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Do residents in cardiology need more training to make them talk about sex?

The editorial comment of last December’s issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal pointed to our paper in that same issue, in which Dutch cardiologists’ knowledge about the effects of cardiovascular agents on sexual function was evaluated (1, 2). Our previous work had already shown that 42 % of cardiologists indicated a need for training to increase their knowledge about sexual function in patien...

Hypertension guidelines: criteria that might make them more clinically useful.

Cardiovascular disease prevention depends on reduction of risk factors, including hypertension. Guidelines designed to improve management of hypertension are widely available. Their purpose is to assemble the available data from basic biomedical science, epidemiology, and clinical science in an accessible form with which physicians and patients can make reasoned decisions for individual cases. ...

Will Open Government make Canada's health agencies more transparent?

Violent video games stress people out and make them more aggressive.

It is well known that violent video games increase aggression, and that stress increases aggression. Many violent video games can be stressful because enemies are trying to kill players. The present study investigates whether violent games increase aggression by inducing stress in players. Stress was measured using cardiac coherence, defined as the synchronization of the rhythm of breathing to ...

How girls and boys expect disclosure about problems will make them feel: implications for friendships.

Although girls disclose to friends about problems more than boys, little is known about processes underlying this sex difference. Four studies (Ns = 526, 567, 769, 154) tested whether middle childhood to mid-adolescent girls and boys (ranging from 8 to 17 years old) differ in how they expect that talking about problems would make them feel. Girls endorsed positive expectations (e.g., expecting ...