuli (facial...

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Mental Health and General Wellness in the Aftermath of Hurricane Ike

This three-wave longitudinal study examined multidimensional resilience among 658 Hurricane Ike survivors (followed at 2–5, 5–9, 14–19 months post-disaster), filling...

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Beauty and Wellness in the Semantic Memory of the Beholder

Beauty and wellness are terms used often in common parlance, however their meaning and relation to each other is unclear....