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- Aerobic fitness boosts learning, memory in 9-10-year-old children
- Who's got guts? Young infants expect animals to have insides
- 'Love hormone' may play wider role in social interaction than previously thought
- American families taking 'divergent paths'
- Patient embraces personalized approach to lung cancer diagnosis
- Warnings may be ineffective at teaching young people about risks
- African-Americans at higher risk for health problems from insufficient sleep
- Five percent of US children, teens classified as 'severely obese'
| Aerobic fitness boosts learning, memory in 9-10-year-old children Posted: 11 Sep 2013 03:47 PM PDT Physical fitness can boost learning and memory in children, particularly when initial learning on a task is more challenging. |
| Who's got guts? Young infants expect animals to have insides Posted: 11 Sep 2013 01:10 PM PDT A team of researchers has shown that 8-month-old infants expect objects they identify as animals to have insides. |
| 'Love hormone' may play wider role in social interaction than previously thought Posted: 11 Sep 2013 10:19 AM PDT Oxytocin -- often referred to as "the love hormone" because of its importance in the formation and maintenance of strong mother-child and sexual attachments -- is involved in a broader range of social interactions than previously understood. |
| American families taking 'divergent paths' Posted: 11 Sep 2013 06:27 AM PDT After a period of relative calm during the 1990s, rapid changes in American families began anew during the 2000s, a new analysis suggests. |
| Patient embraces personalized approach to lung cancer diagnosis Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:53 PM PDT As a woman in her mid-forties who didn't smoke, Elizabeth Lacasia never expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer. But in 2006, after she developed a persistent and serious cough, a chest X-ray and CT scan revealed several tumors in her lower left lung. With the assistance of personalized medicine, her cancer is now in remission. |
| Warnings may be ineffective at teaching young people about risks Posted: 09 Sep 2013 02:20 PM PDT Young people have greater difficulty in learning from bad news to interpret their risk of future events, which might explain why they often do not respond to warnings. |
| African-Americans at higher risk for health problems from insufficient sleep Posted: 09 Sep 2013 02:20 PM PDT Blacks are more likely than whites to sleep less than seven hours a night, and the black-white sleep disparity is greatest in professional occupations. |
| Five percent of US children, teens classified as 'severely obese' Posted: 09 Sep 2013 01:27 PM PDT About five percent of American children and teens are severely obese -- putting them at high risk for premature heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Severe obesity is a newly defined class of risk, and effective treatment options for these children are limited. |
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