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- College education not always about what you have, but how you use it
- Does love make sex better for most women?
- Fruit, vegetable intake still too low; human nutritionist says to focus on lunch
- Women will benefit from the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage
- Taking a stand: Balancing the benefits, risks of physical activity in children
- Key to saving lives: Hands-only CPR
- Hand gestures improve learning in both signers, speakers
- Physically fit kids have beefier brain white matter than their less-fit peers
- Bacteria detected in food may cause risks to unborn children
- Children's drawings indicate later intelligence, study shows
- Parents' vaccine intentions influenced by how benefits are communicated
| College education not always about what you have, but how you use it Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:59 AM PDT Students who have books and computers at home, who take extramural cultural classes, and whose parents give advice and take part in school activities are most likely to enroll for a four-year college degree. Also, more American black students -- irrespective of their class or background -- will set off on this education path than their white counterparts.  |
| Does love make sex better for most women? Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:59 AM PDT Love and commitment can make sex physically more satisfying for many women, according to a sociologist. The benefits of being in love with a sexual partner are more than just emotional. Most of the women in the study said that love made sex physically more pleasurable. Women who loved their sexual partners also said they felt less inhibited and more willing to explore their sexuality.  |
| Fruit, vegetable intake still too low; human nutritionist says to focus on lunch Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:59 AM PDT Children between the ages of 2 and 18 are eating more whole fruits and drinking less fruit juice, a new report finds after the implementation of a new program. However, vegetable intake remains the same, they say. One expert says the switch from fruit juice to whole fruit has been a big improvement.  |
| Women will benefit from the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage Posted: 19 Aug 2014 08:31 AM PDT Women could benefit greatly from the Affordable Care Act's mandate for contraceptive coverage, according to researchers. The Affordable Care Act requires private insurance plans -- except those grandfathered or exempted due to employers' religious beliefs -- to provide women with access to all FDA-approved contraceptive methods without cost-sharing. This first-dollar coverage "has the potential to dramatically shift contraceptive use patterns, to reduce the U.S. unintended pregnancy rate ... and to improve the health of women and families," write experts.  |
| Taking a stand: Balancing the benefits, risks of physical activity in children Posted: 19 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT Today the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology took a stand on the promotion of childhood physical activity. This position stand provides an important overview of knowledge in the area of risk of physical activity for children and suggests both practical guidelines and a research agenda. Uniquely, this position stand addresses both benefits and risks of physical activity for children.  |
| Key to saving lives: Hands-only CPR Posted: 19 Aug 2014 08:28 AM PDT Cardiac arrest – an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) and disrupts the flow of blood to the brain, lungs and other organs - is a leading cause of death. Each year, over 420,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States. When a person has a cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediately getting CPR from someone nearby.  |
| Hand gestures improve learning in both signers, speakers Posted: 19 Aug 2014 06:40 AM PDT Spontaneous gesture can help children learn, whether they use a spoken language or sign language, according to a new report. "Children who can hear use gesture along with speech to communicate as they acquire spoken language," a researcher said. "Those gesture-plus-word combinations precede and predict the acquisition of word combinations that convey the same notions. The findings make it clear that children have an understanding of these notions before they are able to express them in speech."  |
| Physically fit kids have beefier brain white matter than their less-fit peers Posted: 19 Aug 2014 05:34 AM PDT A new study of 9- and 10-year-olds finds that those who are more aerobically fit have more fibrous and compact white-matter tracts in the brain than their peers who are less fit. 'White matter' describes the bundles of axons that carry nerve signals from one brain region to another. More compact white matter is associated with faster and more efficient nerve activity.  |
| Bacteria detected in food may cause risks to unborn children Posted: 19 Aug 2014 05:32 AM PDT At least 10 percent of the fresh cheese, sausages and meats sold in markets and on the street may be contaminated, Mexican research suggests. Human listeriosis is a disease with a high mortality rate (20 to 30 percent) leading to severe diseases such as meningitis, septicemia, and miscarriages. It usually affects immunocompromised individuals, pregnant women, elderly and children. While the infection is spread by fecal-oral route of animal to human and from mother to fetus, the main source of infection is by eating contaminated food because of poor hygiene practices.  |
| Children's drawings indicate later intelligence, study shows Posted: 18 Aug 2014 05:41 PM PDT How 4-year-old children draw pictures of a child is an indicator of intelligence at age 14, according to a new study. The researchers studied 7,752 pairs of identical and non-identical twins and found that the link between drawing and later intelligence was influenced by genes.  |
| Parents' vaccine intentions influenced by how benefits are communicated Posted: 18 Aug 2014 07:21 AM PDT In a study designed to formally look at the content of parent-targeted communications about the benefits of vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella, investigators report that the framing of these messages influences parents' intentions to immunize their children.  |
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