Filed under: Health on 19 November 2006 @ 9:54
A recent press release by the Karolinska Institutet, a medical university in Sweden, notes a study revealing that stress in early life can be a major factor in later development of chronic fatigue syndrome. The study looked at 20,000 Swedish twins surveyed in 1973 and again in 1998. The scientists also noted a correlation between [...]
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Filed under: Community, Health on 18 November 2006 @ 19:15
This Sunday, being the 3rd Sunday in November, is the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims, according to the World Health Organization (WMO). “In a split second, a traffic crash transforms forever the life of a family. Behind each statistic, there are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, colleagues, [...]
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Filed under: Health on 18 November 2006 @ 17:54
At a recent Earth Systems Science Partnership (ESSP) conference in Bejing, one of the plenary sessions was on the Importance of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Earth System Science. The description of the session noted the importance of continued research and mitigation strategies to offset negative impacts of global environmental change. There is no doubt that [...]
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Filed under: Health, Technology on 18 November 2006 @ 16:10
With a few days more than a month to go until Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting short. Even at noon, the sun is a lot closer to the horizon than it was a month or two ago. For many, the lack of light also triggers a set of depressive symptoms [...]
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