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Sunday, February 26, 2012

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Training parents is good medicine for children with autism behavior problems, study suggests
Significant state-by-state differences in black, white life expectancy
Advancing personalized medicine: Tailoring drugs to fit a patient's genetic predisposition
Combined use of recommended heart failure therapies significantly boosts survival odds, study suggests

Training parents is good medicine for children with autism behavior problems, study suggests

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

Children with autism spectrum disorders who also have serious behavioral problems responded better to medication combined with training for their parents than to treatment with medication alone, researchers report.

Significant state-by-state differences in black, white life expectancy

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

A group of researchers tracing disparities in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the US has found that white males live about 7 years longer on average than African American men and that white women live more than 5 years longer than their black counterparts.

Advancing personalized medicine: Tailoring drugs to fit a patient's genetic predisposition

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:27 PM PST

Researchers are examining how drugs can be matched to a patient's genetic information through the study of single nucleotide polymorphisms.

Combined use of recommended heart failure therapies significantly boosts survival odds, study suggests

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:42 AM PST

A new study has found that a combination of several key guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure treatment resulted in an improvement of up to 90 percent in the odds of survival over two years.

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European Neanderthals were on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of modern humans
Training parents is good medicine for children with autism behavior problems, study suggests
Significant state-by-state differences in black, white life expectancy
Advancing personalized medicine: Tailoring drugs to fit a patient's genetic predisposition
Liquid water diffusion at molecular level

European Neanderthals were on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of modern humans

Posted: 25 Feb 2012 08:09 AM PST

Most Neanderthals in Europe died off around 50,000 years ago, new research suggests. The previously held view of a Europe populated by a stable Neanderthal population for hundreds of thousands of years up until modern humans arrived must therefore be revised, researchers say.

Training parents is good medicine for children with autism behavior problems, study suggests

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

Significant state-by-state differences in black, white life expectancy

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

Advancing personalized medicine: Tailoring drugs to fit a patient's genetic predisposition

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:27 PM PST

Researchers are examining how drugs can be matched to a patient's genetic information through the study of single nucleotide polymorphisms.

Liquid water diffusion at molecular level

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:07 AM PST

Researchers have described for the first time the diffusion of liquid water through nanochannels in molecular terms; nanochannels are extremely tiny channels with a diameter of 1-100 nanometers that scientists use to study the behavior of molecules. This study might have an important impact on water desalinization and filtration methods. The introduction of graphene membranes and carbon nanolayers will revolutionize water desalinization and filtration processes, as water diffuses rapidly through these materials when their pores are 1nm in diameter.

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European Neanderthals were on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of modern humans

Posted: 25 Feb 2012 08:09 AM PST

For fish, fear smells like sugar

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST

When one fish gets injured, the rest of the school takes off in fear, tipped off by a mysterious substance known as "Schreckstoff" (meaning "scary stuff" in German). Now, researchers have figured out what that scary stuff is really made of.

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For fish, fear smells like sugar

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST

You can't do the math without the words: Amazonian tribe lacks words for numbers

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:40 AM PST

An anthropological linguist has shown that the language of the Piraha, an Amazonian tribe, lacks number words and as a result the people have a difficult time performing common quantitative tasks. The findings add new insight to the way people acquire knowledge, perception and reasoning. The study highlights the unique insight we gain about people by studying indigenous languages.