Tag: stuff

  • An Earthquake Strikes? A Flood Hits? Grab the Insulin!

    Wars. Terrorist attacks. Earthquakes. Floods.They are the stuff of front-page news, the kinds of stories we associate with a scramble for health care workers whose expertise is emergency medicine – people who know how to stitch up lacerations, set bones, transfuse blood.Until recently, the more mundane health needs typically associated with…

  • Email interventions may offer a way to better wellbeing

    By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – An email-based program may help decrease stress and increase confidence and feelings of gratitude, according to an unusual study from Finland. It’s not clear how interesting these findings are, said Dr. Giovanni A. Fava of the University of Bologna and the State University of New York at Buffalo, who…