Have psychiatric wards changed?

"If you found yourself locked up against your will in a psychiatric ward, you would probably do your best to get out. But in 1969 a group of people did just the opposite — they tried to get in. A young American psychologist called David Rosenhan persuaded seven friends...

Leona Helmsley grants go mostly to Medical Research not dogs

Trustees for Leona Helmsley's estate announced today that $136 million in charitable grants will go to causes other than looking after dogs, which was what she mainly wanted in her will after she passed away. The...

Research links Strokes with Arteries in Brain

It has long been convention wisdom that strokes are caused by a blockage in the arteries of the brain.  New information released by researchers at Edinburgh University point to another cause. "New research...

High Fructose Corn Syrup Supercharges Weight Gain: Study

New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center the amazing speed that our bodies make body fat from fructose. One of the reasons why low carb diets help you lose weight is that they reduce your intake of fructose.

Medical Research? Be an Informed Participant

Ms. Harriet A. Washington, having been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee...

Antibacterial Soap Additive Alters Hormone Activity

Triclocarban-containing products have been marketed broadly in the United States and Europe for more than 45 years; an estimated 1 million pounds of triclocarban are imported annually for the U.S. market.

Jonah Goldberg, Gay Sheep, and Stem Cells

"More Jonah Goldberg. That's my plea to the right -- please, please get more columnists like National Review's Jonah Goldberg. Nothing could do more to doom their cause. Never satisfied to simply make a point,...

Good News and Bad News from the New England Journal of Medicine

BOSTON (Digital Dementia News Services) - The New England Journal of Medicine today published a five-year study confirming that “beauty is only skin deep.”  Painstaking research by a team of...

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