Archive: 06/09/2016
High utility bills trigger anxiety and depression in low-income households
A researcher at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied a hidden source of hardship: energy insecurity, the inability to adequately meet basic household energy needs, and its adverse environmental, health, ...
Sep 6, 2016
Engineer developing haptic feedback system for med students
This could be the best and most realistic version of "Operation" ever, but a system under development at Rice University to help train doctors is no game.
Sep 6, 2016
Overexpression of corticotropin-releasing factor increases anxiety in primates
A new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that overexpression of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), a stress-related gene, increases anxious temperament in monkeys. According to Ned Kalin from the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Sep 6, 2016
Young people exposed to vaping ads less likely to think occasional smoking is bad for health
Exposure to advertisements for e-cigarettes may decrease the perceived health risks of occasional tobacco smoking, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, prompting concern that this may lead more young people ...
Sep 6, 2016
HIV patients aging before their time
While combination antiretroviral therapy has meant that people with HIV can live longer lives, research shows that the virus makes fundamental changes to the immune system by increasing the risk of developing age-related ...
Sep 6, 2016