Psychiatric Times recently announced the release of its new beta search engine designed for psychiatric physicians and mental health professionals, but it is free to use without registration.  It claims to give the user more authoritative and clinically relevant search results - it does not search by popularity.  One of its most useful features is the [...]

The link between short sleep duration and obesity: We should recommend more sleep to prevent obesity
Soaring levels of obesity might be linked to children sleeping fewer hours at night than they used to, claims a researcher in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (BMJ Specialty Journals).
Dr Shahrad Taheri of the University of Bristol, blames the [...]

Internet and mobile satellite service helps ensure safe sunning, heliotherapy
October 2006 - Excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation is responsible for up to 60 000 deaths a year worldwide, according to a report released this summer by the World Health Organisation. Many of those deaths, however, could be avoided through simple preventive measures such as seeking shade [...]

Mental health researchers at The Australian National University have found that brief Internet-based interventions for depression are not only immediately effective, but have a significant positive long-term benefit that may be as effective as active psychotherapies.
The yet-to-be-published findings by Professors Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon and Dr Kathy Griffiths at the Centre for Mental Health [...]