Medicine: a happy marriage makes happy wound healing

Blah blah blah stress blah blah blah glucocorticoids blah blah blah immunosuppression blah blah *yawn*.

But wait! Check out the methods to this study from those Illinois-beating sickos at Ohio State:

In the wound healing study, 42 couples agreed to let researchers use a suction device to create several minor blister wounds on their skin in two sessions about two months apart. The first time, couples were told to discuss a neutral topic; the next time they were given half an hour to resolve an issue or two on which they disagreed. Their discussions were monitored.

Researchers also checked participants' wounds over the next few weeks and their production of three proteins created in wound healing.

The outcome: "Even a simple discussion of a disagreement slows wound healing," says psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, who did the study with co-author Ronald Glaser of Ohio State University College of Medicine.

The moral of the story: be nice to your bleeding husband or wife. And Ohio State sucks.