Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: journal of behavioral medicine http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Study finds guided imagery helps manage symptoms of fibromyalgia (Medical Xpress)—Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing researchers have discovered that guided imagery significantly decreases stress, fatigue, pain and depression in women with fibromyalgia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-imagery-symptoms-fibromyalgia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:00:03 EST news272532989 Children raised with corporal punishment at greater risk of developing cancer and heart disease (Medical Xpress)—Parents who smack or shout at their children could be placing them at greater risk of developing cancer, heart disease and asthma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-children-corporal-greater-cancer-heart.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:13:38 EST news271933940 It pays to be healthier: Targeted financial incentives for patients can lead to health behavior change Financial incentives work for doctors. Could they work for patients, too? Could they encourage them to change unhealthy behaviors and use preventive health services more? In some cases, yes, according to Dr. Marita Lynagh from the University of Newcastle in Australia, and colleagues. Their work, looking at why financial incentives for patients could be a good thing to change risky health behaviors, indicates that incentives are likely to be particularly effective at altering 'simple' behaviors e.g. take-up of immunizations, primarily among socially disadvantaged groups. Their article is published online in Springer's International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-healthier-financial-incentives-patients-health.html Health Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:08:25 EST news241099697 Link between racial discrimination and stress described in new study The consequences of psychological stress, resulting from racial discrimination, may contribute to racial health disparities in conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other age-associated diseases. This is according to analyses of data from the epidemiologic study Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS)1, conducted by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-link-racial-discrimination-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:02:41 EST news235224112