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Parents encouraged to avoid purchasing lottery tickets as gifts for minors

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the flurry of activity before the holidays, some well-meaning family members consider buying lottery tickets and scratch cards as affordable, colourful, and potentially promising gift options for the children ...


Study: Internet use leads to more diverse networks

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.


Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science, a jour ...


Study identifies new gene associated with ALS

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King’s College London (KCL) has identified a novel gene for inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...


Involving family in medical rounds benefits both family and medical team

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Involving family members of pediatric cancer and hematology patients in medical rounds benefits both the family and the medical team, according to a new Indiana University School of Medicine study.


How schools, parents can work together for successful kids

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

It is widely understood that, ideally, schools and parents should work together to ensure that children can succeed as students and citizens. But what is the right balance? And how much do teachers want parents involved in ...


Women on company boards face stockmarket prejudice

Women on company boards face stockmarket prejudice

Other Sciences / Economics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies with female board members fare worse on the stock market, despite performing as well on all other measures as those with all-male boards. This is the finding of a new study by the ...


Survey: Family time eroding as Internet use soars

Technology / Internet

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Whether it's around the dinner table or just in front of the TV, U.S. families say they are spending less time together.


First gene for clubfoot identified

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clubfoot, one of the most common birth defects, has long been thought to have a genetic component. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have found the first gene linked to ...


Digital Life: Want to change Facebook's terms of service? Get 50 million people to agree

Technology / Internet

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comments on the Web are often immature or wildly misinformed. It was a pleasant surprise, then, to see Facebook members providing reasonable and articulate feedback in the social-networking's site new civic experiment.


Scientists pinpoint key proteins in blood stem cell replication

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A family of cancer-fighting molecules helps blood stem cells in mice decide when and how to divide, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Blocking the molecules' function spurs the normally resting ...


Industry support of academic life science research may be dropping

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with industrial entities, the prevalence of such relationships - particularly direct funding for research ...


Racial tension in a 'split-second'

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Interracial and interethnic interactions can often be awkward and stressful for members of both majority and minority groups. People bring certain expectations to their interactions with members of different groups—they often ...


Research Investigates Rebuilding Identity When Communication Is Impaired

Research Investigates Rebuilding Identity When Communication Is Impaired

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

What happens to a person’s identity when a stroke or a disease profoundly impairs the ability to communicate? In Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Life Stories and the Narrative Self, University of Arkan ...


Illuminating 'The Fredo Effect'

Illuminating 'The Fredo Effect'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kimberly Eddleston wants to know how the “family” in family-run businesses either serves to constrict or promote a firm’s success.