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People are Happier at the Older Age than when they are Younger: Study

..."When we're younger, we seem to be more focused on learning new skills, achieving new successes, acquiring things," the researchers said in their study published in the June issue of the Journal of Happiness Studies. "As we get older, we seem to recognise that life is only going to go on so much longer, ti...

Cancer Survivor Gives Birth To Baby Girl

...ertility, Lindsay set out to educate herself. Upon learning her of her risk of infertility, she dedicated herself to finding a way to preserve her ability to one day start a family. That day is finally here. “When I was diagnosed, the thought of being sterile was almost as devastating as my cancer diagnosis...

Stress Affects Fertility

...o conceive could increase their chances greatly by learning to cope more. Scientists have stated yesterday that many women who are struggling to conceive could greatly increase their chances, if they could learn to cope more effectively with the stress that day-to-day life offers. The research in the US have ...

Gene For Dyslexia Identified

...here letters in words are often reversed.// The learning disability, dyslexia, has a genetic component, according to German researchers. And finding the causative gene could opens up ways for treatment. Dyslexia generally affects family groups. Scientists at the National Genome Research Network report ...

Women With Hectic Jobs Prone To Infertility

...o conceive could increase their chances greatly by learning to cope more effectively with the stress of daily life, a new study by US scientists said. Although stress is known to reduce fertility, they warned that if a woman is also dieting and exercising, the effect could be many times greater, they said. ...

NBA To Distribute HIV/AIDS Materials In China

...e in a Box,' the kits contain interactive HIV/AIDS learning materials for teachers and peer educators to use in the classroom. Each kit also contains a basketball and other sports equipment to help young people learn about inclusion, empathy, teamwork and fair play. Chief of UNICEF's HIV/AIDS Programme in...

Analysis of Placenta Helps In Diagnosis of Autism At Birth

...velopmental disorder that affects a child's social learning and communication skills, many health experts have stated that the early diagnosis of autism could greatly improve the chances for a successful treatment. It was explained that the studies that had been conducted previously had showed the presence ...

Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal

...ents and teachers to attend while security forces, learning about the plan, would launch an attack. In several incidents, security forces used helicopters to indiscriminately bomb such indoctrination camps, resulting in civilian casualties. "Children should not be going to school fearfully," says Dhital. "F...

Older Adults could be Benefited from Chinese Martial-Arts

... 80 to 100.’ ‘You don't think about 70-year-olds learning new things they can carry on … this is so unexpected. This has made me feel much younger … much younger, let's say, 10 years. Someone who hasn't done this has no comprehension about how much better it has made me feel.’ The quantitative study inclu...

Researchers Investigate Protein that Protects Tumors

...ticular protein (EphB4) go up,” Gill says. “We are learning more about how this protein is turned on and off in a cancer cell.” (Source: Newswise)...

AIDS Awareness Through Quiz Shows

... was held in the capital recently. "Quizzing as a learning activity has huge potential and correct information passed on through our shows will surely spread awareness about Aids," said Siddharth Basu. "Participants of these quiz shows will be drawn from different socio-economic zones, so that, all communit...

Neurology behind Drinking in Teenagers

...ippocampus in the brain is a structure crucial for learning and memory. Researchers have found that alcohol drastically suppressed the activity of specific chemical receptors in the region with the suppressive effect being found to be significantly stronger in adolescent rat brain cells than in the brain cell...

Mild Sadness Provokes Depressive Thinking in Some Recovered Patients

...ill show cognitive processes—patterns in thinking, learning and memory—commonly associated with the condition, while others in remission do not. Such cognitive processes include certain ways of explaining events or particular assumptions about self-worth. Zindel V. Segal, Ph.D., University of Toronto and Ce...

Mammoth Goof ups by NHS cost dear to one million victims!

... statistics would be terrifying enough without our learning that there is undoubtedly substantial under-reporting of serious incidents and deaths. To top it all, the NHS simply has no idea how many people die each year from patient safety incidents. Around 50 per cent of all actual incidents might have been a...

Indian Origin Woman is the New Head of British Medical Association

...ity of London. 4Her ethos of accessible and fun learning has been passed on beyond her own classroom through her textbook, "Clinical Medicine", (co-authored with Michael Clarke), which has now become a standard source for medical students and doctors across the world. In 2000, Kumar was awarded CBE (Comm...

Demographic Change Demand a New Life-Course for Aging Society

...enerations may wonder about the way we concentrate learning in the first phase of life, work in the middle of life, and leisure in the later years, when our children no longer need us, Vaupel and Loichinger point out. The rigid patterns of biographies and the low employment rates at older ages are no longer s...

Sleep Essential For A Strong Memory

...ep for non-declarative memories, like the steps of learning to tap numeric sequences on a keyboard. It was exp...ned as the trend of forgetting something else when learning a new piece of information. The researchers made the participants to memorize 20 pairs of words an...

iSTART Brain Model Reveals the possible Cause of Autism

...ch tries to explain fundamental issues about human learning and behavior. The first//, called Adaptive Resonan... be concrete or abstract. Low vigilance allows for learning of broad abstract recognition categories, such as a category that is activated by any face; high vig...

Research Fund for FSU to Eradicate Dyslexia

...represents the NIH's flagship research program for learning disabilities. Dyslexia is a learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words. Although onc...

Gene Mutations Causing Rett Syndrome Occur in Both Sexes

... this study represent an important step forward in learning more about MECP2 mutations in infant males, many questions still remain regarding the role of the gene and its contribution to the encephalopathy of Rett syndrome," said Dr. Gary Goldstein, President and CEO of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. "To help...

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