Archive for March, 2011
Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Dyslexia at School(Christo et al.)
series:Developmental Psychopathology at SchoolAs many as one in four children experiences problems with reading. Dyslexia, the most common learning disability leads to well-documented negative effects on school and, ultimately, adult success. Therefore, it is critical that school professionals provide early and effective assessment and intervention. Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Dyslexia at School equips practitioners with in-depth … (Source: Springer Psychology titles)
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No commentsLearning disabilities, dyslexia, and vision: The role of the pediatric ophthalmologist
Parents understand that the development of reading skills forms the basis for a strong education. Common wisdom holds that children attend school for the first few years to learn to read; then they read to learn. For parents of a child with reading difficulties this apprehension of poor school performance is often extrapolated into a fear of their child’s failing in life. The associated fear and frustration lead to a search for any interventions that may enhance the child’s reading potential and thus parent’s perception of success. Families rarely have excess time, money, or energy to spend on treatments that are as yet unproven. They need help, advice, and support. (Source: Journal of AAPOS)
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No commentsNew Cancer Rates Drop By Nearly 1% Per Year Over Four Year Period In USA
Between 2003 and 2007 death rates from all cancers fell steadily in America, researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Over that same period there was an average drop in deaths from all cancers of just under 1% annually, a trend that started in the early 1990s…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsNew Therapeutic Target For Lung Cancer
A new therapeutic target for lung cancer has been discovered by researchers at Seoul National University. It was found that a variant of the protein AIMP2 is highly expressed in lung cancer cells and also that patients demonstrating high expression of this variant show lower survival. The study is published on March 31 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics…
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No commentsAmerican Women Having Fewer Babies
Birth rates among women under 40 throughout most of the USA dropped by 4% in the two years up to 2009, the largest drop in over three decades, according to a report released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The largest decline has been in third-order births, but second- and first-order ones have also dropped…
Original post by A Hearty Life
No commentsAnavex Screening Healthy Volunteers For Phase I, First-In-Human Clinical Study In Alzheimer’s Disease
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex”) (OTCBB: AVXL) announced screening of the first healthy volunteers for the Phase I clinical study of ANAVEX 2-73, its lead compound for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsSelf-Test Kits Could Do More Harm Than Good, UK Consumer Report
Self-test kits could do more harm than good, said the independent UK consumer watchdog Which? today, after they recently reviewed six widely available home health kits and concluded they could be a waste of time, effort and money since they lacked important information and used misleading or baffling language…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsCWRU Receives $1.6M To Study Tumor And Immune Cell Detection
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study how tumor cells avoid detection by the body’s immune system, allowing cancer to develop and spread. The five-year National Institutes of Health grant will enable researchers led by Alex Y…
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No commentsExtremely Obese Man Stuck To Chair For Two Years Found Unconscious And Dies
A 43-year old morbidly obese man who had been stuck to a reclining chair for two years was found unconscious by roommates who immediately called the police. The Ohio man died later at Wheeling Hospital, West Virginia. According to medical staff, the man lived with a girlfriend and a friend in Bellaire, Ohio. They used to feed him because his skin was literally fused to the chair…
Original post by A Hearty Life
No commentsFirst European-Wide Research Confirms Benefits Of D-Penicillamine And Trientine For Wilson Disease
Results from the first ever European-wide retrospective analysis presented today at the International Liver CongressTM have shown both D-penicillamine and trientine continue to be effective treatments, providing positive survival rates in patients with Wilson disease free from a liver transplant…
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