Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...guish sounds with background noise and distinguish word sounds (phonemes) under quiet conditions. The tests, with the exception of the initial auditory test, were conducted by Elissa Tolle and Pegauy Santil, 1996 Cornell graduates in human ecology, who were both seniors at the time. When the data were a......teenagers about sex, health and condoms, mum's the word for most American parents. "The core of the problem is that it is harder for adults to talk about sex than substance abuse. Parents don't talk about sex with their children," says Diane Morrison, a University of Washington research associate profess...Training Urged For Mothers Of Children With Cancer
...e perceived threat ofdeath that is embodied in the word "cancer," is not a skill which will have beenlearned by most parents during their previous life experiences," the authorswrite. "Problem-solving skill training to enhance a mother's own coping mighthave a beneficial spillover effect on both her ill a...Clot-Busters As Effective As Surgery To Clear Blockages In Legs
... isoften the first treatment patients receive, but word is justbeginning to spread to all vascular surgeons. "Instead of taking these patients to the operating roomimmediately, we can infuse a thrombolytic agent over a day orso," says Ouriel. "If we do need to operate, it's frequently amuch smaller o...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...hat these reports should not be taken as the final word on the issue. "For the present, the guidelines by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), endorsed by the American Heart Association, offer the most reliable basis for physicians' decisions regardless of the optimal lower limit for LDL ch...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...ty was being scanned, they wereasked to complete a word processing task that required them to thinksemanti...ately and confidently remember whethera particular word had been part of the test. The study also confirms that aperson seems to remember something better w...Cedars-Sinai Medical News Tips
...ncel by sending to the samee-mail address with the word "unsubscribe" entered in the subject field. Topursue any of these story ideas, call 1-800-396-1002. Thank you. DIABETES DRUG AND ACCUTANE BLOCK BREAST CANCER CELL GROWTH Breast cancer cells exposed to a diabetes drug (Troglitazone) and theVitamin A...Dobson Must Quit Denial Of Rationing
...ermine his credibility" if he continues to ban the word from ministerial vocabulary. Professor Klein writes that once the inevitability of rationing is finally accepted "we can get down to the serious business of discussing how to devise the appropriate mechanisms... involved". The author proposes that...Member Of The "Coasters" Making A Real-Life Comeback After Experiencing An Aneurysm Two Years Ago
...ry still occasionally falters when searching for a word or detailbut Marianne and his son, Jonathan, help fill in the blanks. They also recallmuch darker days when Richards would become uncharacteristically agitated,hallucinatory, and subject to uncontrollable urges. Back then, he might jump upand down on...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...s. The children were given five seconds to spell a word before the nextone in the series was delivered. A ...e beginning letters. Both theword spelling and the word generation trials were performed at least twice.The images from the trials revealed that the left he...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...ntences at 16 months, while others might not say a word until they're 28months," she reports. "Usually, this is no cause for concern." Infants enter the world "hard-wired" for language, Hirsh-Pasek says. "Babies arenot simply passive, receptive beings who sit there being cute," she explains."Sure, they're......ike having a dictionary when you want to look up a word and knowthe exact meaning of it." A Century of Trust To celebrate the 100-year milestone, the Centennial Edition is packaged with acomplimentary facsimile of the 192-page First Edition. Comparing Merck's 1899Manual, as it was called, with the new...NHLBI Urges Americans To Take Control Of Their Hypertension
...d limit alcohol intake. To help spread the word about the dangers of uncontrolledhypertension--and what can be done about it--the NHLBI and the NHBPEP have setup a special web site, which can be accessed through the NHLBI home page at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov . They also are offering a var...Hospitalitas, the Latin root for our word hospital, implies a relationship, asharing between the visitor and caregiver. In his new book, Mending Bodies,Saving Souls, medically trained historian Guenter B. Risse traces the evolutionof hospitals from their early mission as humble houses of mer...Immunex Advances CD40 Ligand To Phase II Clinical Trial In People With Metastatic Kidney Cancer
...in women. Renal cell carcinoma (renal is the Latin word for kidney) accounts for about 85%of all kidney tumors. Men are diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma almost twiceas often as women are and it usually occurs between the ages of 50-70 years. CD40L is a protein primarily expressed on the surfac...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
...eir infantsin a toy - a stuffed gorilla - said the word 'gorilla' in a voice withrelatively flat pitch. This raised the possibility that infants, who areknown to react more strongly to speech high in pitch modulation, would notlearn well about the world around them when prompted with speech uttered bydep...False recall in older adults and Alzheimer's linked to attention, not memory, breakdown
..., Blanket, Doze, Slumber, Snore, Nap. Although the word Sleep wasnever presented, research demonstrates th...he study ofmemory function. By applying the simple word recall tests to various groups ofindividuals under various constraints and conditions, researchers a...First woman commanding general for health care in Pacific speaks on Capitol Hill about Tele-Health
...ologyand Medical Research Hui." (Hui is a Hawaiian word meaning partner or group.) "The Hui" is the first and only VA/DOD collaborative partnership that focusessolely on telehealth, clinical research, and technology initiatives wheregeographic and distance boundaries are irrelevant. The primary goal of ...University of Iowa reading test effective at identifying reading problems due to brain injury
...two-sentence paragraphs, each ofwhich contains one word in the second half of the passage that spoils them...d through theitems and cross out the inappropriate word for each passage as quickly aspossible. The score is the number of items the patient completes accur...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
...ation. Speaker-independent systems can recognize a word no matter who or whatpronounces it.No previous spe... system can identify different speakers of thesame word with superhuman acuity. Berger and system co-designer Jim-Shih Liaw, Ph.D., achieved this improvedpe...