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New Study Highlights Impact of Environmental Change on Older People
January 31, 2013 — Recent natural disasters illustrate vulnerability of older people: majority of deaths from the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011) and Hurricane Katrina (2005) occurred among older people. Researchers ... > full story -
Disasters Prompt Older Children to Be More Giving, Younger Ones to Be More Selfish
January 30, 2013 — A natural disaster can bring out the best in older children, prompting 9-year-olds to be more willing to share, while 6-year-olds become more selfish. Researchers made this finding in a rare natural ... > full story -
Safeguards Needed for Tissue Donors
January 28, 2013 — Donors to biobanks -- vast collections of human tissue samples that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for diseases -- have a right to basic information about how their donations may be ... > full story -
Studying Possible Ways of Solving the Crisis in the Care Function
January 28, 2013 — In today’s society, there is a significant imbalance in the function of the care of the elderly. While the population ages more and more, the social mechanisms set up to perform the care ... > full story -
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Experts Propose Overhaul of Ethics Oversight of Research
January 23, 2013 — The longstanding ethical framework for protecting human volunteers in medical research needs to be replaced because it is outdated and can impede efforts to improve health care quality, assert ... > full story -
'Invisible' Filipino History in Annapolis Documented
January 23, 2013 — Filipinos have been an invisible minority in Annapolis, Md., for more than a century. Now, researchers are using oral histories as a way to flesh out their life and times -- documenting the ... > full story -
Scientists Underestimated Potential for Tohoku Earthquake: Now What?
January 23, 2013 — The massive Tohoku, Japan, earthquake in 2011 and Sumatra-Andaman superquake in 2004 stunned scientists because neither region was thought to be capable of producing a megathrust earthquake with a ... > full story -
Forcing Choice May Hamper Decision-Making, Study Finds
January 23, 2013 — Constraining choice isn't necessarily a good thing when it comes to managers' problem-solving, according to a new Canadian study. Managers tend to pick higher-risk options when forced to choose ... > full story -
Bioethics Leader Calls for Bold Approach to Fighting Obesity
January 22, 2013 — Arguing that obesity "may be the most difficult and elusive public health problem the United States has ever encountered" and that anti-obesity efforts having made little discernible difference, one ... > full story -
Men More Likely Than Women to Commit Scientific Fraud
January 22, 2013 — Male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs across the career spectrum, from trainees to senior faculty. The analysis of professional misconduct was co-led ... > full story
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