Medicine NewsChlorine is effective at killing pathogens in swimming pools, but it also irritates the skin, eyes and upper respiratory tract of swimmers. Recent research has found swimming in outdoor or indoor chlorinated pools can increase asthma risks. The study, “Impact of Chlorinated Swimming Pool Attendance on the Respiratory Health of Adolescents” found that children who [...]
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Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could be manufactured 10 times faster and also less expensively than is now possible. New technologies will be needed to meet the huge global market for artificial hips and knees, said Yung Shin, a professor of [...]
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“Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the legislation,” Politico reports. An aide to Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., for example, “worked as a highly paid public policy adviser for WellPoint Inc., the nation’s largest publicly [...]
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Individual survival in emergencies is not simply a matter of personal resilience, but is based on our connections with other survivors. That is the conclusion of Dr John Drury from Sussex University, who will present the findings of a study today, 16th September 2009, at the British Psychological Society’s Social Psychology Section annual [...]
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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness by Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., Douglas Turkington, M.D., David G. Kingdon, M.D., and Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D., won first prize in the Mental Health category of the 2009 British Medical Association book competition. The book is published by the American Psychiatric Publishing, [...]
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As children go back to school this fall, a new cross-cultural study finds that for both Chinese and American middle schoolers, students who feel supported by their teachers tend to have higher self-esteem, and those who don’t feel supported by fellow students are more likely to be depressed. The study, which explores [...]
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More than a third of American infants and toddlers live in homes where the television is on most or all the time, even if no one’s watching. A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children – and finds that the effect is [...]
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