Baboon healing ability linked to social status

Source: Earthtimes.org

In many species, including our own, low social status has been known to affect immune responses and cause poor condition and the onset of old age, with high status having its own effects. Over 27 years, from 1982 ...
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Septic Shock — Evaluating Another Failed Treatment

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

Sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock are progressively severe stages of the host's systemic inflammatory response to infection.1 The latter stages carry increasing rates of end-organ failure and death. The spectrum of the sepsis syndrome r ...
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Baboon Study Shows Why High Social Status Boosts Health

Source: Time Magazine

Being at the bottom of the social ladder is generally a predictor of bad health: research shows that poor people die sooner and have more disease than rich people, even when you account for factors like lack of access to health care. But the data on soci ...
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Biological Level of Analysis

Source: OpPapers.com

Outline principles that define the biological level of analysis (for example, patterns of behavior can be inherited; animal research may inform our understanding of human behavior; cognitions, emotions and behaviors are products of the anato ...
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