Medicine NewsAccording to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have had many unintended negative effects on the suspect’s memory and brain functions.
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The American Psychological Association (APA) recently elected Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH, a chronic disease epidemiologist and senior investigator for the Geisinger Center for Health Research, to “APA Fellow” status. This prestigious designation recognizes Dr.
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By 2010, 35.6 million people are expected to be living with Alzheimer’s disease globally, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International. The total will probably double every couple of decades and reach approximately 65.7 million by 2030, and 115.4 million twenty years after that, the organization estimates.
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The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously to support H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, as the basis for health reform. “In doing so, the APA is pleased to stand with the American Medical Association,” said a letter presenting the board’s decision [...]
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Diabetes UK is calling on people to help bring diabetes to light on World Diabetes Day (Saturday 14 November). Diabetes UK, along with six other diabetes charities in the UK, is taking part in the World Diabetes Day Monument Challenge and we are asking people to join in by lighting local landmarks and [...]
Diabetes UK warns that almost a quarter of people with diabetes in England are at increased risk of losing their sight because they have not been screened using a digital camera to spot signs of retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in the UK’s working-age population. The latest Department of Health figures show [...]
AP – Heart patients who catch the flu may have more to worry about than just a fever or the sniffles: the virus could also spark a heart attack, new research shows.
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AP – Coughed on by somebody with the flu? Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine with a mere drop of blood who will get sick before the sniffling and fever set in. And they’re turning to hundreds of dorm-dwelling freshmen this fall to see if it works.
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AP – Studies of the new swine flu vaccine show children 10 and older will need just one shot for protection but younger kids almost certainly will need two.
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