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Half of Utahns with autism lead fulfilling lives, follow-up study shows

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Twenty years after first being assessed in a long-term autism study, 41 Utahns with the disorder had a higher social outcome than those in similar studies, University of Utah psychiatry researchers have reported in the Journal of ...





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Lack of Social Interaction Affects Health Outcomes of Breast Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Social environment can play an important role in the biology of disease, including breast cancer, and lead to significant differences in health outcome, according to results of a study published in Cancer Pr ...


Cochlear implant recipients experience improvement in quality of life

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cochlear implant recipients experience a significant improvement in their quality of life, and have improved speech recognition, according to new research published in the March 2008 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Ne ...


Remembrance of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Riverside biologists researching the behavior of field crickets have found for the first time that female crickets remember attractive males based on the latter’s song, and use this information when choosing ...


University of Denver bullying victimization study

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 22, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A University of Denver study shows a curriculum-based bullying prevention program reduced incidents of bullying by 20 percent, twice as much as in the study control group.


Psychotherapy may improve course of medical disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Somatic symptom disorders are common, disabling and costly. This meta-analysis indicates how short-term dynamic psychotherapy may be effective on physical symptoms, psychiatric symptoms and social adjustment, even in the ...


Face-to-face or Facebook?

Technology / Other

created May 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can online networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, help new students settle into university social and academic life and minimise the chance of them withdrawing from their courses?


Teaching autistic teens to make friends

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

During the first week of class, the teens' eyes were downcast, their responses were mumbled and eye contact was almost nonexistent. By Week 12, though, these same kids were talkative, responsive and engaged.


Older Americans are more socially engaged than many people may think

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new University of Chicago study shows that older people remain vital and active members of society as they age, despite a popular notion that they are more likely to be socially isolated.


Client-directed therapy technique drastically reduces divorce/separation rates

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using four simple questions to generate client-directed feedback can greatly increase the chances that struggling couples will stay together, according to a recently published study.


Seeking the roots of collective cooperation

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

No one enjoys paying taxes. Even so, we need taxes if we want our streets clean, a proper public health care system, an educated population or the maintenance of Earth’s climate within habitable boundaries. This is what scientists ...



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