"People with a positiveemotionalstyle may have different immune responses to the virus," explained lead studyauthorDrSheldonCohenof Carnegie MellonUniversityin Pittsburgh.
"Nurses spend a third of their time in patient care and two-thirds of their time hunting, documenting and clarifying, " says Kenagy, who has studied hospitals in Massachusetts and Pittsburgh as part of an experiment to bring industrial-style management principles to health care.
Pittsburgh-based architect Lewko Korzeniwsky recently finished turning the traditional, Colonial-style floor plan of an old 4, 600-square-foot French Normandy mansion into an open, contemporary interior, reducing the number of bedrooms to four from six and introducing floor-to-ceiling glass windows and recessed lighting.