Findings could keep allergies in check
Fresh insight into infection could improve scientists’ understanding of allergies and inform new treatments.
Aug 7, 2012
Archive: 07/08/2012
Time to get moving: Researcher recommends physical activity be part of school day, after-school programs
(Medical Xpress) -- Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, do you know if physical activity will be a big part of your child's school day? What about after school and on weekends -- is your child getting enough physical ...
Aug 7, 2012
Greater working memory capacity benefits analytic, but not creative, problem-solving
(Medical Xpress) -- Psychological scientists have long known that the amount of information we can actively hold in mind at any given time – known as working memory – is limited. Our working memory capacity reflects ...
Aug 7, 2012
A new approach to improving cancer chemotherapy
(Medical Xpress) -- Chemotherapy kills tumor cells, but it also wreaks havoc on the rest of the body. A team of researchers led by Igor Roninson of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy just reported the discovery of a new ...
Aug 7, 2012
Reduce esophageal cancer danger by knowing risk factors
(Medical Xpress) -- As the American obesity epidemic has increased the past two decades, so has the rate of esophageal cancers. Clinician-scientists affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) Cancer Institute say enhanced ...
Aug 7, 2012
Kids' language often misleads in testimony
(Medical Xpress) -- Children often use language differently than adults when referring to a person or thing, which can result in misleading testimony, according to a new Cornell study.
Aug 7, 2012
Weekend hospital stays prove more deadly than other times for older people with head trauma
(Medical Xpress) -- A Johns Hopkins review of more than 38,000 patient records finds that older adults who sustain substantial head trauma over a weekend are significantly more likely to die from their injuries than those ...
Aug 7, 2012
Teen behavior problems linked to childhood stress
(Medical Xpress) -- Such behavior problems in adolescence as aggression and delinquency are linked to chronic stress in early childhood, which interferes with children's development of self-control, reports a Cornell study ...
Aug 7, 2012
