Archive: 10/02/2016

UPMC 'personalizes' medications for heart patients through innovative gene testing

Patients who go to UPMC Presbyterian for heart catheterization and who receive a stent to treat clogged arteries are now being screened with a simple blood test to determine if they have a gene variant that makes them less ...

Feb 10, 2016

New study reveals that prelinguistic infants can categorize colors

A joint group of researchers from Chuo University, Japan Women's University and Tohoku University has revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before ...

Feb 10, 2016

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Study offers treatment hope for sleep disordered breathing

People with a condition that causes them to stop breathing in their sleep could be helped by new research.

Feb 10, 2016

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Babies have a grasp of the physics of liquids

We are born with a basic grasp of physics, just enough not to be surprised when we interact with objects. Scientists discovered this in the past two decades. What they did not know yet was that, as early as five months of ...

Feb 10, 2016

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Attention problems persist in childhood leukemia survivors treated with chemotherapy alone

Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients treated with chemotherapy alone remain at risk for attention and learning problems that persist after treatment ends, according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...

Feb 10, 2016

Alcohol-impaired driving crimes spike immediately after drinking age

A new study led by a Northern Medical Program (NMP) researcher shows that alcohol-impaired driving crimes spike immediately after the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) is reached, indicating that minimum legal drinking age ...

Feb 10, 2016