Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...le in groups of people and in social activities. I sort of tend to want to be a hermit. However, I find it relaxing to go window-shopping in a mall. A crowd of a hundred strangers is more relaxing than a dozen neighbors whom I know,'" Behrmann said. Behrmann and Galia said that much remains to be learned ...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...iety of diseases, particularly in women. So, it's sort of dangerous, in my opinion, to tell people that a drink or two per day is safe without also teaching them what we mean by the term 'drink.' My guess is that lots of people think they only have one or two drinks per day, when in fact they have much ...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...hese compounds to cancer, learn how they work, and sort out any issues of toxicity." Chocolate, like many other foods, is the source of many possible anti-cancer compounds, but Dickson stresses that this research, which is part of a series of studies conducted at Georgetown on the chocolate-cancer connect...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...sis. "I've settled into it completely nowit's a sort of everyday thingI wasn't first of all. I was terrified of it, but not any more." - Mother of a 12-year-old boy, four months after diagnosis....The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...portant studies has still not been published. This sort of delay usually means that the results were not so good, and if that study found a very different result from the others it could change our conclusions." "Whether the drug is good enough for health services to buy is a moot point. The National Inst...OHSU study finds ginkgo beneficial for MS symptoms
...easures a person's ability to pay attention and to sort conflicting information." Of 39 patients completing the study, 20 received ginkgo biloba and 19 received placebo. Researchers found there were no differences in results between the two groups in the areas of gender, education, type of MS, years since...More effort needed to prevent pattern of child abuse developing in families
...illan points out, most fall seriously short of the sort of service evaluated in their study. Whilst these findings might highlight the importance of the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect, primary prevention will not be effective in all cases, and there is an urgent need to identify an effectiv...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
...ma Bogot, M.D., who read all the scans, found some sort of non-heart abnormality in 61 percent of the patients. Many of these were judged insignificant. But in the 43 patients who had significant or potentially significant findings, the range of severity was wide. In 16 patients, lung nodules larger than...Clinical trial proves link between chiropractic and migraines
...ad migraines was 18 years. To get a change of that sort of magnitude in a really chronic group was quite amazing. "Another 50 per cent had quite noticeable improvement. They either found that the frequency of the migraines was less, the length of time they had them was less or that they didn't need to us...Researchers largely at fault for health risk studies that influence and confuse the public
...at a loss to understand their meaning." "How do we sort out these contradictions?" questioned Dr. Kupfer. "We have a responsibility to the general public, who on a daily basis hear about new findings or ways to reduce risks of disease that are extrapolated from a study and then reported by the media. But ...NIEHS press conference for the environmental solutions to obesity in America's youth conference
...nal and community leaders will join researchers to sort out how a child's environment increases the risk for obesity and to identify ways the environment can be changed to address this health epidemic. More than 700 people will gather for a two-day conference, "Environmental Solutions to Obesity in Americ...New information on reproductive health in St Petersburg
... at all. A majority of women have experienced some sort of health problems and one in ten are very dissatisfied with their health. One in five women have experienced unintended infertility, but very few had decided to undergo tests or expensive treatment. Abortion Still Used As a Means to Contraception ...NIEHS brings researchers and leaders together to find environmental solutions to childhood obesity
...al and community leaders join researchers today to sort out how a child's environment increases the risk for obesity and to identify ways the environment can be changed to address this health epidemic. More than 700 people will gather for a 2-day conference, "Environmental Solutions to Obesity in America'...Breast cancer uses growth factors to lure stem cells
...sponse kicks in and accepts the metastasis as some sort of useful tissue, it really gets dangerous." The MCG researchers hypothesized that growth factors secreted by tumors cells might play a role in this acceptance. Dr. Bao-Ling Adam, a cancer researcher and proteomics expert, helped measure levels of FG...Resettling the 'Lost Boys of Sudan' in the United States
... resettlement, however, has not been without a new sort of trauma. According to a recent study by Paul L. Geltman, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues, many of these young men have exhibited the behavioral and emotional distress associated with pos...Arm swelling common among young breast cancer patients
...uction or a wreck, all of the cars back up. That's sort of what happens with lymphedema there is a traffic jam, and the fluid gathers in the arm, hand and fingers." She presented the findings on June 11 in Philadelphia at the U.S. Department of Defense's Breast Cancer Research Program 2005 'Era of Hope' ...UK College of Public Health earns national accreditation
...g the public health issues facing our state. This sort of statewide effort is relatively unique and UK's commitment to reaching this goal only made it that much easier." This decision comes after intensive planning and development. CEPH's accreditation procedures required that the UK College of Public ...Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
...tors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the University of Chicago and published in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that 90 percent of doctors in the United States attend religious services at leas...Mental processing is continuous, not like a computer
...tion; the curve shows continuous competition. They sort of partially heard the word both ways, and their resolution of the ambiguity was gradual rather than discrete; it's a dynamical system." The computer metaphor describes cognition as being in a particular discrete state, for example, "on or off" or i......any fields, our existing tools -- our chisels of a sort -- can't control the shapes and spacing of these small structures," said Chad A. Mirkin, director of Northwestern's Institute for Nanotechnology, who led the research team. "Our method allows us to selectively introduce gaps into the wires. These gap...