Mechanism For Social Development Found To Be Absent In Autistic Children

Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between...

In The Age Of Facebook, Researcher Plumbs Shifting Online Relationships

A professor is researching details of relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential. She has discovered that across the social networking sites, online friendships...

Mothers Of Multiple Births At Increased Odds Of Postpartum Depression

Mothers of multiples have 43 percent increased odds of having moderate to severe depressive symptoms nine months after giving birth compared to mothers of single-born children, according to new research.

Embrace The 'Dwight Schrutes' In Your Office For Better Performance

Nobody wants to share a cubicle with a new hire like Dwight Schrute. The beet-farming volunteer sheriff's deputy/paper salesman creates many awkward moments because of his differences with co-workers on...

China issues another crackdown on scientific misconduct

China's Ministry of Education has defined seven acts of academic misconduct in a further bid to tackle the problem.

Interview: Nicholas Stern

How Old Are You Really? Can You Pick Up a Pencil?

The mere act of slogging through RealAge, the 85-question online health quiz, could subtract years from your life. Here’s a more focused quiz that should save you precious hours.

Art Review: When the Message Is the Art

Work in “And for All This, Nature Is Never Spent,” at the Pelham Art Center, manages to maintain aesthetic feeling while responding to environmental crisis.

Food Choices Evolve Through Information Overload

Ever been so overwhelmed by a huge restaurant menu that you end up choosing an old favorite instead of trying something new? Psychologists have long since thought that information overload...

WEEK IN PHOTOS: Sparkling Equinox, "Bubble" Woman, More

A woman walking on water, a sparkling equinox sunrise, a penguin success story, and a Canadian seal hunter are among the players in the week's best news photos.

Bad jobs a pain in the back

Unhappy workers and females living alone recover from back pain slower than their less stressed piers, research has found.

Anorexia risk 'could be predicted'

Surrogacy makes for a perilous path to parenthood

Some agencies have earned the trust of doctors and provide valuable services to couples and surrogates, but the industry's lack of regulation allows unscrupulous brokers to swindle aspiring parents. ...

New Method Of Assessing Women's Eggs Could Enhance IVF Success, Study Shows

A professor of obstetrics and gynecology recently published findings on a way to "profile" a woman's eggs to determine which are more likely to result in pregnancies.

Vacuum Cleaner Senses Human Emotions

Specially-equipped Roomba robot vacuum cleaner can now sense human emotional states.

Media reports on suicide can be fatal

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Sleeping pill use grows as economy keeps people up at night

More Americans are turning to such medications, but they're not without risks, such as dependence, next-day drowsiness, memory loss and sleep-walking.

Report: Spanking makes children aggressive

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 27 (UPI) -- Spanking children increases the likelihood they will become defiant and aggressive, a University of Michigan researcher said.

Yoga gear helps loosen up stiff bodies

"I can't do that," said the 36-year-old woman to my right as I leaned down and touched my toes in a yoga class. "I'm a runner." Such limitations may seem...

How doctors resolve disagreements

Even today, too often medical practitioners refuse to challenge one another. ...

Dr. Kenneth Cooper got a nation moving through aerobics

More than 40 years ago, his book touted a new type of exercise. ...

Getting health benefits from chocolate

A column described health benefits from chocolate. Would high-quality chocolate include Snickers bars? What would be a moderate amount, to get the health benefits?

Critics blast Alberta health board's 25% raises

Provincial critics are furious about a 25 per cent pay raise that the Alberta Health Services board voted for themselves earlier this week.

Americans spend eight hours a day on screens

Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens -- televisions, computer monitors, cellphones or other devices, according to a new study.

Patient Money: When the Stork Carries a Pink Slip

Pregnant women and new mothers have limited legal protection in case of a layoff; nevertheless, the federal government reports a rising number of discrimination charges are being filed.

Charge laid in Ontario needles-in-meat case

A woman from Guelph, Ont., has been charged in connection with the needles found in meat products in an Ontario supermarket.

Study Examines Lead Exposure and Accelerated Decline in Cognition in Older Women

The April 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) reports on a study examining the association of chronic low-level exposure to lead and accelerated declines in cognition...