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Sad Music Might Help You Cope With Relationship Troubles
Date: May-16-2013Consumers experiencing relationship problems are more likely to prefer aesthetic experiences that reflect their negative mood, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "Emotional experiences of aesthetic products are important to our happiness and well-being. Music, movies, paintings, or novels that are compatible with our current mood and feelings, akin to an empathic friend, are more appreciated when we experience broken or failing relationships," write authors Chan Jean Lee (KAIST Business School), Eduardo B. Andrade (FGV School of Administration), and Stephen E...
Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Can Cause Osteoporosis
Date: May-16-2013Androgen deprivation therapy is a common and effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer. However, among other side-effects, it can cause significant bone thinning in men on long-term treatment. A new study¹ by Vahakn Shahinian and Yong-Fang Kuo from the Universities of Michigan and Texas respectively, finds that although bone mineral density testing is carried out on some men receiving this therapy, it is not routine. They did note, however, that men were significantly more likely to be tested when they were being cared for by both a urologist and a primary care physician...
More Effective Treatment Of Complex Infections Likely With Cutting-Edge Bacteria Research
Date: May-16-2013Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves. Therefore they will try to avoid getting attacked by the human immune system, and therefore they have developed various ways to protect themselves from the human immune system. When safe from the immune system, they can focus on breeding and multiplying, and if they become numerous enough, the human body will experience their presence as an infection. Some bacteria are relatively harmless, while others are fatal...
Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes More Strongly Attracted To Smell Of Humans
Date: May-16-2013A new study shows for the first time that infection with the malaria parasite causes mosquitoes to change smell-stimulated behavior so they are more strongly attracted to the smell of humans than uninfected mosquitoes. The burden of malaria around the world is huge: the parasite infects over 200 million people a year and kills an estimated 770,000, note the researchers...
Survey Of Nurses Regarding End-Of-Life Preferences
Date: May-16-2013Nurses will use extreme measures to save patients and their parents. But they'd prefer less aggressive life-preserving methods for themselves, according to an international survey on nurses' end-of-life preferences. Findings from a cross-cultural survey of 1,089 nurses from five countries about their end-of-life (EOL) preferences were reported a recent issue of in the International Nursing Review...
Emphasis On X-Ray Quality Spurs Adoption Of Computed And Digital Radiography In Europe, Finds Frost & Sullivan
Date: May-16-2013The increasing popularity of retrofit systems fuels market growth The need to improve the efficiency and quality of X-ray examinations will drive healthcare facilities across Europe to install computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems. The emergence of retrofit systems based on flat panel technology has popularised DR systems, and will sustain investments in the European computed and digital radiography market...
Benefit Of Cycle Helmet Laws To Reduce Head Injuries Still Uncertain
Date: May-16-2013Contribution of helmet legislation "minimal" in context of existing safety campaigns, say researchers The benefit of helmet legislation to reduce admissions to hospital for head injuries is "substantially uncertain," concludes a study published on bmj.com this week. The authors say that, while helmets reduce head injuries and their use should be encouraged, in the context of existing safety campaigns, the impact of legislation seems to be minimal. Cyclists are vulnerable road users and head injuries among cyclists account for 75% of cycling related deaths...
BMJ Calls For New And Stronger Partnerships To Improve Healthcare
Date: May-16-2013Patients can improve healthcare: it's time to take partnership seriously The BMJ has called for doctors and patients to join together as partners to improve healthcare. The journal says it is committed to "stepping up its commitment to patient partnership" and wants to "develop a strategy for patient partnership that will be reflected across the entire journal...
Human Cloning Produces Embryonic Stem Cells
Date: May-16-2013A major breakthrough has just been achieved in stem cell research. Through human cloning, American scientists have effectively produced early embryos and used them as a source of stem cells with a procedure similar to the one that produced "Dolly the sheep", the first mammal ever to be cloned. The finding was published in the journal Cell. Stem cells derived by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) have the potential to transform into any cell type, such as bone or brain tissue cells. They can be used to treat and help understand a wide range of conditions and health problems...
MRI Autopsies Offer A New Option To Traditional Methods
Date: May-16-2013Autopsies that are minimally invasive by method of MRI scans and other techniques like blood tests can determine the cause of death in babies and fetuses just as accurately as conventional autopsies. The finding, published today in the British medical journal The Lancet, came from a research team led by Dr Sudhin Thayyil and Professor Andrew Taylor of University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London, UK. The study was the first of its kind to examine the accuracy of minimally invasive autopsy methods compared with traditional methods on a large-scale...
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