News tagged with emotional toll

A costly diagnosis: Alzheimer's disease takes toll on memories, and money too

Alzheimer's disease takes a devastating emotional toll on families but it also is one of the most expensive conditions to treat because of its progressive nature, requiring increasing assistance with eating, bathing and other ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Former trailblazer Kodak files for Chapter 11

Is Kodak's moment past? The glory days when Eastman Kodak Co. ruled the world of film photography lasted for over a century. Then came a stunning reversal of fortune: cutthroat competition from Japanese firms ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

UA study analyzes Israeli/Palestinian conflict news photos

Journalism faculty member Shahira Fahmy analyzed photos with differing points of view over the Gaza War.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Death tolls spur pro-war stance, study finds

Within hours this summer, 30 American troops died in a strike in Afghanistan and millions of American investors watched the Dow Jones Average shed an astonishing 634 points in one day.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 250 | with audio podcast

Connection not conflict is the best way forward

In the introduction to a new book Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen urges governments to focus on commonalities rather than differences.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors

(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Hospitals reach limits in E.coli crisis

(AP) -- Blood specialist Dr. Cay-Uwe von Seydewitz has been making his rounds 16 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, since the outbreak of a deadly bacterial epidemic.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Primordial fear: why radiation is so scary

Nuclear radiation is frightening stuff. A quarter century after Chernobyl, and more than 65 years after atomic bombs laid waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fatally sickening thousands not killed outright, even ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 11

What's behind our conflicted feelings on nukes?

(AP) -- Nuclear radiation, invisible and insidious, gives us the creeps.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 59

Study: Receiving work-related communication at home takes greater toll on women

Communication technologies that help people stay connected to the workplace are often seen as solutions to balancing work and family life. However, a new study in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior sugges ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drugs for hair loss and BPH may result in loss of libido, ED in men

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with colleagues at Lahey Clinic and from Denmark and Germany, have found that 5a-reductase inhibitors (5a-RIs), while improving urinary symptoms ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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