Archive for October, 2008
Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients who are being treated for cancer. But can this common anti-depressant help to fight cancer itself?
Dr. Dan Peer of the Department of Cell Research and Immunology at Tel Aviv University is proving that it can. A study he and his colleagues recently completed Read the rest of this entry »
How children are affected by out-of-home care depends not only on the qualities of their teacher and the classroom, but also on the nature of the children’s relationship with their caregivers. That’s the finding of a new study on the level of the stress hormone cortisol in children in full-day child care.
Cortisol, the primary stress Read the rest of this entry »