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Researchers identify secrets to happiness, depression among oldest of old

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neva Morris of Ames officially became America's oldest person and the second-oldest person in the world this month at the age of 114. And researchers from her community and Iowa State University's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More young people are winding up in nursing homes

(AP) -- Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Australian honey proves to be a powerful anti-bacterial treatment

Honey sourced from an Australian native myrtle tree has been found to have the most powerful anti-bacterial properties of any honey in the world and could be used to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Nurse filmed accidentally switching off Briton's ventilator

A nurse was secretly filmed accidentally switching off a tetraplegic British man's life-support machine, leaving him with brain damage, the BBC reported Monday as it showed the footage.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Study shows age doesn't necessarily affect decision-making

Many people believe that getting older means losing a mental edge, leading to poor decision-making. But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that when it comes to making intuitive decisions - using your ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Romania, Bulgaria have EU's sickest health systems

(AP) -- No sutures and other basics; a dire shortage of staff; catastrophic hygiene; then this - a hospital blaze that killed five premature babies. Romania's hospital system is on the ropes.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tell me where it hurts

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Connecticut study finds that the way a question is phrased is important when assessing pain.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How do people respond to being touched by a robot? (w/ Video)

For people, being touched can initiate many different reactions from comfort to discomfort, from intimacy to aggression. But how might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil, or would ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

RIBA-II, the next generation care-giving robot

A new robot using high-precision tactile sensors and flexible motor control technology has taken Japan one step closer to its goal of providing high-quality care for its growing elderly population. Developed ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Surgeon 'gluing' the breastbone together after open-heart surgery

An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art adhesive that rapidly ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Japan teddybear robot comforts elderly, snores

Japanese researchers have developed a cuddly teddybear robot designed to comfort the elderly and delight children by reading facial expressions and actions and responding to them.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Timely depression diagnosis critical to maintain health of elderly

Depression affects approximately 30 to 40 percent of nursing home residents, but it often goes unrecognized, according to American Geriatrics Society, which can lead to lower quality of life or even suicide. Now, researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Medical establishment prevents nurses from assuming new roles

Physicians still retain the bulk of decision-making power over nurses in Quebec - a situation that's detrimental to evolving nursing roles. According to a new study by Université de Montréal researchers, published ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Violence is part of the job say nurses as study shows only 1 in 6 incidents are reported

Three-quarters of nurses providing private and public care experienced workplace violence, but only one in six incidents were formally reported, according to study published in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Nu ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spoiler alert: TV medical dramas 'rife' with bioethical issues and breaches of professional conduct

A medical student and faculty directors from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics analyzed depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism over a full season of two popular medical dramas—"Grey's Anatomy" and ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nurse

A nurse (rarely medic) is a healthcare professional, who along with other health care professionals, is responsible for the treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings.

Nurses may also be involved in medical and nursing research and perform a wide range of clinical and non-clinical functions necessary to the delivery of health care. Nurses also provide care at birth and death. There is currently a shortage of nurses in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and a number of other developed countries.

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