The majority of preschool children who stutter will grow out of it, but a wait-and-see approach can harm those who ultimately don't recover and set them back academically and socially, say Purdue University speech experts. "The recovery rate is high, about 50 percent for 4- and 5-year olds who...
Strawberry lovers rejoice: the days of unpacking your luscious berries from the refrigerator only to find them sprouting wispy goatees of mold may be numbered.
A research team from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Components and Health Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., and Sensor...
Finding could reduce need for blood donations, speed up research on therapies to treat diseases A study led by Boston University School of Medicine has identified a novel approach to create an unlimited number of human red blood cells and platelets in vitro. In collaboration with Boston...
Certara™, a leading provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through drug development, announced that its Pharsight Consulting Services has developed a mathematical model of tumor growth inhibition, which when...
The tick-borne Lone Star virus has been conclusively identified as part of a family of other tick-borne viruses called bunyaviruses, which often cause fever, respiratory problems and bleeding, according to new research led by scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF). What made the work especially...
in spite of my Christian beliefs, I sometimes feel compelled to honor the Greek Gods of my ancestors (even CS Lewis felt compelled to pray to Apollo at his temple when he was in Greece (said in one of his letters).
but how do you approach Ares? how do you view the God of war? is he a warrior...
OK i am in the Army National Guard SMP program were i go to college while in ROTC, and just got out of basic training, but over the summer i saw this girl at the local state fair before i shipped to basic, and i also saw her with two other girls i knew of from high school in which i went to...
"Addiction is a brain disease" was the title of an editorial in the renowned journal Science 15 years ago. The author argued that recognising addiction as a disorder of the brain can impact society´s overall health and social policy strategies and help diminish the health and social costs...
In a new genetic study, researchers said they may have found a way to cut the cost of genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancers from $3000 to $400. Three teams of infertility scientists in New York and Austria collaborated to study gene mutations that increase a woman's likelihood of...
The cost of sequencing the entire human genome, or exome - the regions of the genome that are translated into proteins that affect cell behavior - has decreased significantly, to the point where the cost of looking at the majority of a patient's genomic data may be less expensive than...
A new study published online in Nature Medicine, led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes the discovery of a novel drug combination aimed at a subset of melanoma patients who currently have no effective therapeutic options. Melanoma patients have...
Canada needs a comprehensive approach to reduce elder abuse that includes financial supports and programs for seniors and their caregivers, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). In Canada, an estimated 4% of seniors - 200 000 to 500 000 people - experience some form...
Rather than trying to kill bacteria outright with drugs, Universite de Montreal researchers have discovered a way to disarm bacteria that may allow the body's own defense mechanisms to destroy them. "To understand this strategy one could imagine harmful bacteria being like Darth Vader, and the...
A surgical patient safety program that combines three components - accurate outcome measurement, support of hospital leadership, and engaged frontline providers - reduces surgical site infections (SSIs) by 33 percent in patients who undergo colorectal procedures, according to a new study...
At a time when many prominent programs are hiring companies to monitor their players' use of social media or banning players from posting on Twitter or Facebook altogether, Tennessee is taking the opposite approach.
Earlier this month, associate media relations director Tom Satkowiak added...
Foster kids who receive mentoring and training in skills such as anger management, healthy communication, and problem solving are less likely to move foster homes or to be placed in a residential treatment center, and more likely to reunify with their biological families, according to a study by...
In the Nature scientific journal Dr. Gregor Reid, Director of the Canadian R&D Centre for Probiotics at Lawson Health Research Institute and a scientist at Western University, calls for a Category Tree system to be implemented in the United States and Europe to better inform consumers about...
Currently more than 10% of preschoolers in the U.S. are obese and effective strategies that target pregnancy, infancy, and toddlers are urgently needed to stop the progression of the childhood obesity epidemic, as proposed in an article in Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann...
As the bearer of an idea of a new product for a factory on wich we are not member, and after protecting the idea. How to propose the idea to plant manager and what procedures to expect.