Sat, 25 May 2013 23:29:53 GMT

Scientists-- and parents-- have long wondered why we dont remember anything that happened before age 3. As all parents know, no matter how momentous an event is in a toddlers life, the memory soon drifts away and within months there isnt even a wisp of it left.Now a new study shows that infantile amnesia may be due to the rapid growth of nerve cells in the hippocampus, the brain region resp...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:58:29 GMT

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:28:46 GMT

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:28:45 GMT

It sounded too good to be true and unfortunately it was. Three research studies out Thursday severely diminish the hope that a cancer drug already on the market could be an Alzheimers treatment.In February 2012 scientists at Case Western University Medical Center reported that a drug approved to treat skin cancer cured a mouse of a form of Alzheimers. They reported the drug eliminated the plaq...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:08:50 GMT

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:11:24 GMT

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argues that businesses not just the currently exempted religious groups sho...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:35 GMT

A cluster of mysterious respiratory illnesses that alarmed southeast Alabama turned out to be nothing more sinister than ordinary cold and seasonal flu, health officials said Thursday.Lab tests by state and federal officials ruled out avian influenza and a novel coronavirus, now known as MERS, that has killed 22 people in the Middle East.There is no evidence of any new or unexpected virus circula...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:35 GMT

The H7N9 bird flu can spread from one mammal to another meaning it could also spread person to person, an international team of researchers reported Thursday.Researchers havent been exactly sure how H7N9 is spreading. They know it can infect people its infected more than 130 people and killed more than 30 of them but they have suspected most of the victims had some sort of contact with inf...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:33 GMT

What distinguishes somebody with high intelligence quotient (IQ) scores, besides the annoying habit of finding a way to inject that fact into almost any conversation?According to a new study from researchers at the University of Rochester, it could be their ability to ignore sensory information, specifically irrelevant information we take in with our eyes.The study, released Thursday by the journa...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:02:14 GMT

By Tom Miles and Stephanie NebehayReutersThe World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on Thursday that they must share information and not allow commercial labs to profit from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide. Saudi Arabia, where the first case occurred, has said the development of diagnostic tests for the disease ...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:15 GMT

Children need a full hour of exercise in schools every day, and not just in physical education classes, the Institute of Medicine recommended on Thursday.Schools that have dumped education classes need to put them back on the schedule, the report recommends. They also need to help kids get up and moving in the classroom, at recess and after school, a committee of experts appointed by the Ins...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:12:05 GMT

The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. WHO officials have reported another fatal case of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, in central Saudi Arabia, but say it is not related to the cluster of cases reported from the country's east. The U.N. health agency said in a statement Thursday, c...

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