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Relationships hold key to spiritual care

Relationships hold the key to giving terminally ill patients the spiritual care they need. However, researchers have pinpointed a mismatch between patients' expectations and understanding when it comes to spirituality, and ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New guidelines for incorporating spirituality in end-of-life care

Guidelines derived from a recent Consensus Conference, including recommendations on the role of healthcare providers in the assurance of quality spiritual care to patients in a palliative care setting, are published in a ...

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Social welfare cuts ultimately come with heavy price, researchers say

(Phys.org) -- Slashing government funding for Medicaid, food stamps and other programs that serve the poor – while politically popular with some lawmakers and many conservatives – may do more harm ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 220

Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwin's daughter

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s life.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Most Americans say media coverage of religion too sensationalized

Two-thirds of the American public says religion coverage is too sensationalized in the news media – a view held by less than 30 percent of reporters, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

US believers favor international action on climate change, nuclear risk: poll

A majority of Americans professing belief in God favor cooperative international efforts to combat climate change and the spread of nuclear weapons - branding it a moral obligation - says a new public opinion ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 40

New home movies resurrect endangered American Indian language

University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people who speak it.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Conservation scientists 'unanimous' in expectations of serious loss of biological diversity

The number of species being recognised as endangered is ever increasing and a new study, published in Conservation Biology, reveals the unanimity among conservation scientists of expectations of a major loss of biological divers ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says (Update)

(AP) -- A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life - giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple "corrupt" and delaying cancer ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Humans naturally cooperative, altruistic, social

The condition of man is a condition of war, wrote 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. A quick glance through history books and today's news headlines certainly seems to support the longstanding idea that humans by nature ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 40

Teen's religious commitment springs from relationships, study shows

For the 12,000 teens who participate each year, EFY is a time for game nights, dances, and cheer-offs, and now a study at BYU illustrates the program’s secrets to success.

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created May 20, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Increased life expectancy discourages religious participation

Churches will continue to attract older congregations as increasing life expectancy encourages people to put off involvement in religion, according to new research.

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created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6


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