News tagged with distressing experiences
Recovering from job loss: Most report few long-term psychological effects, study finds
Losing a job is a profoundly distressing experience, but the unemployed may be more resilient than previously believed – the vast majority eventually end up as satisfied with life as they were before they lost their ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Mental health affected by perceived life-threat
Feeling like your life is in danger during an accident or disaster can have long-term negative effects on health - whether or not the threat to your life was real. This is one of the results of a new doctoral thesis from ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Study explores how life experiences contribute to the biological changes of Alzheimer's
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Rush University Medical Center approximately $5.5 million in grants to study how epigenetic changes - chemical modifications to genes that result from diet, aging, stress, or ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Girls face 'sexting' threat from peers
A report commissioned by the NSPCC, conducted in collaboration with King’s College London, reveals the level that ‘sexting’ has reached among teenagers, with schoolgirls facing increasing pressure ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 16, 2012 |
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Many US families are underwater with debts: study
As the country emerges from the Great Recession, a substantial number of U.S. families are underwater—and not just with their mortgages.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 08, 2012 |
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Better ethics education needed in community-based research
A growing number of health research programs are collaborating with community groups to conduct research. The groups help recruit study participants, obtain informed consent, collect data and provide input on study design ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 03, 2012 |
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Beyond Traditional Borders wins Science magazine's IBI Prize
Science magazine has awarded a Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) to Rice University's hands-on engineering education program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) as a model for other schools. In the ...
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Citrus greening bacterium may 'ring the dinner bell' to attract insect
The bacterium responsible for citrus greening causes infected trees to give off a scent that rings the dinner bell for the disease-carrying insect, University of Florida researchers say.
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Pawnshops spread to Internet
In a sputtering economy, cash-strapped consumers are flocking to a new way of getting quick, short-term loans: online pawn stores. It's yet another instance of online retailers pouncing on the turf of a brick-and-mortar industry.
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some
The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Cell movement patterns
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whereas a cut knee often reduces children to tears, adults are more likely to be distressed by the fear of cancer. In both cases, that is wound healing and the growth and spread of tumours, ...
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Solution proposed to suffering caused by horse nosebands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nosebands on horse bridles are being tightened so much in some equestrian competitions that horses are suffering stress, reduced blood flow in the area and ultimately even deformed nasal bones, ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit
The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2012 |
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