Life Sciences
New life sciences findings from University of North Carolina described
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 18th, 2009
"Noticing medical symptoms can cause one to search for explanatory labels such as ''ate bad food'' or even ''exposed to anthrax,'' and perhaps these labels may cause new symptom reports. The present study examined whether there is empirical support for this symptom-label ''symmetry rule.'' We interviewed veterans (N = 362) from the Gulf War Registry in 1995 and 2002 about their medical symptoms and about their exposure to war-related hazards and stressors," scientists in the United States report.
"Health symptom reports were strongly correlated between the two time periods and showed relatively stable mean levels, whereas recall of war-related exposures was notably...
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