LENA Foundation Revives Popular Online Child Language Assessment Tool

BOULDER, Colo., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The LENA(TM) Developmental Snapshot is back by popular demand, once again offering parents a confidential, quick and easy way to find out their child's developmental age online ( https://www.lenababy.com/secure/LenaDevelopmentalSnapshot.aspx ). (Logo: ...

Protein Nasal Spray Revives Sleep-Deprived Monkeys

A natural brain compound could help shift workers or those with narcolepsy, scientists say FRIDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The naturally occurring brain protein called orexin-A may be key to undoing the negative mental effects of staying up all night, at least in monkeys. Orexin-A is a pep...

When the Cup of Wine (alcohol) Revives the Spirit to Live…

Toronto- Canadian researchers seem to have uncorked a life-saving idea. When somebody is gravely injured and life// hangs in a delicate balance, alcohol levels in the blood could numb the brain and offset acute brain damage, saving life. Doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences elaborated that, ...

A Substitute for Those Who Can't Take Statins?

... Red yeast rice does well in small trial, but there are potential risks MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- A new study revives a running controversy about the purported cholesterol-lowering effects of the centuries-old natural product called red yeast rice. Red yeast rice i...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...ecrets of Ikebana with students seeking refuge from the frantic pace of the booming capital. "The city drains your energy and this creativity revives you. It allows you to defend yourself, to become a normal person again," said Dina Gorodetskaya, 47, a student at a Moscow school. Popular when the pa...

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Breaking news: Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter

A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athle...

Young Blood Revives Aging Muscles, Stanford Researchers Find

Any older person can attest that aging muscles don't heal like young ones. But it turns out that's not the muscle's fault. A study in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature shows that it's old blood that keeps the muscles down. The study, led by Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology and n...

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Techware revives broadband project

Hartford, Wis. - Techware , a Hartford-based technology services company, has announced plans to complete a wireless broadband network in the Washington County village of Germantown , but the company also has visions of serving other areas of the state. Techware, which provides computer cons...