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Reading Books and Playing Games May Help Prevent Dementia: Study
Playing board games and reading books may be casual pastimes, but new research suggests that activities like these can have a real impact on a person’s risk for developing dementia in old age.
The new study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, looked at more than 15,500 people ages 65 and older who were living in Hong Kong and were tracked for about five years. The men and women didn’t have dementia at the start of the study, though more than 1,300 people developed it by the end.
At the beginning of the trial and again during follow-up interviews, the men and women were asked about any “intellectual...
Source: TIME: Health - May 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alexandra Sifferlin Tags: Uncategorized Brain healthytime Source Type: news
Men to get their own magazine agony aunt – archive, 30 May 1974
30 May 1974:Woman ’s Own hopes it will encourage more men to put their worries on paper instead of sustaining a painful and harmful cover-upWoman ’s Own has started a problem page for men only. A gimmick? An imaginative new service? Keeping up with the times? Angela Willans (“Mary Grant,” the magazine’s “Can I help you?” lady) is too sincerely concerned about people to go in for gimmicks, and too modest to claim a breakthrough. Sh e says that about 10 per cent ofWoman ’s Own’s 500 problems a week has always come from men and that the new page has not made any notable difference. But she hopes it will enco...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 30, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Mary Stott Tags: Men Magazines Life and style Psychology Equal pay Women Relationships Source Type: news
Why thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findingsBudding authors face a minefield when it comes to publishing their work. For a large fee,as much as $3,000, they can make their work available to anyone who wants to read it. Or they can avoid the fee and have readers pay the publisher instead. Oftenit is libraries that foot this bill through expensive annual subscriptions. This is not the lot of wannabe fiction writers, it ’sthe business of academic publishing.More than 200 years ago,Giuseppe Piazzi, an isolated astronomer in Palermo, Sicily, discovered a dwarf p...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 29, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Neil Lawrence Tags: Science Academic experts Higher education Magazines Newspapers & Media Source Type: news
Guardian science reporter wins prize for vaginal mesh investigation
Hannah Devlin ’s reporting wins Association of British Science Writers award for best investigative journalismThe Guardian ’s science correspondent Hannah Devlin has scooped a coveted prize in the Association of British Science Writers awards for her investigation into the vaginal mesh scandal.Her report exposingNHS data on how thousands of women have undergone surgery to have vaginal mesh implants removed won in the category of best investigative journalism.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 17, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Matthew Weaver Tags: Science Awards and prizes Vaginal mesh implants Newspapers & magazines Media UK news Source Type: news
Entering a Golden Age of Medical Materials
Materials science is a field that is constantly evolving as technologies advance around us at lightning pace. New trends and developments continue to drive device innovation, but they also push new materials to the forefront as well. Device makers and engineers have made great strides in using these new materials to create exciting new technologies, with recent discoveries made from advances in medical electronics, biomaterials, plastics, and soft materials.
Jacqueline Anim is the principal material engineer for Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson that manufactures surgical systems and instruments. She currently...
Source: MDDI - April 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Kristopher Sturgis Tags: MD & M East (New York) Materials Source Type: news
More U.S. teens seeing e-cigarette ads
(Reuters Health) - A large and growing proportion of U.S. teens are seeing e-cigarette ads in stores, online, on television and in newspapers and magazines, a recent study suggests.
Source: Reuters: Health - April 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Still Life by Lindsay Bamfield winner of the Hysteria Short Story category 2017
‘Are you familiar with her work?’ asks someone standing near me. I turn from studying the painting, but he’s already moved on, pausing for an obligatory few seconds in front of each exhibit.
The gallery is small, minimalist, light with off-white walls and pale wood flooring. Not the sort of place I associate with Reda. In spite of what my father predicted, she has amounted to something after all: the Reda Martin Retrospective. I glance at the glossy brochure in my hand with a picture of her taken, I guess, around the time I visited her.
I was nine when I met my Aunt Reda. I knew about her only because the fami...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - April 1, 2018 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Hysteria hysteria 2017 hysteria 6 hysteria winners short story Source Type: news
US children now draw female scientists more than ever
(Northwestern University) When drawing scientists, US children now depict female scientists more often than ever, according to new Northwestern University research, which analyzed five decades of 'Draw-A-Scientist' studies conducted since the 1960s. This change suggests that children's stereotypes linking science with men have weakened over time, said the researchers, consistent with more women becoming scientists and children's media depicting more female scientists on television shows, magazines and other media.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertising Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2014-2016
In 2016, an estimated 4 in 5 (20.5 million) U.S. middle and high school students were exposed to e-cigarette advertisements from at least one source, a significant increase over 2014 and 2015. Nearly seven in 10 youths (17.7 million) were exposed to e-cigarette advertising in retail stores in 2016, while approximately two in five were exposed on the Internet or on television, and nearly one in four were exposed through newspapers and magazines.
Source: PHPartners.org - March 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
The influence of magazines on men: normalizing and challenging young men's prejudice with "lads' mags" - Hegarty P, Stewart AL, Blockmans IGE, Horvath MAH.
Social psychologists have argued that popular U.K. and U.S. men's magazines known as "lads' mags" have normalized hostile sexism among young men. Three studies develop this argument. First, a survey of 423 young U.K. men found that ambivalent sexism predic...
Source: SafetyLit - March 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
The backlash against Weight Watchers' program for teens is an absurd overreaction
If not for a structured program like Weight Watchers, it's unclear where these critics think young teens should get their information. The status quo will see that many seek guidance from gossip and fitness magazines, both of which are notorious for dangerous dietary advice.
Source: CBC | Health - March 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Opinion Source Type: news
Scientists prove that truth is no match for fiction on Twitter
Researchers find fake news reaches users up to 20 times faster than factual content – and real users are more likely to spread it than bots“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it,”wrote Jonathan Swift in 1710. Now a group of scientists say they have found evidence Swift was right – at least when it comes to Twitter.In the paper,published in the journal Science, three MIT researchers describe an analysis of a vast amount of Twitter data: more than 125,000 stories, tweeted more than 4.5 million times in total, all categorised as being true or false by at least one of six independent fact-checking organ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 8, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Alex Hern Tags: Twitter Science Internet Technology Media Blogging World news Newspapers & magazines Digital media Source Type: news
Valeritas takes on multiple daily insulin injections with wearable V-Go device
There are millions of Americans with Type II diabetes and many of them take multiple daily injections of insulin, using two injection pens – one for mealtime insulin and one for insulin throughout the day. But studies have found that people with Type II diabetes are willing to skip insulin injections if they have to inject the drug in public.
“If you’re a Type II patient, you read it in magazines, you see it on TV, you see it in movies, you hear it from primary care doctors – [your diabetes] is your fault,” Valeritas (NSDQ:VLRX) CEO John Timberlake told Drug Delivery Business News.
The stigma surroundi...
Source: Mass Device - March 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Diabetes Drug-Device Combinations Pharmaceuticals Wall Street Beat Sanofi-Aventis Valeritas Source Type: news
You can deny environmental calamity – until you check the facts | George Monbiot
Rosy worldviews that rely on avoiding inconvenient truths should always set alarm bells ringingOne of the curiosities of our age is the way in which celebrity culture comes to dominate every aspect of public life. Even the review pages of the newspapers sometimes look like a highfalutin version of gossip magazines. Were we to judge them by the maxim “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”, they would not emerge well. Biography dominates. Ideas often seem to come last. Brilliant writers such as Sylvia Plath are better known for their lives than their work. Turning her into t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 7, 2018 Category: Science Authors: George Monbiot Tags: Steven Pinker Environment Carbon footprints Pollution UK news Science Endangered species Endangered habitats Source Type: news
SpringerNature hurries 7 billion euro Frankfurt listing
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros (6.17 billion pounds)including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets, people close to the matter said.
The company, which also publishes Scientific American, is planning to announce its initial public offering (IPO) in May, with a Frankfurt listing slated to take place four weeks later, they said, adding that originally plans had been for a July listing.
Following recent market volatility, some IPO hopefuls have sped up listing plans to reduce the time lag and avoid being t...
Source: News from STM - February 26, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
