Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...l, backs up earlier research about masculinity and perceptions of personality and gives further insight into what people see in others when choosing potential partners. It will also advance studies in areas like evolutionary biology, fertility and genetics and offer new insights for relationship counselling and...Sour taste make you pucker? It may be in your genes
... them less sensitive. Wise comments, These taste perceptions presumably evolved because they have a significant impact on food choice and therefore nutrition. If we can understand how and why people differ in their taste perception, we might eventually be able to manipulate the taste of individual diets to he...Risk-taking in infertility treatment correlates with women's negative moods
...t association between womens mood states and their perceptions of the likelihood of a multiple pregnancy. Women estimated their chance of having a multiple pregnancy as lower when they were experiencing more negative moods. When asked to choose between SET and 2ET, women with more negative moods also rated t...New amfAR research grants to optimize HIV treatment
...own University in Providence, RI, will compare the perceptions and success of current opt-in HIV testing procedures to the opt-out recommendations advanced by the CDC, in a study that will inform the implementation of the new recommendations around the United States. Despite the sophistication of health care i...2007 National Soybean Rust Symposium to be held in Louisville, KY
... year will be a session devoted to experiences and perceptions of producers and crop consultants," he said....Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...ing the history of disease in shaping our changing perceptions of, and our relationships to, the environment, as well as that impact of environmental change in transforming medical, scientific and popular understanding and experience of illness," he says. Mitman says that his own experience of illness has infl...How is the digitization of information impacting across the health service?
...e main body of research focused on experiences and perceptions of digital libraries (sources of non-personal health information). The second part of the research looked at the introduction of new technologies in particular healthcare contexts including patient information, patient booking and patient record syst...AAAS, National School Boards Asso. join in historic effort to improve science, math & tech education
Despite public perceptions that local school boards are battlegrounds over evolution and other science-related issues, board members in the Kansas City area are far more concerned with developing science, mathematics and technology studies that will ensure students future succ...Penn study finds ICD devices offer heart patients life-saving benefits
...isfaction with the device, offsetting longstanding perceptions that the technology extends but seriously impairs patients lives. Peter Groeneveld, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine and his co-authors report their findings in the April 2007 issue of the journal Pacing and Clinical Elect...Johns Hopkins researchers examine why people eat the foods they do
...nomic status, nutritional knowledge, attitudes and perceptions and dietary behavior and food choices....Is bigger better? Breast surgery linked to boost in self-esteem and sexuality
...women who were 21 to 57 years old, assessing their perceptions of self-esteem and sexuality before and after cosmetic breast augmentation. Study participants had been previously scheduled for breast augmentation and were undergoing the procedure solely for cosmetic purposes. Eligible candidates were mailed a con...Survey finds emotional reactions to nanotechnology
...new web-based public opinion survey of U.S. public perceptions of nanotechnology. "Essentially, when asked what t... and with what message, will be critical to public perceptions in the future." The results from this study of 1,800 persons who were recruited to participate in ...Highlights from the January 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ia, the frequency of family mealtimes and parents' perceptions of neighborhood safety for children's outdoor play." Impact of Under-Reporting Calorie Intake on Dietary Patterns and Weight Assessing and meeting people's nutrition and health needs is often made more difficult when they do not accurately repor...All itches not created equal -- Different parts of brain activated depending on cause
...ties between allergen- and histamine-induced itch, perceptions about the intensity and the parts of the brain that are activated by allergens differ when compared to histamine. As a result, mothers who admonish their children to stop itching may now be rightly told I cant. For mold and grass-related itches, it a...Dreaming of a nanotech Christmas: What persuades the public to embrace and buy nanotechnology?
... of new applications. They will discuss how public perceptions of nanotechnology are being shaped. They also will compare the experience of the emergence of nanotechnology to the experience of other "new" technologies, including nuclear power, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), embryonic stem cell research, ...Hair-pulling disorder caused by faulty gene in some families
...r Human Genetics. "Society still holds negative perceptions about psychiatric conditions such as trichotillomania. But, if we can show they have a genetic origin, we can improve diagnosis, develop new therapies and reduce the stereotypes associated with mental illness," Zchner said. Currently, there is no s...Define 'precautionary principle' to avoid clashes over biotechnology under World Trade rules
... Products rules on a dispute founded on differing perceptions about what constitutes legitimate precaution when ... even desirable in the United States." Differing perceptions about appropriate levels of precaution for biotechnology was the underlying cause of the WTO dispute...Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity
...be what gives the brain a way to connect low-level perceptions and actions to high-level goals and intentions." Brain waves - such as the slow alpha waves of the relaxed or idling brain or the fast, seemingly random pulses accompanying dream sleep - are generated by coordinated firing of neurons in the brain tr...Penn to host Herbal Medicine Symposium
...ible risks and benefits of using herbal medicines; perceptions health care providers and the lay public have of herbal medicine; and the role of botanical research in drug development. The use of herbal medicines in the United States is becoming increasingly popular. Yet, because most American health care provi...'Portion distortion' may contribute to expanding waistlines, study reports
...EW BRUNSWICK, NJ New research shows that people's perceptions of normal portion sizes have changed in the past 2...e portions began to grow. We also compared current perceptions of typical portions to reference portion sizes, defined in this study as the serving size on the Nut...