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This study tested whether playing recreational beach tennis twice a week for 12 weeks could help lower blood pressure in adults with hypertension. Researchers compared 42 participants who played beach tennis to a group that did not exercise, measuring their 24-hour blood pressure…

This study tested if giving the antibiotic clindamycin just once a day works as well as giving it three times a day for treating a serious uterine infection called septic abortion. Researchers enrolled 202 women with this infection and randomly assigned them to receive either the…

This study tested whether a home-based brain stimulation treatment could help reduce pain and improve daily life for women with fibromyalgia. Researchers wanted to see if people who typically respond well to placebo treatments would get more benefit from the real stimulation. Par…

This study tested whether a gentle, non-invasive brain stimulation technique could help reduce pain for people with fibromyalgia. Researchers compared a real stimulation treatment to a fake one in 100 women to see if it improved their pain, sleep, and mood. The goal was to see if…

This study tested whether teaching parents a simple program of gentle massage and passive exercises for their very premature babies could improve the children's thinking and movement skills. 138 preterm infants and their parents were involved. One group of parents learned the spe…

This study tested whether nutritional counseling focused on self-compassion works better than traditional diet advice for improving body image and eating behaviors. Researchers worked with 194 adult women who felt dissatisfied with their bodies, dividing them into two groups for …

This study tested whether a gentle, non-invasive brain stimulation technique called tDCS could help reduce chronic pelvic pain in women with endometriosis. Thirty women with confirmed endometriosis and significant daily pain received the stimulation treatment over several weeks. …

This study investigated whether giving students with ADHD extra time to complete standardized college entrance exams actually improves their test scores. Researchers compared the performance of 103 students with and without ADHD on mock exams taken with different time limits. The…