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More than half of US adults use Facebook: study
More than half of US adults use online social networking service Facebook, according to an upcoming study.
Tourettes brains are structured for greater, not lesser, cognitive motor control
Contrary to intuition, people who suffer from the motor and vocal tics characteristic of Tourette syndrome actually perform behavioral tests of cognitive motor control more accurately and quickly than their...
Teachers unaware of growing gender gaps in classrooms, US study finds
A gap in reading and math scores still exists in lower grades, with boys continuing to outpace girls in math, and girls ahead of boys in reading, two US education...
Around 25 percent of health messages in Spanish text books are not based on scientific evidence, study finds
Most school text books contain messages about health, but 24.6 percent of these are not based on any scientific evidence, according to a study by researchers in Spain.
What's behind our conflicted feelings on nukes?
Even before the Japanese nuclear crisis, Americans were bombarded with contradictory images and messages that frighten even when they try to reassure.
Eye movement differs in British and Chinese populations
Scientists have found that eye movement patterns of Chinese people, born and raised in China, are different to those of Caucasian people living in Britain.
Gambling problems are more common than drinking problems, according to first-of-its-kind study
After age 21, problem gambling is considerably more common among US adults than alcohol dependence, even though alcohol dependence has received much more attention, according to researchers.
Religious young adults become obese by middle age: Cause may be unhealthy food at religious activities
Could it be the potato salad? Young adults who frequently attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese by middle age as young adults with no religious...
Can You Pass The Basic Air Force Fitness Exam?
Due to high failure rate, the Air Force is partnering with Gottlieb/Loyola hospital-based health club to start training of new Chicago recruits early before training camp to help get them...
Military kids' stress rises during missions
Adolescents in military families often carry emotional burdens when a parent is deployed to Afghanistan, according to a new Canadian study.
After Collective Trauma, Religiosity and/or Spirituality Found to Affect Health Outcomes
UB faculty expert, Michael Poulin, assistant professor of psychology, available to speak of new study findings published in the current issue of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, that after...
Wolters Kluwer Health Supports Disaster Relief Efforts in Japan
In support of disaster relief efforts in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, are providing free online access...
Spotlight on Harvard in Brazil
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Brazil, she is reconnecting with alumni, exchanging ideas with the leaders of local universities, and meeting with Brazilian...
Conflicting fitness messages underscore women's fit body stereotypes
(PhysOrg.com) -- From boot camp to step aerobics, yoga to martial arts, women have been pummeled by the fitness industry and messages in the media to exercise in pursuit of...
NYU Langone Medical Center's Dr. John P. Curtin Elected President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
NYU Langone Medical Center's John P. Curtin, MD, professor and director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been elected the 43rd President...
HMS fellowship open for applicants
Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Junior Faculty Merit Scholarship. To be eligible for the fellowship, applicants must...
Orthodontic researchers ask: Where's your retainer?
Have you been wearing your retainer? It's a question countless parents ask of their children post-braces. Now Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers are getting serious about...
Gay couples could benefit from testing together
A number of American men who have sex with men are supportive of couples-based voluntary HIV counseling and testing (CVCT), in which couples receive counseling and their HIV test results...
Designing a stronger safety net
Taube Weiner has had no problems making the most of retirement. From learning Hebrew and celebrating an adult bat mitzvah to picking up consulting work as a career counselor, Weiner has embraced her...
Do ask, do tell
Last September, Lissa Young received a frantic phone call. “What are you doing tomorrow?” asked a desperate friend on the other end of the line. “I need you to go to Portland,...
A look inside: Dudley House Co-op
Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept....
Together again
Water polo-playing sisters Aisha and Shayna Price took it upon themselves to make Harvard notice them. Living 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland, in Honolulu, the sisters Price became entrepreneurial makers of their...
Finding a sense of place
Fresh off the plane in May to begin an overseas internship, I knew nothing of the life I would be entering except for the vague recollections of history classes, faded maps, and...
EU favors green travel, survey indicates
BRUSSELS, March 24 (UPI) -- Most Europeans asked said they would make greener transportation choices if given the right incentives to do so, a European survey indicated.
How the bilingual brain copes with aging
Older bilingual adults compensate for age-related declines in brainpower by developing new strategies to process language, according to a recent study published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology,...
This Is Evolution
We are developing past the merely human stage. We couldn’t stop it if we all really wanted to. Techno-future will be. The transhumanism crowd has understood what evolution is all about...
UCLA pediatrician returns Japan's favor
A Japanese scholarship enabled Okinawa native Kozue Shimabukuro to study medicine. When disaster struck, she immediately signed up to join a medical relief effort. It's 'my turn to believe in...
Tucson shooting suspect sent for psych evaluation
The suspect in the January shooting rampage in Tucson was flown Wednesday to a facility in Missouri to undergo a court-ordered mental evaluation, and his lawyers immediately asked an appeals...