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Homeless this Christmas: health on the street While warming your toes at home this evening, spare a thought for those settling down for a bleak night out on the streets. Medical News Today - Mon. Dec 21
Gulliber's Travails Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition . Adam Smith I have picked on, criticized, derided, or deonconstructed many a claim that, though popular, does not meet minimum standards of credible evidence or rationality. Many of these claims call for certain kinds of belief be it in the paranormal, the esoteric, the mystical, or simply the improbable or the impossible . It s been fun to do this work, but it has also been frustr ... Psychology Today - Mon. Dec 21
8 Research-Supported Ways to Bust the Winter Blues 16 of the U.S. population experiences the winter blues, which are often worst in northern climates from November to March when people have less access to sunlight, the outdoors, and their communities. Another 4 develops Seasonal Affective Disorder , which is a form of clinical depression that often requires formal treatment. If you have the winter blues, you may feel blah, sad, tired, anxious, or be in a worse mood than usual. You may struggle with overeat ... Psychology Today - Mon. Dec 21
Self Creation and Treatment An understanding of the kinds of creative thinking involved in art, literature, and science applies to the treatment of mental and emotional illness. Not just the performance of any specific therapy, but the medical management of such illness. To show how this is so takes me into the nature of mental illness impairments, the definition of creativity and creations in art and in life. I shall describe the independence, unearthing with self-knowledge, and par ... Psychology Today - Mon. Dec 21
More patients with lung cancer could benefit from immunotherapy, study shows SINGAPORE LUGANO - More patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer NSCLC could benefit from pembrolizumab, says Professor Roy Herbst, Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, presenting promising results from the pivotal phase 2 3 KEYNOTE-010 trial at the first ESMO Asia Congress in Singapore 1 , in conjunction with a publication in The Lancet 2 . The study shows that two doses of the anti-PD-1 anti ... EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21
Ending chronic pain with new drug therapy Chronic pain disables millions in the U.S. and costs 600 billion per year Treatments for chronic pain are largely ineffective A brain region controlling whether we are happy or sad is remodeled by chronic pain FDA-approved drugs can reverse these effects and lessen pain CHICAGO --- A brain region controlling whether we feel happy or sad, as well as addiction, is remodeled by chronic pain, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. And in a significant brea ... EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21
How graphic photos on cigarette packs help smokers consider quitting COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study is the first to provide real-world evidence of the effectiveness of smoking warning labels that include graphic photos of the damage caused by regular tobacco use. Researchers found that smokers who saw graphic warning labels on every pack of cigarettes they smoked for four weeks had more negative feelings about smoking compared to those who saw just text warnings, which led them to look more closely at the warnings and put mor ... EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21
Obesity more dangerous than lack of fitness, new study claims A new study, published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology [1], has dismissed the concept of fat but fit . In contrast, the results from the new study suggest that the protective effects of high fitness against early death are reduced in obese people. Although the detrimental effects of low aerobic fitness have been well documented, this research has largely been performed in older populations. Few studies have investigated the direct link b ... EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21
Battling obesity epidemic: New look at 'fat tax' Small price differences at the point of purchase can be highly effective in shifting consumer demand from high calorie to healthier low calorie alternatives, according to a study in the Articles in Advance section of Marketing Science , a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS . Low income consumers, who disproportionately suffer the consequences of obesity, are particularly responsive to such small price diffe ... EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21
Protecting a Few Students from Negative Stereotypes Benefits Entire Classroom Interventions targeted at individual students can improve the classroom environment and trigger a second wave of benefits for all classmates, new research shows. The findings, published in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science , indicate that sharing a classroom with greater numbers of students who participate in a brief intervention can boost all students grades over and above the initial benefits of the interventi ... Psychological Science - Mon. Dec 21
Review: PTSD resources lacking for nonveterans PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Post-traumatic stress disorder remains a difficult, urgent, and prevalent problem among combat veterans, but millions of nonveterans experience the condition too. A new study in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry finds that compared to what the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department make available, treatment resources for nonveterans are much less cohesive and helpful. For the other people affected by PTS ... EurekAlert - Sat. Dec 19
Handle with care: Car seats and newborns Cincinnati, OH, December 18, 2015 -- In 2013, car accidents resulted in approximately 8,500 infants requiring hospitalization or emergency department visits and 135 infant deaths. When used properly, car seats can reduce the risk of infant death and injury by 71 . However, in a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics , researchers found that most families with newborns made at least one serious error in the use and installation of ... EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 18

Homeless this Christmas: health on the street

While warming your toes at home this evening, spare a thought for those settling down for a bleak night out on the streets.

Medical News Today - Mon. Dec 21

Gulliber's Travails

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition . Adam Smith I have picked on, criticized, derided, or deonconstructed many a claim that, though popular, does not meet minimum standards of credible evidence or rationality. Many of these claims call for certain kinds of belief be it in the paranormal, the esoteric, the mystical, or simply the improbable or the impossible . It s been fun to do this work, but it has also been frustr ...

Psychology Today - Mon. Dec 21

8 Research-Supported Ways to Bust the Winter Blues

16 of the U.S. population experiences the winter blues, which are often worst in northern climates from November to March when people have less access to sunlight, the outdoors, and their communities. Another 4 develops Seasonal Affective Disorder , which is a form of clinical depression that often requires formal treatment. If you have the winter blues, you may feel blah, sad, tired, anxious, or be in a worse mood than usual. You may struggle with overeat ...

Psychology Today - Mon. Dec 21

Self Creation and Treatment

An understanding of the kinds of creative thinking involved in art, literature, and science applies to the treatment of mental and emotional illness. Not just the performance of any specific therapy, but the medical management of such illness. To show how this is so takes me into the nature of mental illness impairments, the definition of creativity and creations in art and in life. I shall describe the independence, unearthing with self-knowledge, and par ...

Psychology Today - Mon. Dec 21

More patients with lung cancer could benefit from immunotherapy, study shows

SINGAPORE LUGANO - More patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer NSCLC could benefit from pembrolizumab, says Professor Roy Herbst, Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, presenting promising results from the pivotal phase 2 3 KEYNOTE-010 trial at the first ESMO Asia Congress in Singapore 1 , in conjunction with a publication in The Lancet 2 . The study shows that two doses of the anti-PD-1 anti ...

EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21

Ending chronic pain with new drug therapy

Chronic pain disables millions in the U.S. and costs 600 billion per year Treatments for chronic pain are largely ineffective A brain region controlling whether we are happy or sad is remodeled by chronic pain FDA-approved drugs can reverse these effects and lessen pain CHICAGO --- A brain region controlling whether we feel happy or sad, as well as addiction, is remodeled by chronic pain, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. And in a significant brea ...

EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21

How graphic photos on cigarette packs help smokers consider quitting

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study is the first to provide real-world evidence of the effectiveness of smoking warning labels that include graphic photos of the damage caused by regular tobacco use. Researchers found that smokers who saw graphic warning labels on every pack of cigarettes they smoked for four weeks had more negative feelings about smoking compared to those who saw just text warnings, which led them to look more closely at the warnings and put mor ...

EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21

Obesity more dangerous than lack of fitness, new study claims

A new study, published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology [1], has dismissed the concept of fat but fit . In contrast, the results from the new study suggest that the protective effects of high fitness against early death are reduced in obese people. Although the detrimental effects of low aerobic fitness have been well documented, this research has largely been performed in older populations. Few studies have investigated the direct link b ...

EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21

Battling obesity epidemic: New look at 'fat tax'

Small price differences at the point of purchase can be highly effective in shifting consumer demand from high calorie to healthier low calorie alternatives, according to a study in the Articles in Advance section of Marketing Science , a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS . Low income consumers, who disproportionately suffer the consequences of obesity, are particularly responsive to such small price diffe ...

EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 21

Protecting a Few Students from Negative Stereotypes Benefits Entire Classroom

Interventions targeted at individual students can improve the classroom environment and trigger a second wave of benefits for all classmates, new research shows. The findings, published in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science , indicate that sharing a classroom with greater numbers of students who participate in a brief intervention can boost all students grades over and above the initial benefits of the interventi ...

Psychological Science - Mon. Dec 21

Review: PTSD resources lacking for nonveterans

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Post-traumatic stress disorder remains a difficult, urgent, and prevalent problem among combat veterans, but millions of nonveterans experience the condition too. A new study in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry finds that compared to what the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department make available, treatment resources for nonveterans are much less cohesive and helpful. For the other people affected by PTS ...

EurekAlert - Sat. Dec 19

Handle with care: Car seats and newborns

Cincinnati, OH, December 18, 2015 -- In 2013, car accidents resulted in approximately 8,500 infants requiring hospitalization or emergency department visits and 135 infant deaths. When used properly, car seats can reduce the risk of infant death and injury by 71 . However, in a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics , researchers found that most families with newborns made at least one serious error in the use and installation of ...

EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 18