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- Both maternal and paternal age linked to autism
- Night, weekend delivery OK for babies with birth defects
- High school students test best with 7 hours of sleep at night
- Controlling parents more likely to have delinquent children
- Unpicking HIV's 'invisibility cloak'
- Tell me how you are, and I know how long you will live
- Drug quickly reverses Alzheimer's symptoms in mice
| Both maternal and paternal age linked to autism Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:34 AM PST Older maternal and paternal age are jointly associated with having a child with autism, according to a recent study.  |
| Night, weekend delivery OK for babies with birth defects Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST Weekday delivery is no better than night/weekend delivery for infants with birth defects, according to a new study. Researchers found that infants with birth defects that were delivered at night or over the weekend fared just as well as those delivered on a weekday -- they stayed at the hospital for the same amount of time, were admitted to the NICU at the same rate, and were given antibiotics or got help breathing just as often.  |
| High school students test best with 7 hours of sleep at night Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:05 AM PST New research finds that 16- to 18-year-olds perform better academically when they shave about two hours off what current guidelines prescribe.  |
| Controlling parents more likely to have delinquent children Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:59 AM PST Authoritarian parents whose child-rearing style can be summed up as "it's my way or the highway" are more likely to raise disrespectful, delinquent children who do not see them as legitimate authority figures than authoritative parents who listen to their children and gain their respect and trust, according to new research.  |
| Unpicking HIV's 'invisibility cloak' Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:47 AM PST Drug researchers hunting for alternative ways to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections may soon have a novel target -- its camouflage coat. HIV hides inside a cloak unusually rich in a sugar called mannose, which it uses to slip past the immune system before infecting its host's cells. Recently, however, biochemists discovered a family of chemical compounds that stick strongly to mannose. Understanding how this mechanism works could reveal a way to make drugs adhere to and kill HIV.  |
| Tell me how you are, and I know how long you will live Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:28 PM PST The way people rate their health determines their probability of survival in the following decades. Researchers have demonstrated that for ratings ranging from "excellent," "good," "fair," and "poor" to "very poor," the risk of mortality increases steadily – independently of such known risk factors as smoking, low education levels or pre-existing diseases.  |
| Drug quickly reverses Alzheimer's symptoms in mice Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:40 AM PST Neuroscientists have made a dramatic breakthrough in their efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. The use of a drug appears to quickly reverse the pathological, cognitive and memory deficits caused by the onset of Alzheimer's in mice.  |
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