Published: March 26, 2008
Children who bully tend to have troubled relationships with parents and friends and may continue to bully throughout their teens if those problems are not addressed early, a new study by researchers at York University and Queen’s University shows.
“Focusing on the child alone is not enough. Bullying is a relationship problem. Children who bully are using power and aggression to control others,” says the study’s lead author Debra Pepler, a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University and Senior Associate Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children. “We need to look at their relationships with their parents and with friends who may also bully. [continue reading…]
Published: March 25, 2008
University of Alberta researcher Lauren Brown has found people with depression are at an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Brown’s results discovered the risk of diabetes almost doubled for those who were taking a combination of antidepressants [continue reading…]
Published: March 25, 2008
Everyone has heard of the school bully, but just like the rest of us, bullies grow up and get jobs. A recent post on the New York Times blog generated over 300 posts
Link to this New York Times Video
Published: March 24, 2008
Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to treat Parkinson’s disease in mice. The study’s results are published in the March 23 online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to treat disease in the same subjects from whom the initial cells were derived. While this current work is in animals, it could have future implications as this method may be an effective way to reduce transplant rejection and enhance recovery in other diseases and in other organ systems. [continue reading…]
