Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to report that in animal studies, a common diabetes drug prevents the memory and learning problems that cancer patients often experience after whole-brain radiation treatments.
More U.S. high-school students are taking physics than ever before, and the number of physics bachelor’s degree recipients in the nation has increased 31 percent since 2000, according to new data presented today by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). In addition, physics bachelor’s degree recipients are eight times more likely to go on to earn any kind of PhD than those with non-physics bachelor’s, the new data show.
In a new study on Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) — a distressing or impairing preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in one’s appearance — researchers from Bradley Hospital and Brown Medical School found that individuals who are concerned about their weight are more impaired than those whose appearance-concerns are not weight-related. This is particularly important, as weight-related preoccupations have at times not been considered diagnostic of BDD.
Walking a mile in another person’s shoes may be the best way to understand the emotions, perceptions, and motivations of an individual; however, in a recent study appearing in the December 2006 issue of Psychological Science, it is reported that those in power are often unable to take such a journey.
As Congress debates changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, a new study finds tremendous variation in what seniors in different states pay for the same medications, even if they choose the lowest-cost Part D plans in their areas. The highest costs often occur in the lowest-income, lowest cost-of-living areas.
A comprehensive meta-analysis of procrastination research, 10 years in the making, shows that: Most people’s New Year’s resolutions are doomed to failure; self-help books have it wrong when they say perfectionism is the root cause of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation.
Packed lunches taken to school by 7-year-olds are even less healthy than school meals used to be before Jamie Oliver set out to reform them.
Anthony Koleske, associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the $500,000 Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association (AHA).
Physical activity and sport sessions in schools have jumped by 53 per cent at primary level, and 17 per cent overall, in the last two years since Active Schools was launched with ?12 million per annum of backing from Ministers.
By all expectations, it shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. A combination of bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy greatly lengthened the lives of laboratory mice doomed by a rapidly progressing, fatal neurodegenerative disorder also found in people.