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Lawmakers Debate Over Wearing High Heel Shoes At Work
By Hannah Grace | Mar 07, 2017 08:40 AM ESTWomen who constantly wear high heel shoes may suffer reduced balance, reduce ankle flexion and weaker muscle power in the calf.
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Bringing Politics In Workplace Could Affect Employee’s Productivity, Mental Health & Work Quality
By Hannah Grace | Mar 07, 2017 08:30 AM ESTThe effect of bringing people with different political views has been toxic and negative.
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Work Is Literally Killing People
By Minnow Blythe | Feb 05, 2017 08:17 PM ESTIn order to maintain a healthy life, a study suggests a 39-hour work week.
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Overworked? Japanese Government Asks Workers To Chill
By Hannah Grace | Jan 24, 2017 08:50 AM ESTWorking long hours is considered a virtue in the country. Around one in eight workers spends 80 hours or more in their work.
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Four Ways To Get Organized
By Kamal Nayan | Sep 11, 2014 03:22 PM EDTPeople who are really busy, for them work/life balance is a challenge. However, not same is the case with everyone. Some people are known to be really calm, cool and "in the moment" although they have sharper deadlines. How do they manage that?
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Adolescents' Social Behavior Depends on Emotional Ability and Stress Response
By Drishya Nair | Aug 02, 2012 08:53 AM EDTTeenage years can sometimes be the most difficult time to deal with, for children as well as for parents. It's when they are neither considered adults nor a child. This could be confusing and adolescents find it very difficult to cope with the situation. The physical, psychological and hormonal changes could make them fussy or irritated, and this certainly reflects in their interpersonal and social relationships. A study by researchers from University of Missouri describes how adolescents......
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Sleep Affects Effectiveness of Vaccines
Aug 01, 2012 10:10 AM EDTA new study led by a UCSF researcher shows that poor sleep can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines and is the first performed outside a sleep laboratory to show that sleep duration is directly tied to vaccine immune response.
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Smiling Could Help Reduce Stress
Jul 31, 2012 09:44 AM EDTPsychological scientists, Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman, from the University of Kansas studied the potential benefits of smiling by looking at how different types of smiling, and the awareness of smiling, affects individuals' ability to recover from episodes of stress.
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People With Superior Autobiographical Memory Have Different Brains
By Drishya Nair | Jul 31, 2012 09:04 AM EDTA latest research by UC Irvine scientists claims that people who have excellent autobiographic memory have different brains and mental processes than those who cannot. The first person ever to have been documented for her extraordinary memory of the past was identified as "AJ." However, this latest study is the first scientific evidence of almost a dozen people with this uncanny ability.
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Study: Coaches Could Help Fight Obesity
Jul 30, 2012 11:35 AM EDTResearchers from The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center say health coaches could play an important role in the battle of obesity.
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Psycological Abuse Harms Children: Study
By Drishya Nair | Jul 30, 2012 08:08 AM EDTA latest research warns parents that psychological abuse could be as damaging to a child's physical and mental health as physical abuse like slapping or punching. According to experts from American academy of pediatrics, even though its difficult to pinpoint or produce a figure, psychological abuse may be the most common type of child abuse. Psychological abuse includes the acts of belittling, denigrating, terrorizing, exploiting, emotional unresponsiveness, or corrupting a child to the point...
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One Act of Remembering Can Influence Future Acts
By Drishya Nair | Jul 30, 2012 07:52 AM EDTA recent study published on the journal Science states that remembering something old or noticing something new can bias how a person processes subsequent information. Can the simple act of recognizing a face as you walk down the street change the way we think? Or can taking the time to notice something new on our way to work change what we remember about that walk? The answer is Yes. Researchers from New Your University found, through an analysis, that recalling old memories of recognizing some...
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Children Understand Social Norms Very Early
By Drishya Nair | Jul 27, 2012 02:52 PM EDTOur action defines us and many of these things are taught to us by our parents or elders and there are many other aspects which are not taught. All these constitute social norms which govern our action and inaction. The observance of social norms helps us fit into the society. In a latest study by researchers Marco Schmidt and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the authors have attempted to better understand the important concept of 'social glue' ...
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Child Abuse Could Affect Menstrual Cycle
Jul 27, 2012 12:32 PM EDTResearchers from Boston University School of Medicine have found an association between childhood physical and sexual abuse and menstrual periods.
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Shift Work Linked to Increase Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke
Jul 27, 2012 11:37 AM EDTResearchers say shift workers are slightly more at risk of having a heart attack or stroke than day workers.
