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Prevalence of religious congregations affects mortality rates
Jul 03, 2008 |
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LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment – that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale – affects mortality rates, often in a positive ...
Should the Pope be worried that Wales won the rugby Grand Slam this year?
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Doctors in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today are urging the Vatican's medical team to keep a special watch over the Pope this Christmas, after their research investigating the link between papal deaths and Welsh ...
Conservative Protestants' Religious Beliefs Contribute to Their Low Wealth, Study Shows
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Conservative Protestants tend to save less and accumulate fewer assets than other Americans, and their religious beliefs contribute to their low wealth, according to a new study by a Duke University sociologist.
Historians show how Angels survived Puritan purge by hanging round death beds
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Angels have an important role at Christmas, as part of the nativity story or just appearing on top of a Christmas tree. However they were nearly swept from our culture in a purge of Catholic practices and symbols by zealous ...
Psychiatrists are the least religious of all physicians
Sep 03, 2007 |
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A nationwide survey of the religious beliefs and practices of American physicians has found that the least religious of all medical specialties is psychiatry. Among psychiatrists who have a religion, more than twice as many ...
British colonial past no protection from corruption
May 12, 2008 |
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Former British colonies are just as likely to suffer from bribery and sleaze as any other country according to an international study.
Fear of discrimination saw Paddys and Biddys decline
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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The Durham and Northumbria Universities study, both based in the UK, suggests that a fear of prejudice made the Irish immigrants steer clear of giving their children Irish Catholic names, a trend also seen in today's society ...
Neurotic Ulsterman gives rich slice of eighteenth century life
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation into the life of an obscure but energetic eighteenth century Ulsterman has provided a vivid insight into early Hanoverian Britain.
Support for racial equality may be victim of Obama's election
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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"You've come a long way, baby." - Virginia Slims cigarette campaign
Poll: Most doctors favor evolution theory
Sep 28, 2005 |
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A national survey of 1,472 physicians indicates more than half -- 63 percent -- believe the theory of evolution over that of intelligent design.
Investors who 'gamble' in the stock market have same characteristics as lottery players
Feb 26, 2009 |
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The socioeconomic characteristics of people who play state lotteries are similar to investors who pick stocks with a lottery quality--high risk with a small potential for high return, and just like the lottery, returns on ...
The power of prayer?
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. ...
A virtual physician's conference
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Telemedicine facilitates communication between family physicians, hospitals and nursing services -- yet current solutions lack flexibility and are consequently very expensive. A new software program is now ...
Multi-institutional study identifies new form of inherited risk of cancer
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Like the subtext of a novel, the human genome sequence harbors more information than appears just in its "letters" of A, C, T and G. Since DNA is a data-packed molecule passed from generation to generation, comparing genome ...
What to do with leftover embryos in fertility clinics?
Sep 24, 2008 |
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The majority of infertility patients are in favor of using left-over embryos for stem cell research and would also support selling left-over embryos to other couples, according to a recent survey.
