SAN FRANCISCO – There's no doubt that laughter feels good, but is there real neurophysiology behind it and what can you do about it? In a paper being presented in an American Physiological Society ...

A new study looks at the effect that mirthful laughter and distress have on modulating the key hormones that control appetite. Laughter is a highly complex process. Joyous or mirthful laughter is ...

More on the mind-emotion-disease model: A new study finds that "mirthful laughter," coupled with standard diabetic treatment, raises good cholesterol and may lower heart attack risk. The connection ...

Cytokines have a primary role in mediating the underlying pathologic processes of inflammation and tissue destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and increasing evidence suggests that interaction ...