Study: Are kids hardwired for revenge?
Peter Blake, a Boston University associate professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of BU’s Social Development and Learning Lab, set out to better […]
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New tool measures patients’ perceptions of stroke care
(HealthDay)—The STROKE Perception Report is a valid and reliable measure of patients’ and family surrogates’ perceptions of the quality of acute stroke hospital services, according […]
Read moreFoot painters’ toes mapped like fingers in the brain
Using your feet like hands can cause organised ‘hand-like’ maps of the toes in the brain, never before documented in people, finds a new UCL-led […]
Read moreHemophilia three times more prevalent than thought
More than 1,125,000 men around the world have the inherited bleeding disorder of hemophilia, and 418,000 of those have a severe version of the mostly […]
Read moreWhy accidents and emergencies seem to dramatically slow down time
A few years ago I had a car crash. I was driving in the middle lane of a motorway, when a truck pulled out from […]
Read moreNIAID officials call for innovative research on sexually transmitted infections
Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, pose a significant public health challenge. Globally, more than one million new STI cases are diagnosed each day. In a […]
Read moreAre there health consequences associated with not using a smartphone?
Many studies have examined the health effects of smartphone abuse, but a new study looks at the sociodemographic features and health indicators of people who […]
Read moreStudy identifies first potential biomarker for a debilitating fainting condition
New research from the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences strongly suggests postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, is an autoimmune disorder, […]
Read moreZika diagnostic test granted market authorization by FDA
Zika virus can cause babies to be born with devastating brain damage. But the signs of Zika infection in adults—rash, fever, headache and body aches—are […]
Read moreStem cell companies using new US laws to provide unapproved products to seriously ill patients
A new US law, designed to give terminally ill patients access to unproven drugs, is being invoked by stem cell companies to make unapproved stem […]
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