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Teaching Assistants feel they make a difference to vulnerable children

Date: Jan-09-2014
A study on the role of Teaching Assistants (TAs) in primary schools has suggested that TAs perceive themselves to have a positive effect on children displaying challenging behaviour and believe that without their support many of these children would be excluded from mainstream school.

Painkiller study helps tackle national headache of legal drugs addiction

Date: Jan-09-2014
With MPs now calling for health services to urgently tackle painkiller addiction, a University of Derby study has identified potential triggers which put users at risk of becoming dependent on legal drugs.More than a million people in the UK are believed to be addicted to over-the-counter or prescription painkillers and tranquilisers - substantially more than those addicted to illegal drugs - according to a Home Affairs Select Committee report published last month (December).

New research may boost drug efficacy in treating pulmonary arterial hypertension

Date: Jan-09-2014
Intravenous/Sublingual Tissue-Penetrating Homing Peptide Enhances Activity of Other Pulmonary Drugs, According to New Research Published in The American Journal of Pathology.The development of new, more effective vasodilators to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has been hampered because of their systemic toxicity and adverse side effects.

The importance of emotion at work

Date: Jan-09-2014
Workers do not leave their emotions at home, so employers who offer support that extends to their well-being outside the workplace may reap benefits during working hours.That is the conclusion of research being presented today, January 2014, to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology in Brighton.

Religion helps workers cope with stress

Date: Jan-09-2014
New psychological research suggests that employees with high levels of religiosity feel better and are more likely to report that their lives have meaning.These are the key findings of a study presented today, Thursday 9 January 2013, at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology's in Brighton.

Reducing obesity and type 2 diabetes in India through sugar-sweetened beverage tax

Date: Jan-09-2014
A sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax could help mitigate the rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes rates in India among both urban and rural populations, according to a study published this week in PLOS Medicine. Sanjay Basu and colleagues, from Stanford University, USA, estimated that a 20% SSB tax across India could avert 11.2 million cases of overweight/obesity and 400,000 cases of type 2 diabetes between 2014 and 2023, based on the current rate of increases in SSB sales.

Intimate partner violence and termination of pregnancy linked

Date: Jan-09-2014
Intimate partner violence in women (sometimes referred to as domestic violence) is linked to termination of pregnancy, according to a study by UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. The study, led by Susan Bewley from Kings College London, also found that intimate partner violence was linked to a women's partner not knowing about the termination of pregnancy.

Benefits of 'traffic light' food labels, positioning of healthy items

Date: Jan-09-2014
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) team reports in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that the previously reported changes in the proportions of more and less healthy foods purchased in the months after their program began have persisted up to two years after the labeling intervention was introduced.

Molecule behind the benefits of exercise discovered

Date: Jan-09-2014
While it's clear that exercise can improve health and longevity, the changes that occur in the body to facilitate these benefits are less clear. Now researchers publishing in the January issue of Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism have discovered a molecule that is produced during exercise and contributes to the beneficial effects of exercise on metabolism."Our finding bolsters the underlying notion that signals generated in one organ - such as exercising muscle - are released into the circulation and influence other tissues such as fat cells and liver," says senior author Dr.

Study links racism-related factors and cellular age

Date: Jan-09-2014
A new study reveals that racism may impact aging at the cellular level. Researchers found signs of accelerated aging in African American men, ages reporting high levels of racial discrimination and who had internalized anti-Black attitudes. Findings from the study, which is the first to link racism-related factors and biological aging, are published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.