Archive: 20/07/2015
Adolescent friendship study confirms 'birds of a feather flock together—stay together'
No one likes to lose a friend, especially adolescents. But why do friendships end? Researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University sought to answer this question with a study examining ...
Jul 20, 2015
Study shows promise of precision medicine for most common type of lymphoma
A clinical trial has shown that patients with a specific molecular subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are more likely to respond to the drug ibrutinib (Imbruvica) than patients with another molecular subtype ...
Jul 20, 2015
Discovered a cause of mental retardation and autism
The term intellectual disability covers a large number of clinical entities, some with known cause and others of uncertain origin. For example Down syndrome is due to an extra copy of chromosome 21 and Rett syndrome is in ...
Jul 20, 2015
Child's home address predicts hospitalization risk for common respiratory diseases
Children who require hospitalization for several common respiratory illnesses tend to live in inner-city neighborhoods with less than optimal socioeconomic conditions, according to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ...
Jul 20, 2015
New study sheds new light on mind-brain relationship
A new Dartmouth study sheds light on how the mind and brain work together to visualize the world.
Jul 20, 2015
Differences in brain structure development may explain test score gap for poor children
Low-income children had atypical structural brain development and lower standardized test scores, with as much as an estimated 20 percent in the achievement gap explained by development lags in the frontal and temporal lobes ...
Jul 20, 2015
Patients' own genetically altered immune cells show promise in fighting blood cancer
July 20, 2015. In recent years, immunotherapy has emerged as a promising treatment for certain cancers. Now this strategy, which uses patients' own immune cells, genetically engineered to target tumors, has shown significant ...
Jul 20, 2015