Suspicion and mistrust of Western medicine led Muslim religious leaders in three northern states of Nigeria to call for the 2003 boycott of the national polio vaccine campaign, according to a historical analysis in PLoS Medicine. The boycott led to fresh outbreaks of polio in Nigeria.
The decade-long research that University of Nevada, Reno College of Science Chemistry Professor Thomas Bell has invested in the development of an extremely effective HIV/AIDS-fighting compound received an important boost recently when one of Bell’s articles made the list of the 100 most influential publications in the HIV/AIDS research field for 2006.
Rates of major depression are higher among whites, but the condition appears more likely to be severe, untreated and disabling among blacks, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Reading violent scriptures increases aggressive behavior, especially among believers, a new study finds. The study by University of Michigan social psychologist Brad Bushman and colleagues helps to illuminate one of the ways that violence and behavior are linked.
There is no proposal to recruit psychiatrists. There is sufficient number of psychiatrists in the Army. Army has already taken several steps to cope with stress within its ranks. Some of the measures are:-
A study published in the March 1 issue of the journal Sleep finds that sleep deprivation impairs the ability to integrate emotion and cognition to guide moral judgments.
People who continuously participate in community groups are often spared losses in psychological well-being after developing functional limitations, according to an article published in the latest issue of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.
New research sheds light on possible origins of violent religious fundamentalism.
Organized youth activities help teens develop independence without the conflict and distancing from their families that parents have come to anticipate during adolescence, says a new University of Illinois study.
The February 2007 issue of the American Sociological Review (ASR), the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA), features new research on adoptive and biological parents, comparing child-rearing factors between parents who adopt versus biological parents.