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http://theconversation.com/loneliness-on-its-way-to-becoming-britains-most-lethal-condition-94775 Analysis of 300,000 people in 148 studies found that loneliness is associated with a 50% increase in mortality from any cause. This makes it comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and more dangerous than obesity. As the lead researcher of the analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, comments: Loneliness significantly increasesContinue Reading

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Can #immunotherapy succeed in glioblastoma? A research update on efforts to use the immune system to treat brain cancer: https://t.co/3fmGDif0HA #CancerCurrents pic.twitter.com/MWKqdlGwfv — National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) October 4, 2018 Cancer treatments that work by engaging the immune system to attack tumors have proven to be effective against a growingContinue Reading

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If there’s one thing to learn from the tuskless elephants of Mozambique, it’s that evolution can move at warp speed — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 21, 2018 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/elephants-africa-tusks-ivory-poaching-born-without-a7440706.html An increasing number of African elephants are now born tuskless because poachers have consistently targetted animals with the best ivoryContinue Reading

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Immunologist bewildered by anti vaccination group's actions https://t.co/OhyljHQaNM — Karen Brown (@RNZhealth) October 2, 2018 An immunologist is bewildered by the actions of an anti-vaccination movement he has likened to organised terrorism. More than 140 complaints were sent to the Advertising Standards Authority about a billboard erected alongside Auckland’s southernContinue Reading

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A "dead" South African woman has been discovered alive — inside a morgue fridge https://t.co/LT6kvonk74 — ABC News (@abcnews) July 3, 2018 A woman in South Africa is being treated in hospital after being found alive inside a morgue fridge. The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue in Gauteng provinceContinue Reading

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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-child-abuse-molecular-scars-victims.html Methylation acts as a “dimmer switch” on genes, affecting the degree to which a particular gene is activated or not. Scientists are increasingly looking at this turning on and turning off of genes, known as epigenetics, because it’s believed to be influenced by external forces—a person’s environment or lifeContinue Reading

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/automatic-you/201803/distinction-bias-why-you-make-terrible-life-choices In comparison mode, we’re pretty good at deciding between qualitative differences. For example, we know that an interesting job is better than a boring one or that being able to walk to work is better than having to suffer driving in rush hour traffic. When I asked you toContinue Reading

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201508/the-psychology-self-deception An ego defense similar to splitting is idealization. Like the positive end of splitting, idealization involves overestimating the positive attributes of a person, object, or idea while underestimating its negative attributes. More fundamentally, it involves the projection of our needs and desires onto that person, object, or idea. AContinue Reading

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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/german-fuel-protest-image/ Since at least as far back as 2017, an image has been widely shared on social media with text indicating that it depicts a protest in which millions of irate Germans abandoned their cars in the street in protest of high fuel prices: However, the people who can beContinue Reading