Archive: 29/07/2015

Toss the flash cards: child expert urges intuitive parenting

Parents should lose the flash cards, learning apps and other educational gadgets and strategies de jour, advises Stephen Camarata, a child development researcher and professor who thinks they need to rediscover their inner ...

Jul 29, 2015

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Human fetal tissue long used for variety of medical studies

Controversy over a leading U.S. reproductive health group supplying fetal tissue for research has focused attention on a little-discussed aspect of science.

Jul 29, 2015

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Immigrants, poor fish for their dinner, unaware of mercury

It's midday and the white bucket balanced on the rocky shore at Mountha Uppasay's feet holds five or six white bass, moving sluggishly in the water she scooped from the Des Moines River.

Jul 29, 2015

Then & Now: Medicare and Medicaid turn 50

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, roughly half of Americans 65 and older had no health insurance.

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'Dialing for Diabetes Control' helps urban adults lower blood sugar

Periodic telephone counseling can be a highly effective, low-cost tool for lowering blood-sugar levels in minority, urban adults with uncontrolled diabetes. The findings are the result of a clinical trial led by researchers ...

Jul 29, 2015

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