Invoking a sense of guilt—a common tool used by advertisers, fundraisers and overbearing parents everywhere—can backfire if it explicitly holds a person responsible for another's suffering, a meta-analysis of studies ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Health workers need support to provide culturally sensitive care for refugees and migrants, says a new wide-ranging policy report from the World Health Organization into the mental health of migrants and refugees.
Oct 11, 2023
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In a high-tech lab on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus in Baltimore, engineers have been building a robot that may be able to stitch back together the broken vessels in your belly and at some point maybe your brain, ...
Mar 24, 2022
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January is National Blood Donor Month, which makes this a good time to become a blood donor.
Jan 20, 2022
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The "white cane" that many blind people rely on for navigating the world hasn't been upgraded in a century, but researchers are reporting progress on a "robo-cane" they hope will modernize the assistive device.
Sep 16, 2021
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In all likelihood, poor mental health has blighted every age of human existence. Evolutionary psychologists suggest it may be an intrinsic, even necessary, condition for our species. But there are grounds to suppose that ...
Aug 12, 2019
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I don't know why it took so long to dawn on me – after 20 years of a scientific career – that what we call the "scientific method" really only refers to the second half of any scientific story. It describes how we test ...
Mar 4, 2019
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All humans have fundamental needs. These are physiological (food, drink, clothing, sleep), safety (emotional security, physical safety, health), love and belonging (friendships, community), esteem (respect, dignity) and self-actualisation ...
Sep 19, 2018
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