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    • How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Change Science2013-03-25
      Jeff Warren | January 2013 – Issue 4 | In March of 2012, myself and twenty other “adept” meditators participated in an experiment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The experiment was a collaboration between a young Harvard neuroscientist named David Vago and a Buddhist scholar and mindfulness meditation teacher named Shinzen Young. Over a period of one week, all twenty of us meditated in a makeshift retreat space inside the functional imaging laboratory. On a couple of the afternoons, we completed various behavioral and psychological tests. [...]
    • Enlightenment: Is Science Ready to Take it Seriously?2013-03-25
      Jeff Warren | November 2012 – Issue 3 I’m not given to making grand predictions, but in this case I can’t resist: the very real spiritual transformation at the heart of mysticism is about to explode into the secular mainstream, and the consequences may just revolutionize our scientific understanding of the mind. Yowzer! No doubt the reader’s New Age flapdoodle-detector is now shrieking. Bear with me. Let’s first get the tricky business of defining enlightenment out of the way. For expediency’s sake, I’ll define enlightenment as a complex and multi-faceted process by which [...]
    • Type 1 Diabetes Puts Strains on Marriage2013-03-25
      Miriam E. Tucker Mar 13, 2013 Fears about hypoglycemia and about future complications are major issues for married couples in which one partner has type 1 diabetes, a small focus group study found. The findings were published online March 8 in Diabetes Care by Paula M. Trief, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and professor of medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, and colleagues. The qualitative study was conducted in 4 focus group sessions, 2 with 16 adult type 1 diabetic patients and 2 with 14 [...]
    • Mediterranean Diet: Better, Not Best?2013-03-25
      Gayl J. Canfield, PhD, RD DisclosuresMar 19, 2013 Mediterranean High-Fat Dairy May Increase Risk for Breast Cancer Death Nick Mulcahy Mar 15, 2013 The type of dairy product that women with breast cancer consume could be an important lifestyle choice. In a new observational study, high-fat dairy intake was linked to breast-cancer-specific outcome. Specifically, consuming at least half a serving of high-fat dairy per day increased the risk of dying from the disease. COnsuming low-fat dairy, however, was unrelated to recurrence or survival. This is the first-ever study to assess the association between low- and high-fat dairy [...]
    • Simulated Night Vision Goggle Wear and Colored Aftereffects2013-03-25
      Jeffery K. Hovis; Nicolas Pilecki From the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Canada. Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Jeffrey K. Hovis, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1; jhovis@uwaterloo.ca. Hovis JK, Pilecki N. Simulated night vision goggle wear and colored aftereffects. Aviat Space Environ Med 2013; 84:206–11. Background: Surveys of military pilots report that between 1.6% and 65% of the respondents experienced altered color vision after night vision goggle (NVG) wear. For the majority of these pilots, the aftereffect was [...]
    • Particulate Deposition in the Human Lung Under Lunar Habitat Conditions2013-03-25
      Chantal Darquenne; G. Kim Prisk From the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA. Address reprint requests and correspondence to: Chantal Darquenne, Ph.D., Dept. Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, mail code 0623A, La Jolla, CA 92093-0623; cdarquenne@ucsd.edu. Darquenne C, Prisk GK. Particulate deposition in the human lung under lunar habitat conditions. Aviat Space Environ Med 2013; 84:190–5. Introduction: Lunar dust may be a toxic challenge to astronauts. While deposition in reduced gravity is less than in normal gravity (1 G), reduced gravitational sedimentation causes particles to penetrate deeper [...]
    • Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, May 12-16, 2013 | Chicago, IL2013-03-25
      Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association May 12-16, 2013 | Chicago, IL The 84th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association will be held May 12-16, 2013, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago, Illinois. Five days on intensive learning through Lectures, seminars, panels, poster presentations, workshops, film reports, and technical and scientific exhibits present data on the latest results of clinical and research studies.
    • The United States and Canada Academy of Pathology, March 2-8, 2013 | Baltimore, MD2013-03-25
      The United States and Canada Academy of Pathology March 2-8, 2013 | Baltimore, MD. Join us for the 102nd USCAP Annual Meeting being held in Baltimore, Maryland, March 2-8, 2013 at the Baltimore Convention Center. The comprehensive program is structured to meet the scientific and utilitarian needs of students of disease. The Pathology Community is invited for 7 day conference and symposium. Decision makers in the field of pathology and the related specialties, of toxicology, oncology, and immunology from hospitals, private laboratories, and the government in attendance.