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Medical team's support of terminal cancer patients' spiritual needs improves quality of life

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found support of patients' spiritual needs by the medical team is associated with greater use of hospice, less aggressive care, ...





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College asks students to power down, contemplate (AP)

College asks students to power down, contemplate

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Dianne Lynch wanted to give the students of Stephens College a break from the constant digital communication that pervades their generation. So she asked them to put their phones and computers away ...


Poll finds 3/4 of parents who tried to get H1N1 vaccine for their children have gotten it

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new poll by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows the shortage of H1N1 vaccine for children is easing. As of late last week, three-quarters of parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children ...


Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...


Scientists retrieve Caravaggio's presumed remains

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Italian scientists Monday collected from a small chapel bones that are presumed to be the remains of celebrated Renaissance artist Caravaggio who died 400 years ago.


Disparity in use of implantable devices to prevent sudden death in heart failure patients

Medicine & Health / Research

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

A study of heart failure patients who meet national guidelines for devices that stabilize and strengthen the heart's electrical system found that only half of eligible patients received the devices. The study, which is the ...


Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


About 25 percent of Arabs in Greater Detroit reported abuse post Sept. 11

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

One quarter of Detroit-area Arab Americans reported personal or familial abuse because of race, ethnicity or religion since 9/11, leading to higher odds of adverse health effects, according to a new University of Michigan ...


Negative emotions outweigh intent to exercise at health clubs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Time and time again, it has been documented that regular exercise has many health benefits including lowering risks associated with the comorbidities of obesity. With only 30% of Americans trying to lose weight meeting the ...


Facebook mines Census data to track its diversifying users

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first-ever study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social ...


Prayer on the hospital floor

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

What happens when the families of sick and dying hospitalized children ask their physicians to pray with them, or for them? How do pediatricians respond to such personal requests? While increasing numbers of physicians say ...



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