Archive: 19/02/2014
Puerto Rico to build $196M cancer treatment center
Puerto Rico is building a $196 million cancer treatment center that will provide services including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.
Feb 19, 2014
Couples, pay attention to your relationship work ethic
Is a date with your partner as important to you as a meeting at work? A University of Illinois study recommends that couples develop a relationship work ethic that rivals—or at least equals—their professional work ethic.
Feb 19, 2014
Genetics linked to children viewing high amounts of violent media
The lifelong debate of nature versus nurture continues—this time in what your children watch. A recent paper published in the Journal of Communication found that a specific variation of the serotonin-transporter gene was ...
Feb 19, 2014
Researchers study impact of head movement on fMRI data
Kessler Foundation researchers have shown that discarding data from subjects with multiple sclerosis (MS) who exhibit head movement during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may bias sampling away from subjects ...
Feb 19, 2014
Which asthma drugs, dosages work best for African Americans?
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to determine what combination and dosages of asthma medications works best to manage asthma in African Americans, who suffer ...
Feb 19, 2014
Regardless of exercise, too much sedentary time is linked to major disability after 60
If you're 60 and older, every additional hour a day you spend sitting is linked to doubling the risk of being disabled—regardless of how much moderate exercise you get, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Feb 19, 2014