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- Public urged to take precautions against West Nile Virus
- Older adults not prepared to ensure food safety during power outages
- Babies' ability to detect complex rules in language outshines that of adults, research suggests
- Metabolic engineer synthesizes key breast milk ingredient: Sugar in human milk may protect babies from pathogens
- Bad strep throat? It's probably not strep, most likely viral
- Do social networking web sites make you fat?
| Public urged to take precautions against West Nile Virus Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT West Nile virus (WNV) has become endemic in North America with cases in 2012 exceeding that of any other year. Health care professionals and the public need to be on alert for WNV, medical researchers say.  |
| Older adults not prepared to ensure food safety during power outages Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:34 PM PDT In the wake of Hurricane Isaac, which left millions without power, a new study highlights that many older adults are not equipped to keep food safe during an extended power outage.  |
| Babies' ability to detect complex rules in language outshines that of adults, research suggests Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:16 PM PDT New research examining auditory mechanisms of language learning in babies has revealed that infants as young as three months of age are able to automatically detect and learn complex dependencies between syllables in spoken language. By contrast, adults only recognized the same dependencies when asked to actively search for them. The study also highlights the important role of basic pitch discrimination abilities for early language development.  |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:34 AM PDT A microbial engineer has synthesized a sugar in human milk that is thought to protect babies from pathogens. That's important because 2FL, the shorthand scientists use to describe this human milk oligosaccharide, has not been added to infant formula because HMOs are incredibly expensive.  |
| Bad strep throat? It's probably not strep, most likely viral Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT Although people often say they have "strep" throat, most sore throats actually are caused by a virus, not streptococcus bacteria, and shouldn't be treated with antibiotics, suggest new guidelines. Antibiotics are ineffective against viruses.  |
| Do social networking web sites make you fat? Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:23 AM PDT Time spent on social networking sites comes at the expense of other activities -- including physical activity, new research has revealed.  |
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