Archive: 02/08/2017

Fla. officials confirm year's first case of sexually transmitted Zika

Florida health officials have confirmed a case of sexually transmitted Zika in Pinellas County, a first for the state in 2017.

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Know the signs of concussion

(HealthDay)—Concussions have been in the news a lot because of health problems experienced by football players, but you don't have to be a professional athlete to suffer this injury.

Aug 2, 2017

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Gamblers more likely to have suffered childhood traumas, research shows

Men with problem and pathological gambling addictions are more likely to have suffered childhood traumas including physical abuse or witnessing violence in the home, according to new research.

Aug 2, 2017

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Clinicians' intuitions about when terminally ill patients will die are often inaccurate

A simple method, routinely used by clinicians to help identify patients who may be approaching their last year of life, is frequently inaccurate, according to a new study led by UCL researchers and funded by Marie Curie.

Aug 2, 2017

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Scientists uncover the role of spindle matrix proteins in NSC reactivation

A multicentre research team led by Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS)'s Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme has uncovered that spindle matrix proteins can play an intrinsic role in regulating neural stem cell ...

Aug 2, 2017

Engineers harness the power of 3-D printing to help train surgeons, shorten surgery times

A team of engineers and pediatric orthopedic surgeons are using 3D printing to help train surgeons and shorten surgeries for the most common hip disorder found in children ages 9 to 16. In a recent study, researchers showed ...

Aug 2, 2017

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Food fight: Children's temperaments help predict dinnertime struggles

Most toddlers go through bouts of picky eating, but infants with more inhibited personalities are more likely to turn up their nose at new foods, according to researchers.

Aug 2, 2017

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Fighting dehydration with wearables and big data

Dehydration is one of the most common causes of death among young children in the developing world – particularly during the hot summer months. ETH Professor Walter Karlen and his team of researchers have developed an inexpensive ...

Aug 2, 2017

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If a brain can be caught lying, should we admit that evidence to court? Here's what legal experts think

A man is charged with stealing a very distinctive blue diamond. The man claims never to have seen the diamond before. An expert is called to testify whether the brain responses exhibited by this man indicate he has seen the ...

Aug 2, 2017

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Bangladesh separates conjoined twins in rare surgery

Ten-month-old Bangladeshi siamese twins were recovering in hospital Wednesday after what surgeons hailed as the country's "groundbreaking" first successful separation operation on conjoined siblings.

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