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Encountering connections may make life feel more meaningful

Experiencing connections, regularities, and coherence in their environment may lead people to feel a greater sense of meaning in life, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Ps ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Self-image worse for teens with untreated scoliosis

(HealthDay)—Adolescents with untreated adolescent idiopathic scoliosis report worse pain and worse self-image than unaffected adolescents, although the difference is clinically significant only for self-image, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicians debate whether patients need to know they're dying

In the days when American physicians dispensed oracular commands and their judgments were rarely questioned, a doctor could take it upon himself with few ethical qualms to keep from a patient the bad news of a terminal diagnosis.

Health created Apr 28, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0