Archive: 29/09/2015
Home-based counselling strategies alone may not improve neonatal survival in rural Africa
Implementing a home-based volunteer counselling strategy during pregnancy and the first few days of an infant's life in rural Africa may not be enough to improve neonatal survival, despite improvements in childbirth in health ...
Sep 29, 2015
'Housing First' approach for homeless people doesn't help obesity
The "Housing First" approach of giving homeless people with mental illness a place to live without any preconditions such as sobriety or enrollment in a psychiatric treatment program has many benefits. But losing weight isn't ...
Sep 29, 2015
Relationship between sympathy, helping others could provide clues to development of altruism
Developmental psychologists long have debated whether individuals volunteer and help others because they are sympathetic or whether they are sympathetic because they are prosocial. Now, new research from the University of ...
Sep 29, 2015
The genetics of intelligence: Ethics and the conduct of trustworthy research
With the advent of new genomic sequencing technologies, researchers around the world are working to identify genetic variants that help explain differences in intelligence. Can such findings be used to improve education for ...
Sep 29, 2015