News tagged with early reading

Probing Question: What do children need to be successful readers?

In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of…"

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Blood from periodontal disease can be used to screen for diabetes

Oral blood samples drawn from deep pockets of periodontal inflammation can be used to measure hemoglobin A1c, an important gauge of a patient's diabetes status, an NYU nursing-dental research team has found. Hemoglobin A1c ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A novel method for simultaneously measuring blood pressure and arterial stiffness

Arterial stiffness due to is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease but is very difficult to measure. It also can influence blood pressure readings since these rely on the time taken for arteries to return to normal ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seeing colors in music, tasting flavors in shapes may happen in life's early months

Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman sees a deep forest green whenever he plays a B-flat on his Stradivarius' G string. The A on the E string is red.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Commonly used vitamin could help produce 'good' cholesterol, researchers find

(Medical Xpress) -- Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can keep heart disease, heart attack and stroke away. And a commonly used vitamin could help by increasing production of “good” cholesterol in the body, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A therapist in your pocket

Brooding in your apartment on Saturday afternoon? A new smart phone intuits when you're depressed and will nudge you to call or go out with friends.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Positive parenting during early childhood may prevent obesity

Programs that support parents during their child's early years hold promise for obesity prevention, according to a new study in the online February 6 issue of Pediatrics.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap alternative to traditional solar cells

Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Class size matters to those who struggle most

Research shows that class size does matter; and that it matters most for socio-economically disadvantaged learners, the very groups that the Government says it is most concerned about, says Massey University Professor of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why two new studies represent important breakthrough in Alzheimer's disease research

Two different research groups have independently made the same important discoveries on how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain. The groups' findings have the potential to give us a much more sophisticated understanding ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Medical Minute: Writing your way to better health

When I have spoken about writing and depression, many people respond that they can understand the relationship -- whenever they have to write, they get depressed. That might have been the situation when they were in school, ...

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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