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Informal social networks better at encouraging Hispanics to prepare for disasters, study finds
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lay health teachers who engaged Hispanics inside their social networks were more effective than mailers at encouraging participants to prepare disaster plans.
Drug for Alzheimer's disease does not appear to slow cognitive decline
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Although there were promising results in a phase 2 trial, patients with mild Alzheimer disease who received the drug tarenflurbil as part of a phase 3 trial did not have better outcomes on measures of cognitive decline or ...
How do we understand written language?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2009 |
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How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...
Researchers ID traits of people with rare accelerated aging syndrome
Dec 15, 2009 |
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UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have provided the most extensive account to date of the unique observable characteristics seen in patients with an extremely rare premature aging syndrome.
Aviation-based team training may influence clinicians' safety behaviors
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Team training based on protocols originally developed for aviation crews may change safety-related behaviors and contribute to perceptions of empowerment among nurses and other surgical staff, according to a report in the ...
Are most consumers planners when it comes to time and money? New study shows some benefits
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Planning -- regarding money or time -- can bring tangible benefits to consumers. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research discovered what makes planners tick.
Clinical Trial Examines Drug's Potential for Protecting the Optic Nerve
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Acute optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve, doesn't occur all that often. But for those who experience it, the vision loss, pain and nerve damage that often result are no small ...
New Web tool may help predict risk of second stroke
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have developed a new web-based tool that may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke, according to research published in the December 16, 2009, online issue ...
Depression saps endurance of the brain's reward circuitry
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion.
Study identifies those elderly most at risk for major depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression.
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