Blue or green? United Kingdom split over color of swatch
A survey from a Scottish eye care company could be sparking a color controversy similar to last year's debate over the color of a dress.
Jun 22, 2016
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Childhood-onset epilepsy has long-term effects on patients' health and social status
Children and adolescents with epilepsy experience significant long-term socioeconomic consequences and higher personal health care costs. The findings come from a study that followed young epilepsy patients until 30 years ...
Jun 22, 2016
Novel combination therapy shows strong response in phase 1 trial
A phase 1 clinical trial testing a novel combination therapy developed by scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center slowed the growth of cancer in the majority of trial participants, which were patients with advanced solid tumors. ...
Jun 22, 2016
Impulsive children raised in caring families drink less during adolescence
Years of research have shown that impulsivity in childhood is among the individual vulnerabilities leading to substance abuse, delinquency, as well as aggressive and antisocial behavior in adolescence and adulthood. Yet researchers ...
Jun 22, 2016
One-third of hospitals in developing world lack running water
A study of 430 hospitals in the developing world found that more than one-third lacked running water, a deficiency that can lead to unsanitary conditions for patients in general and dangerous conditions for those who need ...
Jun 22, 2016
Treatment of humans and pigs may reduce endemic tapeworm infection
The transmission of Taenia solium, a pork tapeworm species that infects humans and causes late-onset seizures and epilepsy, can be stopped on a population-wide level with mass treatments of both pigs and humans, researchers ...
Jun 22, 2016
Psychiatric diagnostic tools may not be valid for African Americans
Depression in African Americans, according to Sirry Alang, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Lehigh University, is expressed in ways that are inconsistent with symptoms of depression laid out in the Diagnostic ...
Jun 22, 2016
