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• Contact lens discomfort: What is it, why does it occur, how can it be treated?
• Low vitamin D levels raise anemia risk in children
• Anthropologist studies the evolutionary benefit of human personality traits
• Parental perceptions are preventing HPV vaccination success
• Controlling triggers of age-related inflammation could extend 'healthspan'
• Hair regeneration method is first to induce new human hair growth
• Parents want e-mail consults with doctors, but don’t want to pay for them
• Learning new skills keeps an aging mind sharp
• Personal, social concerns motivate organic food buyers
• Fiction reading as medicine
• Excessive alcohol consumption increases progression of atherosclerosis, risk of stroke
• Getting ready for Generation-C: Creative consumers who modify electronics
• Tip-of-the-tongue moments may be benign
• Extended music education increases quality of school life

Contact lens discomfort: What is it, why does it occur, how can it be treated? Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:58 PM PDT Contact lens discomfort may be the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction with, and discontinuation of, contact lens wear throughout the world -- but there is little agreement among vision researchers and eye care professionals about how to define and manage its causes.

Low vitamin D levels raise anemia risk in children Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT Low levels of the "sunshine" vitamin D appear to increase a child's risk of anemia, according to new research. The study is believed to be the first one to extensively explore the link between the two conditions in children.

Anthropologist studies the evolutionary benefit of human personality traits Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:32 PM PDT Bold and outgoing or shy and retiring -- while many people can shift from one to the other as circumstances warrant, in general they lean toward one disposition or the other. And that inclination changes little over the course of their lives.

Parental perceptions are preventing HPV vaccination success Posted: 21 Oct 2013 11:33 AM PDT Experts in pediatrics say that parental perceptions pose a major barrier to acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination — and that many of those perceptions are wrong.

Controlling triggers of age-related inflammation could extend 'healthspan' Posted: 21 Oct 2013 08:57 AM PDT Inflammation is the common denominator of many chronic age-related diseases such as arthritis, gout, Alzheimer's, and diabetes. But according to a study, even in the absence of a disease, inflammation can lead to serious loss of function throughout the body, reducing healthspan -- that portion of our lives spent relatively free of serious illness and disability.

Hair regeneration method is first to induce new human hair growth Posted: 21 Oct 2013 07:42 AM PDT Researchers have devised a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth, rather than simply redistribute hair from one part of the scalp to another. The approach could significantly expand the use of hair transplantation to women with hair loss, who tend to have insufficient donor hair, as well as to men in early stages of baldness.

Parents want e-mail consults with doctors, but don’t want to pay for them Posted: 21 Oct 2013 07:37 AM PDT Most parents would love to get an e-mail response from their kids' health care provider for a minor illness rather than making an office visit, but about half say that online consultation should be free.

Learning new skills keeps an aging mind sharp Posted: 21 Oct 2013 06:50 AM PDT Older adults are often encouraged to stay active and engaged to keep their minds sharp, that they have to "use it or lose it." But new research indicates that only certain activities -- learning a mentally demanding skill like photography, for instance -- are likely to improve cognitive functioning. These findings reveal that less demanding activities, such as listening to classical music or completing word puzzles, probably won't bring noticeable benefits to an aging mind.

Personal, social concerns motivate organic food buyers Posted: 21 Oct 2013 06:50 AM PDT Predicting whether consumers will purchase organic or conventional food is a multimillion dollar gamble within the food sector. Researchers can now help advertisers more effectively target the fast-growing organic food market.

Fiction reading as medicine Posted: 21 Oct 2013 06:47 AM PDT Fiction reading can be viewed as a considerable factor in the rehabilitation process for persons on sick leave. This is the conclusion of a new interdisciplinary study on sick-listed women's experiences with fiction reading to improve their health, so-called bibliotherapy.

Excessive alcohol consumption increases progression of atherosclerosis, risk of stroke Posted: 21 Oct 2013 06:46 AM PDT A Finnish population-based study showed that binge drinking was associated with increased atherosclerotic progression in an 11-year follow-up of middle-aged men. The progression of atherosclerosis was increased among men who consumed 6 drinks or more on one occasion. In addition, the risk of stroke increased among men who had at least one hangover per year. Hangovers increased the risk of stroke independent of the total amount of alcohol consumed.

Getting ready for Generation-C: Creative consumers who modify electronics Posted: 21 Oct 2013 06:45 AM PDT A generational movement consisting of creative consumers who modify proprietary offerings, and of members of society who in turn use their developments, all without any moral and legal considerations. Think video and audio mashups, jailbreaks for game consoles, unlocked mobile phones, tuned cars, even 'hacked' vacuum cleaners that can now be controlled remotely, via mobile phone apps.

Tip-of-the-tongue moments may be benign Posted: 16 Oct 2013 07:04 AM PDT Despite the common fear that those annoying tip-of-the-tongue moments are signals of age-related memory decline, the two phenomena appear to be independent.

Extended music education increases quality of school life Posted: 16 Oct 2013 07:01 AM PDT Recent research reveals measurable benefits of having a few extra hours of music education every week.

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