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Will downturn uproot attitudes toward personal finances?October 19, 2008 Oct. 19--Home values have plummeted. Stock prices have spiraled down and down again. Job security is iffy, and banks are teetering on the brink.Source: PsycPORT.com | 19 Oct 2008 | 4:21 pm Rattled rich look for solace in therapyOctober 19, 2008 Atlanta psychologist Mary Gresham has built a steady practice over the years helping the newly wealthy with inheritance and other money concerns.Source: PsycPORT.com | 19 Oct 2008 | 4:21 pm Reaching an Autistic TeenagerA school in Georgia believes that it’s not too late for boys like Sam Gross to make emotional connections. All you need is a lot of energy and, sometimes, a magic box.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Oct 2008 | 2:48 pm Small Victories in the War Against Ovarian Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Ovarian cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to diagnose, making it one of the most lethal.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Oct 2008 | 1:02 pm Study Urges Low-Tech Solutions for Medical Errors (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Standardizing the look of medication labels could significantly decrease costly and potentially harmful medication errors, a new study suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Oct 2008 | 1:02 pm Freerunning founder flying through fearSebastien Foucan's death-defying skills have seen him fight James Bond and dance with Madonna, but the founder of freerunning insists the present moment is all that counts. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 1:01 pm Taiwan's bicycle makers riding high on global crisisFor the past six months Wayne Hsu has been cycling 45 minutes to his office every day, which he says gets him off to an energetic start and, more importantly, slashes his monthly petrol...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 12:44 pm Mice With Retinal Degeneration Have Had Their Vision Restored By Gene TherapyMassachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have used gene therapy to restore useful vision to mice with degeneration of the light-sensing retinal rods and cones, a common cause of human blindness. Their report, appearing in the Oct.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Fighting Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes And Other Metabolic Diseases By ComputerScientists know that different normal and diseased tissues behave differently. But a method that tells them just how they do so may one day give medical science a new way to fight obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other dangerous disorders of the metabolism.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am iMedica Partners With LDM GROUP to Offer ScriptGuide to Physician Practice CustomersSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 10:30 am Diabetes Pathfinder Award Goes To Einstein InvestigatorXingxing Zang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million NIH grant to study novel molecular approaches to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). Dr.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 10:00 am Computer Model Reveals Cells' Inner Workings - MITAfter spending years developing a computational model to help illuminate cell signaling pathways, a team of MIT researchers decided to see what would happen if they "broke" the model. The results, reported in the Oct.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 9:00 am Genetic Based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary LegacyTomislav Domazet-LoÅ¡o and Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, have systematically analysed the time of emergence for a large number of genes - genes which can also initiate diseases. Their studies show for the first time that the majority of these genes were already in existence at the origin of the first cells.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Family Planning Association Survey Confirms Public Support For Abortion In Northern IrelandNearly two thirds of Northern Irish people polled (62 per cent) say that abortion should be legal in cases of rape or incest, according to a new survey from fpa in Northern Ireland [1]. The strong support for women's right to choose is contrary to the myth that people in Northern Ireland do not want to see abortion available under any circumstances.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Ardea Biosciences Initiates Phase 1/2 Study Of RDEA119, Its Lead MEK Inhibitor, In Combination With Nexavar® In Patients With Advanced CancerArdea Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:RDEA) announced today that it has initiated a Phase 1/2 study of RDEA119, its lead mitogen-activated ERK kinase (MEK) inhibitor for the treatment of cancer, in combination with Nexavar, which is currently approved for the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma and advanced renal cell carcinoma.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Scientists Discover A Role For Remarkably Precise Timing In The Brain's 'Neural Code'Neurons in the sound-processing part of the brain's cortex are experts at timing. With remarkable precision, they fire electrochemical pulses or "spikes" in sync with the cues they receive from other neurons, even when these cues are separated by very small time intervals.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am US Presidential Debate - National Autistic Society Of UK Encouraged To See Autism High On The US Political AgendaMark Lever, chief executive of The National Autistic Society (UK) said; The National Autistic Society is delighted to see that autism is high up on the US political agenda. The presidential debate has done much to put autism in the spotlight and raise awareness of the challenges facing people with autism and their families.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Dartmouth's Work For The National Center For Disaster Mental Health Research Triggered By Hurricane IkeDartmouth researchers with the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research are preparing to visit the Galveston, Texas area on their first field mission in early November to study the impact of Hurricane Ike, which hit in late September.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am RPT-Brave faces, deep fears at Asia oil trader soireesSINGAPORE, Oct 19 (Reuters) - For the past five years, the annual get-together of Asia's oil trading professionals has been a celebratory affair, marked by steadily rising oil prices, expanding trading...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 6:43 am Kuwait KNPC oil workers postpone strikeKUWAIT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Oil workers at state refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) temporarily postponed a strike on Sunday after KNPC said it would meet their demands for better pay and staff...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 4:03 am Recipes for Health: Spaghetti With Tomatoes, Olives, Capers, Hot Peppers and AnchoviesA robust Italian sauce that is known as spaghetti alla puttanesca.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Oct 2008 | 3:50 am Ontario Medical Association ratifies new deal between doctors, provinceTORONTO - Without a contract since the end of March, the Ontario Medical Association has ratified a $1-billion deal with the province after 79 per cent of its members voted in favour of...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 12:42 am Ottawa to ban baby bottles containing controversial chemicalOTTAWA - Canada became the first country to limit the use of bisphenol A on Saturday when it formally declared the chemical a hazardous substance. The Conservatives will now move to...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2008 | 12:08 am Canada says BPA toxic, to ban baby bottles with it (AP)AP - Canada declared a chemical widely used in food packaging a toxic substance on Saturday and will now move to ban plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2008 | 11:31 pm 'Silent killer'Vaccinations could save thousands of children worldwideSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Oct 2008 | 11:14 pm E.coli cases linked to local restaurant still emerging in North Bay, Ont.NORTH BAY, Ont. - The number of confirmed and suspected cases in an E. coli outbreak in North Bay, Ont., continues to climb. Health officials say of 146 total cases, 24 of those are labSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Oct 2008 | 9:37 pm Integrated Beverage Group Launches Children's Throat Cooler(R)Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Oct 2008 | 9:35 pm RPT-Russia's Gazprom sees 2008 net profit at $30 blnMOSCOW, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom expects net profit of $30 billion this year, its chief executive said on Saturday, roughly level in dollar terms with the $29.70 billion...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Oct 2008 | 7:22 pm Running for my life: 1 woman's race against time (AP)AP - The routine was the same as always the exact way I have grown accustomed to dealing with the hours before a big race. But on that November morning last year, everything else was different.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2008 | 4:38 pm Mom can increase child's risk of depressionOctober 18, 2008 Originally Published:20081011.Source: PsycPORT.com | 18 Oct 2008 | 4:21 pm Watch for online bullying, but don't overreactOctober 18, 2008 Oct. 18--It's an understandable reaction for parents who didn't grow up in a wired generation -- they find out a bully is targeting their child over the Internet, so they yank out the computer, Clemson University psychology professor Robin Kowalski said.Source: PsycPORT.com | 18 Oct 2008 | 4:21 pm
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