Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Kele Ding
In the Harvard Public Health Review, seven HSPH faculty experts suggest concrete ways the next U.S. President can level the playing field for all Americans by promoting policies focused on:
- high quality schools
- safe neighborhoods and workplaces
- a cleaner environment
- reducing poverty
- desegregating our health care system
- protecting and nurturing the physical, mental and social development of children under the age [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Kele Ding
23 Apr 2008
Veterinarians in Australia have one of the highest expected suicide rates among other professions. A study in the Australian Veterinary Journal published by Wiley-Blackwell finds that vets are four times more likely to commit suicide as compared to the general adult population- thus highlighting the need for a thorough investigation into the rate [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Kele Ding
23 Apr 2008
A new study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) presents results on the first onset of substance use disorders (i.e., alcohol and drug abuse and dependence) and major mood and anxiety disorders, based on Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC).
This landmark survey [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kele Ding
22 Apr 2008
Stereotypes can boost as well as hinder our chances of success, according to psychologists from the University of Exeter and St Andrews University. Writing in the new edition of Scientific American Mind (out in the UK 22 April 2008), they argue that the power of stereotypes to affect our performance should not be [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
10 Apr 2008
If you clean your house vigorously for twenty minutes non-stop once a week, your anxiety, distress or depression may improve, according to a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The study also stresses that any type of vigorous physical exercise, sustained for a 20-minute period can have a good impact on [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Kele Ding
Published: Friday, 19 October 2007
Anytime after 30, hopefully as late as 40 or 45, some of that muscle we were so proud of begins to be replaced with fat. Where that fat is most likely to accumulate is around our middles. Even if we are the same weight we were 10 years earlier, gradually we [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Kele Ding
24 Mar 2008
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School have found that it’s possible to buy happiness after all: when you spend money on others.
In a series of studies, UBC Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Dunn found that individuals report significantly greater happiness if they spend money “pro-socially” – that is on [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Kele Ding
18 Mar 2008
I drink coffee. Here is a research about coffee container. Source: Aradhna Krishna and Maureen Morrin, “Does Touch Affect Taste? The Perceptual Transfer of Product Container Haptic Cues.” Journal of Consumer Research: April 2008.
Does coffee in a flimsy cup taste worse than coffee in a more substantial cup? Firms such as McDonalds and [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Kele Ding
MCPHS Launches Innovative Online Master Of Applied Natural Products Program
10 Mar 2008
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, which last year successfully launched the region’s first Master of Applied Natural Products Degree program, has announced it plans to offer a Blended/Online Master of Applied Natural Products degree program in Fall 2008. It is targeted at [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Kele Ding
The effectiveness of therapy
By Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD
APA President
My main campaign promise, to see that the funding to launch major studies on the effectiveness of therapy is made available, has been fulfilled. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has agreed to fund such studies on a massive basis. Effectiveness research promises to be a [...]
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