News tagged with life in balance


How Students Can Stick to Hard-to-Follow New Year’s Resolutions

How Students Can Stick to Hard-to-Follow New Year's Resolutions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter quarter at UC San Diego begins on Jan. 5 and many students are carrying a variety of New Year’s resolutions along with their textbooks. Students who have resolved to improve their lives ...





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What connects the elderly and sports people? Smart sensor technology

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training.


Medical simulators can breathe, bleed, give birth -- and help students hone skills

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It was a high-stress situation for three nurses who had never delivered babies: A woman was 32 weeks pregnant, in pain and having contractions.


Transplant guide highlights daily infection risks from factors like pets and food

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Keeping pets healthy can reduce infection risks for people who have received solid organ transplants and veterinarians should be seen as an integral part of the healthcare team. That's just one of the key pieces of advice ...


Exploring energy efficiency in multi-scale computing systems

Exploring energy efficiency in multi-scale computing systems

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The University of California, San Diego and nine other universities are members of a new research center charged with finding ways to improve the design of computing systems ranging from large data centers ...


Bacteria wouldn't opt for a swine flu shot

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Bacteria inhabited our planet for more than 4 billion years before humans showed up, and they'll probably outlive us by as many eons more. That suggests they may have something to teach us.


Couples who do the dishes together stay happier

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study published by The University of Western Ontario reveals that couples who share the responsibility for paid and unpaid work report higher average measures of happiness and life satisfaction than those in other family ...


Discovery of new gene called Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that ...


Ending the cycle of poverty

Ending the cycle of poverty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many academically talented high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, are figuring out what outfit to wear to school on a particular day, other top grade-earners are busily getting ...


Study highlights implications of influenza pandemics on blood supplies

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created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A German research team has examined data on supply and demand for blood transfusions against a computer simulation of an influenza pandemic, and discovered that a severe pandemic scenario could quickly lead to a deficit of ...


Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life

Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 5

Getting the correct balance of proteins in our diet may be more important for healthy ageing than reducing calories, new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and Research into Ageing suggests.



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