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No joke, study shows laughter is best medicine

A hearty laugh may help avert heart disease.

Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine found that laughter helps relieve mental stress that can cause blood vessels to constrict. Constricted blood vessels increase the risk for heart attack and stroke by reducing blood flow to the heart and brain.

Michael Miller, the study's author and director of the university's center...

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