Everyone knows that money can’t buy happiness – but what might make rich people happier is revealed in the current issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology.James A. Roberts of Baylor University and his two colleagues set out to explore the relationship between materialism –…

Similar Outcomes Seen When CABG Performed by Supervised Residents or Attending Physicians, According to Presentation at 95th AATS Annual Meeting When educating medical students or residents to perform highly technical procedures, there is always a challenge to balance the educational mission with maintaining quality results…

Being bullied in childhood has a greater negative impact on teenager’s mental health than being maltreated, according to new research published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal. The findings show that individuals who are bullied in childhood are around five times more likely to experience anxiety…

The government, pharmaceutical industry, and national medical organisations need to work together to look at the harms and benefits of long-term use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by healthy individuals, say neuroscientists Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir from the University of Cambridge in the UK,…

Each hour spent watching TV daily increases the risk of developing diabetes by 3.4%, concludes a study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes). The study, on the effects of sedentary or ‘sitting’ time on diabetes risk, is…

Johns Hopkins report offers physicians tips to help patients make the right call Cholesterol-lowering statins have transformed the treatment of heart disease. But while the decision to use the drugs in patients with a history of heart attacks and strokes is mostly clear-cut, that choice…

If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy. However, breast cancer is rare in adolescents, and the vast majority of teenage breast lumps turn out to be benign masses that are related to hormones…

The spectre of increased sales and use of illicit tobacco has been used as a reason for governments to avoid tobacco policy innovations such as plain packaging and tax increases.New research being presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Thoracic Society for Australia and…

For chronically ill patients with major depression, an approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) that incorporates patients’ religious beliefs is at least as effective as conventional CBT, suggests a study in the April issue of The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.“Integrating religious clients’ beliefs into…

8-minute procedure relieves urinary symptoms, preserves sexual function By age 60, more than 50 percent of men in the United States suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition that leads to annoying changes in urinary flow. While medical therapy is usually the first line…

Results reflect a ‘real world’ picture of diabetic patients Among diabetic patients with severe heart disease, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery is better than stenting (percutaneous coronary intervention; PCI) at improving long-term survival and reducing the risk of adverse complications, according to an article…

Research by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests that having a short series of phone conversations with trained counselors can substantially boost recovery and reduce pain in patients after spinal surgery.The phone calls, designed to enrich standard pre- and post-operative care by reinforcing the value of sticking…