Want to help your partner stress less? Listen from the heart

A couple talks in a hallway near a window. When we feel supported, we feel less stress. But sometimes we think we are being supportive of a romantic partner and we're not. Who hasn't experienced the self-satisfaction of feeling like we're 'helping' only to find we've only made the situation worse. Wake Forest University professor Jennifer Priem studies dating relationships and explores the connection between supportive conversations and physiological signs of stress reduction.

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Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan plan for health care consolidation

Christina Dalton Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan announced plans yesterday to combine forces to manage employees' health care, with a claim that they will develop technological solutions for simplified, high-quality healthcare. These companies represent over 1 million employees and huge potential resources, of both finances and experience, to make this happen.

Diabetes prevention goes digital

blood sugar test Wake Forest University has begun a digital diabetes prevention clinical trial that features a virtual interactive program that provides personalized guidance and weekly interactive lessons to encourage healthy habits. It is the largest-ever single-blind, randomized control trial of a digital diabetes prevention program (DDP).

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