Pointing fingers, forgetting the needy
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For a few grave weeks after the election in November, it looked as if professional teeth-gnashers like the American Family Association or Concerned Women for America would have little meat to sate their perpetual indignation this holiday season.
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Among health-care workers and relatives of the terminally ill, tales of patients who somehow &quot;held on&quot; past the holidays or birthdays are common.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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It may soon no longer be considered quite so gauche, in the midst of a restaurant meal, to reach into one&#39;s pocket or purse for a cell phone.
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A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the worldâs poor.
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By Sara Kennedy, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec.
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The best strategies for coping with electronic overload.
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Aging may not be all in the mind, but negative self-image and stereotypes have a significant impact on age-related symptoms of frailty and memory loss.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 13--Some folks get satisfaction in refusing to help people who refused to help them in an hour or need.
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb.
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In groups, people unconsciously tend to mimic the demeanor of those around them.
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CAMBRIDGE -- We've all been there. Locking horns with a colleague who focuses on the nitty-gritty instead of the big picture, or who likes abstract ideas but ignores details. Impatient with a friend who speaks painfully slowly, or who talks too quickly and too much. Frustrated with a spouse who is overly sensitive, or who can be blunt and unemotional.
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Gifts that will disappear, but not because they have been regifted.
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Millions of boomers are caring for parents afflicted with a disease that steals minds and memories. What life is like when your mother doesn't know you, or her own name.
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Try as you like, it's hard to erase traces of a traumatic past.
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How many people have gone home after a blindingly stressful day and realise theyâve forgotten some important event or errand? Well, now at least thereâsa scientific explanation for the oversight: stress makes you forgetful.
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.