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'Social Environmental Factors' Affect Rehospitalization Risk in Home Healthcare Patients
November 12, 2012 — For elderly patients receiving home healthcare after a hospital stay, "social environmental factors" -- particularly care provided by a family member or other informal caregiver -- have a significant ... > full story -
Physicians Often Fail to Disclose Conflicts of Interest on Social Media
November 12, 2012 — As the use of Twitter and other social media by physicians and patients rises, more and more physicians seem to forget to do what many consider crucial for building doctor-patient trust: disclose ... > full story -
New Form of Brain Plasticity: How Social Isolation Disrupts Myelin Production
November 11, 2012 — Animals that are socially isolated for prolonged periods make less myelin in the region of the brain responsible for complex emotional and cognitive behavior, researchers ... > full story -
High-Quality Personal Relationships Improve Survival in Women With Breast Cancer
November 9, 2012 — The quality of a woman's social networks -- the personal relationships that surround an individual -- appears to be just as important as the size of her networks in predicting breast cancer ... > full story -
Alcoholic Men Demonstrate a Deficit in Empathy and Distorted View of Irony
November 8, 2012 — Emotions are often implicit undertones to our communication interactions, and decoding them requires substantial social and cognitive abilities. Prior research has shown that chronic alcoholics often ... > full story -
Education Levels in Asian American Neighborhoods Affect Residents' Health, Study Finds
November 8, 2012 — Higher neighborhood education is associated with better self-rated health among Asian Americans who live in Asian ethnic neighborhoods, but this correlation between individual health and neighborhood ... > full story -
Learning Who's the Top Dog: Study Reveals How the Brain Stores Information About Social Rank
November 8, 2012 — Researchers have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn ordinary information. The study provides clues as to how this information ... > full story -
Dynamics of Facebook: Structure of the Network Drives Friends to Congregate Into Many Small, Highly Interconnected Communities
November 8, 2012 — For the first time, the dynamics of how Facebook user communities are formed have been identified, revealing surprisingly few large communities and innumerable highly connected small-size ... > full story -
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Social Networking Info Will Increasingly Influence Med Student and Trainee Doctor Selection, Study Suggests
November 7, 2012 — The use of social networking sites is set to increasingly influence the selection of medical students and trainee doctors in the US, suggests the largest study of its ... > full story -
Why Fish Talk: Clownfish Communication Establishes Status in Social Groups
November 7, 2012 — Clownfish produce sounds to establish and defend their breeding status in social groups, but not to attract mates, according to ... > full story
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