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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the flurry of activity before the holidays, some well-meaning family members consider buying lottery tickets and scratch cards as affordable, colourful, and potentially promising gift options for the children and teens on their list. http://www.physorg.com/news180112098.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:11:37 EST news180112098 Involving family members of pediatric cancer and hematology patients in medical rounds benefits both the family and the medical team, according to a new Indiana University School of Medicine study. http://www.physorg.com/news178285564.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:43 EST news178285564 (AP) -- A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation. http://www.physorg.com/news176566373.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:40:01 EST news176566373 While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with industrial entities, the prevalence of such relationships - particularly direct funding for research studies - appears to be dropping. Results of the survey, appearing in the November/December 2009 issue of Health Affairs, also suggest that interest in commercial applications of research appears to be growing, even among investigators without industry funding. The new study is a follow-up to 1985 and 1995 surveys by members of the same team. http://www.physorg.com/news176464659.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:10:01 EST news176464659 (PhysOrg.com) -- Kimberly Eddleston wants to know how the `family` in family-run businesses either serves to constrict or promote a firm`s success. http://www.physorg.com/news174842320.html Other Sciences Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:30:01 EST news174842320 (AP) -- Dell Inc. says it will beef up accounting and corporate governance rules as part of a settlement tied to an investigation into past financial practices. http://www.physorg.com/news173383893.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:30:02 EST news173383893 What happens to a person`s identity when a stroke or a disease profoundly impairs the ability to communicate? In Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Life Stories and the Narrative Self, University of Arkansas researchers challenge readers to explore "the messy but powerful relationships between communication impairment and maintenance of a viable sense of self." http://www.physorg.com/news171612084.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:20:01 EST news171612084 It is widely understood that, ideally, schools and parents should work together to ensure that children can succeed as students and citizens. But what is the right balance? And how much do teachers want parents involved in the classroom? A new study from North Carolina State University identifies ways that schools and communities can work with parents to give children the greatest chance of success. http://www.physorg.com/news169796752.html Other Sciences Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:09:42 EST news169796752 (PhysOrg.com) -- Companies with female board members fare worse on the stock market, despite performing as well on all other measures as those with all-male boards. This is the finding of a new study by the University of Exeter, published today (13 August 2009) in the British Journal of Management. http://www.physorg.com/news169378923.html Other Sciences Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:44:07 EST news169378923 (AP) -- Whether it's around the dinner table or just in front of the TV, U.S. families say they are spending less time together. http://www.physorg.com/news164300420.html Technology Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:35 EST news164300420 Viewing a video showing a patient with advanced dementia interacting with family and caregivers may help elderly patients plan for end-of-life care, according to a study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. In their report in the journal BMJ, being released online today, the investigators find that participants who watched such a video in addition to listening to a verbal description of the condition were more likely to indicate they would choose only comfort care if they developed advanced dementia and also said they felt the video was helpful to their decision-making process. http://www.physorg.com/news162797459.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 May 2009 06:31:34 EST news162797459 (PhysOrg.com) -- More people live behind bars in the United States than in any other country, but the American prison system punishes more than just its inmates--it also takes a toll on the health of friends and loved ones left behind. http://www.physorg.com/news159553964.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:33:37 EST news159553964 This is what you get when politicians keep their comments to 140 characters or less: "We need to cut spending! Holy Cow! A novel idea in Washington." http://www.physorg.com/news158838934.html Technology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:56:15 EST news158838934 When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Kathleen H. Corriveau, Maria Fusaro, and Paul L. Harris of Harvard University describe experiments suggesting that this tendency starts very early on, around preschool age. http://www.physorg.com/news156169768.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:30:43 EST news156169768 Comments on the Web are often immature or wildly misinformed. It was a pleasant surprise, then, to see Facebook members providing reasonable and articulate feedback in the social-networking's site new civic experiment. http://www.physorg.com/news156066477.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:48:53 EST news156066477 A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King`s College London (KCL) has identified a novel gene for inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig`s disease). This is the fourth gene associated with familial forms of the devastating neurological disorder. Two papers, published in the February 27 edition of Science, report mutations in FUS/TLS, a gene known to play a role in DNA repair and the regulation of gene expression. The mutations affect the behavior of the FUS/TLS protein within cells and lead to deposits of abnormal protein within motor neurons. http://www.physorg.com/news154880974.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:30:17 EST news154880974 Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Brandeis University have completed a qualitative study on the cultural environment in medical schools and how this may affect medical faculty vitality, professionalism and general productivity ultimately influencing the delivery of health care. This study appeared in the January issue of Academic Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news152884158.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:50:02 EST news152884158 Many college campuses are striving to become more diverse in their faculty and student populations, but creating a diverse environment can be a challenging and demanding process for faculty members. In a new study, Jeni Hart, assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Missouri, examined how placing diversity and service work in a category separate from other faculty roles, such as scholarship and teaching, can create false dichotomies. http://www.physorg.com/news152802765.html Other Sciences Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:13:03 EST news152802765 People who lose a job or who are in the midst a financial crisis often are reluctant to talk about their struggles and may isolate themselves from friends and family. http://www.physorg.com/news151941398.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:57:25 EST news151941398 Critically ill patients frequently have uncertain prognoses, but their families overwhelmingly wish that physicians would address prognostic uncertainty candidly, according to a new study out of the University of San Francisco Medical Center. http://www.physorg.com/news149749529.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:05:29 EST news149749529 Interracial and interethnic interactions can often be awkward and stressful for members of both majority and minority groups. People bring certain expectations to their interactions with members of different groups -they often expect that these interactions will be awkward and less successful in establishing positive, long-lasting relationships than interactions with members of one's own racial or ethnic group. These expectations can cause people to interpret the vague comments and behaviors of others more negatively in intergroup situations, further confirming their negative perceptions of these interactions. http://www.physorg.com/news148736501.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:41:41 EST news148736501 NASA astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. Designed to help protect crew members' health and safety, the experimental "ENose" will monitor the space station's environment for harmful chemicals such as ammonia, mercury, methanol and formaldehyde. http://www.physorg.com/news146324434.html Space & Earth Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:40:34 EST news146324434 Vaccinating new mothers and other family members against influenza before their newborns leave the hospital creates a "cocooning effect" that may shelter unprotected children from the flu, a virus that can be life-threatening to infants, according to researchers at Duke Children's Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news144238717.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:18:37 EST news144238717 Clubfoot, one of the most common birth defects, has long been thought to have a genetic component. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have found the first gene linked to clubfoot in humans. Their research will be published in the Nov. 7 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news143980086.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:28:06 EST news143980086 A family of cancer-fighting molecules helps blood stem cells in mice decide when and how to divide, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Blocking the molecules' function spurs the normally resting cells to begin proliferating strangely - making too much of one kind of cell and not enough of another. Many types of human blood cancers involve a similar disruption in the expression of that same family of molecules. http://www.physorg.com/news142686276.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:04:36 EST news142686276 Family members may experience post-traumatic stress as many as six months after a loved one's stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to a study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of California, San Francisco. The study, published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that symptoms of anxiety and depression in family members of ICU patients diminished over time, but high rates of post-traumatic stress and complicated grief remained. http://www.physorg.com/news141301837.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:30:37 EST news141301837 Buoyed by a rising tide in California in general and Southern California in particular, U.S. unionization levels rose substantially this year, defying a decades-long trend of decline, according to a report by UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. http://www.physorg.com/news139499821.html Other Sciences Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:57:01 EST news139499821 An academic from the University of St Andrews is to delve into a series of embarrassing situations in an attempt to discover who makes us blush. http://www.physorg.com/news137339738.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:55:38 EST news137339738 With more employees working in teams, it is critical to find ways to enable teams to be more creative in their work. A new article in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal explores how imagination, insight, and creative ideas develop, evolve, and spread from one team member to another, ultimately increasing the team's ability to think creatively about a range of problems. http://www.physorg.com/news137324078.html Other Sciences Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:34:38 EST news137324078 While industrial action is largely perceived as a legitimate means of encouraging organisational change in Australia, research has shown industrial action can adversely affect those involved. http://www.physorg.com/news136632388.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:26:28 EST news136632388