"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. "


Posts tagged with 'allergy'

Recent research: articles from May journals

3rd June 2010

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 14,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: mind-body & body-mind effects for cancer, allergy, dementia, & mental health

18th December 2008

Here are five studies on the loose theme of how the mind affects the body, and the body affects the mind ... and that the distinction between mind and body is pretty arbitrary anyway. Using meta-analysis, Chida & colleagues highlight considerable evidence suggesting that stress-related psychosocial factors have an adverse …