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A new study shows that even slight stress and anxiety can substantially worsen a person's allergic reaction to some routine allergens. Moreover, the added impact of stress and anxiety seem to linger, causing the second day of a stressed person's allergy attack to be much worse.

In metropolitan China, high School students' self-esteem depends more on good relations with peers than parents, a new UC Davis study shows. But the opposite is true for younger adolescents and young adults: Both base their self-esteem more on good relations with parents.

Washington, August 17 : Students who score high on measures of courage, empathy and honesty are less likely than others to have cheated in the past, and to intend to cheat in the future, according to a study at one Ohio university.

A global study led by Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, shows that the number of 'dead zones' - areas of seafloor with too little oxygen for most marine life - has increased by a third between 1995 and 2007.

UroToday.com - The practice of lymphadenectomy during radical cystectomy for muscle invasive bladder cancer is not standardized. There is a wide variation in the number of nodes retrieved. Recent studies suggest that both the number of nodes removed and the method of submission of lymph node specimens affect the treatment outcome.

Responding to the Saga study which shows that people are underestimating the cost of care, Lizzie McLennan, Senior Policy Officer for Social Care at Help the Aged, says: 'The full reality of care on the ground is clearly misunderstood - by the government, older people and their families. We can't afford to live in a society where it is just assumed that families will step in to cover the gaps in paying for care for older people.

(American Psychological Association) Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers' dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve -- attributes that have proven useful not only to students but to surgeons, according to research discussed Sunday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

UroToday.com - In the September, 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Hiroyoshi Suzuki and Japanese collaborators reported that following maximum androgen blockade (MAB) for prostate cancer (CaP), the use of alternative nonsteroidal antiandrogens is effective for treating relapsed disease. A total of 232 CaP patients treated with MAB and disease progression made up the study cohort. Upon disease relapse they were treated with an alternative antiandrogen.

New research indicates that giving patients a continuous low dose of an immune system booster, a method known as metronomic dosing, as part of a therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine strategy is safe and produces similar immune responses and fewer side effects than the more common dosing method, which is not well tolerated by many patients. This study, led by researchers at that National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of health, was published in the Aug. 15, 2008, issue of Clinical Cancer Research.