Researchers are using yeast to home in on the genes behind people’s adverse reactions to antibiotics. Some 5-10% of us develop symptoms ranging from harmless rashes to serious allergies or organ damage when we are treated with these.
Tests on mice and rats indicate that the potentially deadly gas carbon monoxide – inhaled at very low concentrations – may help arteries damaged in angioplasty and transplants.
Prolonged stress weakens the immune system, strains the heart, damages memory cells and deposit fats at the waist, says Dr. Bruce McEwen of the neuroendocrinology laboratory, Rockefeller University, and author of a new book, The End of Stress as We Know It.
Personnel Managers tend to employ women who stick to standardised feminine behaviour during interviews like smiling, nodding and looking away. This is the finding of a study by psychologists from London University’s Goldsmiths College.
On approaching menopause, many women do fear falling into profound moodiness. Even doctors believe this can happen. Until 1980, the American Psychiatric Association listed “involutional melancholia” – a mental disorder that supposedly occurred during menopause – in their official directory of psychiatric diagnoses. But the truth is not nearly so frightening, say psychologists from the University of Pittsburgh.