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Autism's social struggles due to disrupted communication networks in brain
Picking up on innuendo and social cues is a central component of engaging in conversation, but people with autism often struggle to determine another person's intentions in a social interaction....
Video: Better Bug Sprays?
50 years of DEET has left a bad taste. Now some promising replacements are emerging.
Facebook gets a facelift to help users share
(AP) -- The popular online hangout Facebook is sporting a new look to reflect changes in how its members communicate with each other and how they share photos and...
Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' Are Easier To Remember
Which is easier to remember: 4432879960 or 443-297-9960? The latter, of course. Adults seem to know automatically, in fact, that long strings of numbers are more easily recalled when divided...
Teen Smokers Struggle To Kick The Habit; Most Want To Quit And Can't
Most teenagers who smoke cigarettes make repeated attempts to quit but most are unsuccessful, according to new research. The study found that more than 70 percent of the teens expressed...
Advocating a Treatment, but Denied Access to It
It is a case that pits a mother desperately seeking a medical treatment for her son against a biotechnology company for whom she claims to have worked tirelessly as an...
Treatment policy seems to write off seniors
At 80, she was told she no longer needed periodic colonoscopies. Why? ...
Cancer Researchers Call For Ethnicity To Be Taken Into Account
Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in The Lancet. Emerging evidence suggests...
Shopping's dark side: The compulsive buyer
As mental health professionals debate the problematic behavior, clinics spring up. ...
Water-diffusion Technology Identifies Brain Regions Damaged By Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder often have structural brain damage. Recent findings show that several specific white matter regions, as well as deep gray matter areas, of the brain...
Studies refute myths of obese in the workplace
New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their "normal...
Loud bar music makes customers drink more: study
LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.
Stumbling on the path to G-spot utopia
Eager to connect with that elusive (some say mythical) 'erotogenic zone'? Years after the hype began, finding it remains easier said than done. But that's not stopping researchers from looking.
Smoking and Coffee-Drinking Really Is High Among AA Attendees
A church sits across the street from one of my previous apartments in Manhattan. In the evenings, I’d see a passel of people emerge from it for a spell of...
Doctors are key to tackling knife violence, says expert
Every hospital emergency department should share information about violent incidents with local crime reduction agencies to tackle the problem of knife crime, says an expert in this week's BMJ.
ITunes Allows Radiologists To Save, Sort And Search Personal Learning Files
iTunes has the ability to manage and organize PDF files just as easily as music files, allowing radiologists to better organize their personal files of articles and images, according to...
Benefits Of A Little Resistance Training For Older Adults
New research is showing the benefits of resistance training in keeping older people in tip top form.
Bullying-suicide link
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13...
Right and Wrong: How War Changes Children
Childhood is a carefree time, that is, unless your country is torn apart by war.
No place for mentally ill young people, parent says
Newfoundland and Labrador doesn't have a psychiatric unit designed specifically for young people, something the province desperately needs, says the father of a mentally ill teenager.
'Rampage' Jackson hospitalized for mental health evaluation
Irvine police are called to his home after acquaintances say they were concerned for the popular MMA fighter's well-being. ...
Family sues co. for muscular dystrophy drug
(AP) -- A Minnesota family is trying to force a New Jersey drug company to give their son an experimental drug for a fatal form of muscular dystrophy, saying...
XM-Sirius Merger Gets Conditional Go-Ahead
The FCC commissioner holding the potential deciding vote says he'll decide in favor of the merger if the two companies agree to tougher conditions.
Solitary Hyenas Still Get the Last Laugh
New research indicates that, to offset the cost of competition among the group, spotted hyenas still demonstrate an ancestral tendency to separate themselves when searching for their next meal.
Underactive region in brain linked to OCD
British researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that an area of the brain that regulates habitual behaviour is under-activated in people with obsessive compulsive disorder and their close...
Research Publications Online: Too Much Of A Good Thing?
The Internet gives scientists and researchers instant access to an astonishing number of academic journals. So what is the impact of having such a wealth of information at their fingertips?...
Complex questions asked by defense lawyers linked to convictions in child abuse trials
Defendants in child abuse cases are more likely to be convicted if their defense lawyer uses complicated language when interrogating young victims according to new research out of the University...
Who says the Internet broadens your horizons?
Online access to scientific journals can be a mixed blessing, as Philip Ball finds out.