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For You Men Out There: Marriage Improves Your Health
Marriage | March 5, 2012 The research is in: marriage improves the health of both sexes, but especially for men. Married men have greater longevity, overall physical health, and general happiness levels than their single counterparts. Oh yeah- they have more sex, too. 1. Married … Continue reading
How Grief Can Kill You
Life Guides | February 29, 2012 The intense emotional pain of losing a spouse can take a terrible toll psychologically, especially in the case of couples that have been in long-term marriages. But can grief actually trigger a heart attack? Science has recently confirmed what our … Continue reading
Can Nagging Ruin Your Marriage?
Marriage | February 7, 2012 New research indicates that nagging, when one person repeatedly makes a request and the other repeatedly ignores it, is more toxic to the health of a couple’s marriage than infidelity or financial problems. In fact, it is this type of … Continue reading
Can Anxiety Be Good for You?
Therapy | January 31, 2012 Rising to the Challenge For most of us, anxiety can hardly be imagined to be a positive thing- we often are overloaded with work, family, financial, social and relationship obligations to the point that we never feel relaxed. Many of us … Continue reading
What is Financial Infidelity?
Marriage | January 29, 2012 Financial infidelity occurs when one person in the marriage habitually lies to their partner about their spending habits, and it is done in such a way that it is threatening the health of the marital relationship. Sometimes the person has … Continue reading
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Mental Health News- In-Patient Suicides Reduced In Psychiatric Units May 18, 2012Suicides by psychiatric in-patients have fallen to a new low, research just published has found... […]
- Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK May 10, 2012During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this we […]
- Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk May 4, 2012According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood... […]
- Tackling Childhood Disabilities Through Environment May 3, 2012The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines... […]
- Dopamine Response Influences How Hard We Work May 2, 2012People with a greater dopamine response in the reward and motivation areas of the brain - the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex - tend to try harder, even when the odds are stacked up against them, compared to those with low dopamine response, researchers from University reported in The Journal of Neuroscience. The authors believe that dopamine inf […]
- In-Patient Suicides Reduced In Psychiatric Units May 18, 2012
