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Climate change and local stressors are causing unprecedented damage to coral reefs globally, and the need is there to explore novel techniques to counteract die-offs and proactively manage these rapidly changing ecosystems.

Can Integrative Health and Medicine make people healthier and prevent costly, big-ticket chronic diseases? The Integrative Health Policy Consortium explores the cost-effectiveness of integrated health practices with impressive results.

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, born from the Darwinian theory of natural selection. Keltner adds nuance to this concept by delving deeper into Darwin’s idea that sympathy is one of the strongest human instincts — sometimes stronger than self-interest.

Mind-body therapies (MBTs) are emerging as potential tools for addressing the opioid crisis. Knowing whether mind-body therapies may benefit patients treated with opioids for acute, procedural, and chronic pain conditions may be useful for prescribers, payers, policymakers, and patients.

Contemporary happiness: A life characterized by the pursuit of frequent transitory states of well-feeling, wealth, pleasure, power, and fame and defines well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance. While classical happiness or the eudaimonic approach is a different way of thinking about happiness …

Empathy plays a critical interpersonal and societal role, enabling sharing of experiences, needs, and desires between individuals and providing an emotional bridge that promotes pro-social behavior.