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Practice makes perfect, but not when it comes to decisions about risk

People aren't always good at making informed decisions that involve risk, but a new study shows that even when we know the likelihood of certain outcomes based on statistical evidence or our own experiences, we still make ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

C-sections linked to breathing problems in preterm infants

Research conducted at Yale School of Medicine shows that a cesarean (C-section) delivery, which was thought to be harmless, is associated with breathing problems in preterm babies who are small for gestational age.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Stanford develops new tool for teaching doctors to treat sepsis

Jack was sinking fast, his vital signs registering alarming numbers. With every passing second, his doctor, Charles Prober, could see his patient being overwhelmed by sepsis, a deadly complication of infection ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deciding to go left or right: Researchers use device to determine that lower animals can navigate too

For decades, scientists have associated binary decision making — opting to go left or right — with higher-ranking animals, including humans. A team of Harvard researchers, however, is rewriting that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Some formerly cohabiting couples with children keep romantic relationship

(PhysOrg.com) -- When low-income cohabiting couples with children decide to no longer live together, that doesn’t necessarily mean the end of their romantic relationship.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physically abused children report higher levels of psychosomatic symptoms

Children who display multiple psychosomatic symptoms, such as regular aches and pains and sleep and appetite problems, are more than twice as likely to be experiencing physical abuse at home than children who do not display ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New research shows C-section not always best for babies

The widely-held assumption that a cesarean delivery has no health risks for the baby is being challenged today by new research that found the procedure did not help some preterm babies who were small for gestational age, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New study links high levels of cadmium, lead in blood to pregnancy delay

Higher blood levels of cadmium in females, and higher blood levels of lead in males, delayed pregnancy in couples trying to become pregnant, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drinking large amounts of soft drinks associated with asthma and COPD

A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that a high level of soft drink consumption is associated with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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