Remember the children's game "warmer/colder," where one person uses those words to guide the other person to a hidden toy or treat? Well, it turns out that chimpanzees can play, too. Researchers at Georgia State University's Language ...
The Malaysia Kitchen Program USA under the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), has newly appointed Christina Arokiasamy as Malaysia's Food Ambassador to the U.S. As a spice expert and acclaimed cookbook author, ...
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For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report that fast-food ...
Scientists involved in the EU-funded project ChildInnovac are about to publish in the online journal Plos One the results of their first clinical trial of a new nasal vaccine. Designed for infants, it targets whooping cough, a common and, ...
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
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A new gene therapy that successfully treated a rare eye disease in clinical trials could prove the key to preventing more common inherited causes of blindness, researchers say. In six male patients, doctors used a virus to repair a ...
Up to half of women with postpartum depression -- a mood disorder that can occur after childbirth -- develop long-term depression, according to a new review. The findings show the need for doctors to closely monitor women with postpartum ...
A small study by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College in India reveals high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) infection among young children, troubling rates of disseminated ...
Medicine alone cannot improve the health of the nation -- not when one in five Americans lives in unsafe neighborhoods where pollution, crime and joblessness are prevalent; nutritious food is scarce; and the well-being of young people is at ...
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Certain types of fractures may indicate lower bone strength in children, a new study suggests. For the study, published online Jan. 7 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, researchers compared bone strength in 115 boys and girls, ...
The incidence of auto-immune diseases like type 1 diabetes and allergies has risen dramatically in developed countries over the past fifty years. The reasons for this trend are not fully understood but a theory known as the 'hygiene ...
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2XU ("Two Times You") has hired former tennis professional Randy Becker to head sales operations in the tennis and golf markets in the U.S. Becker brings years of proven sales and marketing experience to assist 2XU expanding distribution of ...
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Broken bones may seem like a normal part of an active childhood. About 1 in 3 otherwise healthy children suffers a bone fracture. Breakage of the bone running from the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist (distal forearm fracture) is the ...
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People who are aerobically fit as teenagers are less likely to have a heart attack in middle age, a study of nearly 750,000 Swedish men suggests. Every 15 percent increase in aerobic fitness in your teen years is associated with an 18 ...
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The Spanish womenswear and accessories brand hits Paris with a new space in the So Ouest mall. Nice Things is continuing its bid for France, its largest international market. Its new shop in the Parisian mall So Ouest is the latest PoS in ...
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