What causes patients to delay seeking medical help?
What causes patients with symptoms of a heart attack to delay seeking medical help? view more (2002-04-24)
Scientists Present 'Moving' Theory Behind Bacterial Decision-Making
Biochemists at North Carolina State University have answered a fundamental question of how important bacterial proteins make life-and-death decisions that allow them to function, a finding that could provide a new target for drugs to disrupt bacterial decision-making processes and related diseases. view more (2008-11-25)
Open Access to Italian cancer research
BioMed Central, the Open Access publisher, has secured a major membership deal in Italy, it was announced today. Alleanza contro il cancro, (ACC - Alliance Against Cancer) has purchased BioMed Central membership for nine oncology institutes in Italy. The membership agreement covers the cost of publication, in BioMed Central's 100+ Open Access... view more... (2004-05-07)
Researchers use brain scans to predict when people will buy products
For the first time, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine what parts of the brain are active when people consider whether to purchase a product and to predict whether or not they ultimately choose to buy the product. view more (2007-01-05)
New scientific management at IMM
Within the scope of a works meeting Prof. Theodor Doll (42) introduced himself to all staff members of IMM and thanked his antecessor, Prof. Gerhard Schönhense from the Institute of Physics at the University of Mainz, all decision-makers of IMM and his new collegues for the extraordinary starting base to further expand the scientific leading... view more... (2004-02-09)
Change on the range
In the Southwestern U.S., land managers face equally critical and difficult decisions when it comes to their ranges. view more (2007-08-14)
Weighing the options after life-altering stroke
Choosing to have aggressive brain surgery after suffering a severe stroke generally improves the patients' lives and allows them to live longer, according to research by neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. view more (2009-03-13)
OTC statins: a bad decision for public health (p 1659)
This week's editorial raises concerns over the recent decision by the UK government to make the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin available over the counter (OTC) from July this year for people at moderate risk of cardiovascular disease. The editorial comments: 'There are no trials of OTC statins for primary prevention of heart disease. There... view more... (2004-05-19)
How fairness is wired in the brain
In the biblical story in which two women bring a baby to King Solomon, both claiming to be the mother, he suggests dividing the child so that each woman can have half. Solomon's proposed solution, meant to reveal the real mother, also illustrates an issue central to economics and moral philosophy: how to distribute goods fairly. view more (2008-05-29)
Helmets harm thinking at the crease
Wearing a standard protective helmet might be the sensible and safe thing to do whilst batting, but a new study by psychologists has found that, true to popular perception amongst many cricketers, it may affect performance. These findings from Dr Nick Neave, Dr Mark Moss and John Emmett of the School of Psychology and Sports Science at Northumbria... view more... (2004-04-15)
Cleanliness Can Compromise Moral Judgment
New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, showing that intuition, rather than deliberate reasoning can influence our perception of what is right and wrong. view more (2008-12-01)
Government decision ignores the wishes of older people
Government's decision to make it legal for employers to dismiss people at 65 simply because of their age flies in the face of what older people want, makes no economic sense, and is stretching the European directive on age discrimination, said Professor Stephen McNair, Director of the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce at the University... view more... (2004-12-15)
Researchers map links between size of hippocampus and progression to Alzheimer's dementia
UCLA researchers sought to test the theory that the hippocampus - the area of the brain that processes memory - is smaller in patients with mild cognitive impairment who develop into Alzheimer's dementia, and that it is larger in patients with mild cognitive impairment who experience cognitive stability or improvement. view more (2006-05-09)
Battling the Bulge in Adolescents: Students Learn Healthy Eating Habits with Computer-based Teaching
According to the Center for Disease Control, 9 million young people in America are overweight, making the need to promote nutrition and health a public priority. Teaching children about healthy eating habits is an important part of student health education in public schools. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Nursing... view more... (2004-07-15)
UT Southwestern researchers discover brain's memory 'buffer' in single cells
Individual nerve cells in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories on their own for as long as a minute and possibly longer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. view more (2009-01-26)
Optimism isn't always healthy
People are generally optimistic, believing they'll do better in the future than they've done in the past. This time around, I'll actually use that gym membership. view more (2007-12-05)
Non-invasive wearable heart care
Linking continuous monitoring of 'health behaviour' through non-invasive wearable sensors with decision support HEARTS offers support to healthy, ill, and high-risk people alike. view more (2004-10-28)
Agriculture Can Be Managed From Outer Space
The first attempt in the Russian Federation to utilize contemporary information technologies for efficient farm production management has been made. The decision-making support system for agricultural enterprises is being tested at a private agricultural farm in the Orenburg Province. Information technologies, which formerly served solely space... view more... (2003-08-15)
EMBC extends agreement with EMBO
At their recent meeting, the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) voted unanimously to support the European Molecular Biology Organization's (EMBO) activities for nine further years. "This decision is particularly interesting at a time when the concept of a European Research Council is actively discussed," said Julio Celis,... view more... (2002-08-20)
Brent Spar-Second Scientific Report on Decommissioning
The environmental impacts of the new disposal option for Brent Spar selected by Shell Expro and the original deep sea disposal plan are both acceptably small, according to the Second Report of the Scientific Group on Decommissioning Offshore Structures released today (30 June). The report by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)... view more... (1998-06-30)
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