Health & Wellness
Charles Q. Choi
Live Science
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:44 EST
Your boss and other people in power often really have no idea what you and others feel and think, new experiments suggest.
Power is often defined as the capacity to get what you want or the ability to influence others.
"The powerful have a profound effect on others, and you would naturally hope they would be sensitive to other points of view," said Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist at Northwestern University.
Comment: What about "P" for psychopathy?
Reuters
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:41 EST
Washington - Chemicals known to change the sexual characteristics of fish and other animals have been found in West Virginia tributaries of the Potomac River, which runs through Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday.
An investigation into fish that had both male and female characteristics turned up a range of chemicals including pesticides, flame retardants, and personal-care products, the USGS said.
Comment: It's always interesting to read about the thousands of health destroying environmental pollutants being pumped into our bodies, but instead of addressing these issues with restrictions on the big corporations making billions and trillions off of our suffering, instead they go after tobacco - and blame everything on that! Because, of course, stopping smoking is laid on the consumer, while no stopping of anything is laid on the industries.
A bit unequal, don't you think?
Julia Stuart
UK Independent
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49 EST
Brain scans of women reaching orgasm have cast new light on how the mind and nervous system work.
Stephen Fox
Ottawa Indymedia
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:09 EST
Both Indonesia and South Africa are leading the world in firmly moving towards prohibiting this chemical for medical reasons: aspartame is an excitotoxin and causes brain damage. The sugar substitute breaks down in the body producing 3 toxic substances: methanol (wood alcohol which can cause blindness), formaldhehyde, and diketopiperazine, which causes brain tumors. Jakarta Indy repost.
Reuters
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:52 EST
Washington - New research showing a strong link between Parkinson's disease and low levels of "bad" cholesterol are so worrying that U.S. researchers are launching a study to look into it.
The team at the University of North Carolina is planning clinical trials involving thousands of people to see whether statin drugs, which lower low density lipoprotein, or LDL, might actually cause Parkinson's in some people.
BBC News online
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:40 EST
The Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, says it has produced five generations of birds that can produce useful levels of life-saving proteins in egg whites.
BBC News online
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:32 EST
A Californian woman who took part in a water-drinking contest to win a video game system has died of water intoxication, tests have shown.
The Observer
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:06 EST
When Ana Carolina Reston arrived for her first foreign fashion shoot, the 8st model was warned she was too fat. Two years later, and two stone lighter, she died from complications arising from anorexia. Tom Phillips reports from Sao Paulo on the tragic waste of a woman whose childhood dreams of being a cover girl came true - but for all the wrong reasons
Michael Bernstein
American Chemical Society/Medical News Today
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:04 EST
A new study suggests biochemical changes associated with schizophrenia aren't limited to the central nervous system and that the disease could have more encompassing effects throughout the body than previously thought. The findings, scheduled for publication in the January 2007 issue of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Proteome Research, could lead to better diagnostic testing for the disease and could help explain why those afflicted with it are more prone to type II diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and other chronic health problems.
Charnicia Huggins
Reuters Health
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:39 EST
New York - Sleep disturbances, especially nightmares, are common among people who have attempted suicide, new study findings show.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on an association between nightmares and suicidality in suicide attempters," co-author Nisse Sjstrm, RN of Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gteborg, Sweden, and colleagues write. However, they add that "our findings of an association between nightmares and suicidality does not imply causality."
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