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Improving slumber on the space station with sleep-long

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home. Just imagine if you were approximately 210 miles from home and free floating in a spacecraft orbiting the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

1 in every 5 Spaniards suffers from insomnia

Insomnia is common in Spain, and affects one person in every five. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona and the Stanford University School of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computerized systems reduce psychiatric drug errors

Coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric unit, suggests new Johns ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study: Homeless patients cost $2,500 more than the average patient for each hospital stay

Homeless patients cost about $2,500 more per hospital stay than the average patient, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study examines prevalence of eating disorders among adolescents

Eating disorders are prevalent in the general U.S. adolescent population and are associated with other psychiatric disorders, role impairment, and suicidality, according to a report posted online today that will appear in ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New biological pathway identified for post-traumatic stress disorder

High blood levels of a hormone produced in response to stress are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in women but not men, a study from researchers at Emory University and the University of Vermont has found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hallucinogen can safely ease anxiety in advanced-stage cancer patients: study

In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin, an hallucinogen which occurs naturally in "magic mushrooms," can safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-stage ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Severity of binge eating disorder linked to childhood sexual or emotional abuse

Imagine stuffing yourself with a day's worth of food in two hours or less. Imagine feeling disgusted, depressed and guilty once you finally stop. Then imagine doing it again, repeatedly and uncontrollably, once a week or ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mentally ill threat in nursing homes

(AP) -- Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

UCSD Researcher Explores Gender, Humanity and (Virtual) Reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an age when biotechnology has made it possible to alter the fundamentals of our food supply, our energy sources and even our genetic makeup, one graduate student at the University of California, ...

Technology / Other

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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