Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: blind spots http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Know thyself: How mindfulness can improve self-knowledge paying attention to one's current experience in a non-judgmental way—might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according to a new article published in the March 2013 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-thyself-mindfulness-self-knowledge.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:10:59 EST news282496251 When rugby and mechanical science collide The rugby maul can sometimes look like the most unscientific of game techniques, but players are now benefitting from a new technical training aid, designed with help from engineering experts at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-rugby-mechanical-science-collide.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:09:36 EST news282470970 Emphasis on 'value' in health care reform sends mixed messages, physician says The wide consensus that health care spending poses a threat to the nation's fiscal solvency has led to the championing of "value" as a goal of health care reform efforts. But the divergence of opinions between patients and physicians on the meaning of value presents an obstacle to progress in achieving genuine reform, says Lisa Rosenbaum, MD, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and cardiologist at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-emphasis-health-reform-messages-physician.html Health Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:00:09 EST news281808174 Poll: Many Americans don't see their kids as overweight (HealthDay)—Many American parents fail to see that their children are overweight or obese, a new poll finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-poll-americans-dont-kids-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:50:01 EST news281019146 In combat vets and others, high rate of vision problems after traumatic brain injury Visual symptoms and abnormalities occur at high rates in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI)—including Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans with blast-related TBI, reports a study, "Abnormal Fixation in Individuals with AMD when Viewing an Image of a Face", in the February issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-combat-vets-high-vision-problems.html Neuroscience Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:50:01 EST news279200228 Malaria progress falters, WHO goals unrealistic (AP)—The fight against malaria is slowing down amid a dramatic drop in efforts to reverse the epidemic, even as health officials insist they will try to meet their idealistic target of virtually eliminating deaths from the parasitic illness by the end of 2015. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-malaria-falters-goals-unrealistic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:04:27 EST news274957458 Driving errors increase with age among older drivers Even healthy adults with a safe driving record tend to make more driving errors as they age, including potentially dangerous mistakes, such as failing to check blind spots, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-errors-age-older-drivers.html Neuroscience Mon, 16 May 2011 10:52:22 EST news224761930