Wellness Travel
Does forest bathing actually do anything?
Shinrin-yoku has real, repeatedly measured effects on stress and mood, but most of the studies behind it are small, short and heavily skewed toward East Asia.
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Is jet lag worse flying east or west? Here's what the science says
Flying east scrambles your body clock in a way flying west does not, and a 2016 physics model now puts real numbers on exactly how much worse it gets per time zone.
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How fast can an air ambulance take off? Why that is the wrong question
When someone needs to get home from a hospital abroad, the instinct is to get a plane up now. In medical aviation, speed is really about how fast the whole transport chain can be assembled safely. Medical Air Service's own data and the industry's independent standards show why wheels-up is the wrong number to chase.
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Do compression socks actually prevent blood clots on long flights?
A Cochrane review of almost 3,000 airline passengers found a large drop in silent blood clots, but the clots that actually cause harm were too rare in the trials to measure.