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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

U.N. MDG summit draft conclusions call for aid promise follow through, highlight progress and challenges

The draft conclusions for the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit in September, which were distributed to governments last week, call on world leaders to follow through on promises of aid money to help countries reach the benchmarks established in 2000, Reuters reports.

11 Jun 2010

Senate Dems point to Medicare rebate checks to improve health law's image

Lawmakers are focusing on different aspects of Medicare policies as Democrats point to Medicare rebates to woo senior citizens and some Republicans are expressing opposition to a targeted Medicare payment provision related to California physicians and included in the Senate's tax extender bill.

11 Jun 2010

Caregiver's guide on avoiding life-threatening swallowing problems

That's the message of Drs. Roya Sayadi and Joel Herskowitz. They are a wife-husband team from Natick, Massachusetts, who are spreading the word that swallowing problems are everywhere - and they can be deadly!

10 Jun 2010

Body language exposes 'green fakers'

The inner feelings of people who falsely claim to care about the environment can be exposed by understanding their body language, according to a new book.

From The University of Manchester 9 Jun 2010

Tel Aviv University researchers invent new tool to control risk of runaway stem cells

Stem cell research holds promise for improving the quality of human life ― especially embryonic stem cells, which can potentially develop into any tissue in the human body. However, basic scientific problems still remain unresolved -- but Tel Aviv University researchers are leading the way to inventive solutions.

9 Jun 2010

A-Life Medical debuts on Healthcare Informatics 100

A-Life Medical, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has been included in the Healthcare Informatics 100, a listing comprising the top 100 healthcare information technology (IT) vendors, according to this leading trade journal. The list appeared in the publication's June 2010 issue.

8 Jun 2010

Parents pressure schools to comply with IDEA or face legal action regarding students with ASD

School districts across the U.S. struggle with the combination of two harsh realities: an increasing intensity of budget cuts for 2010-11, and complying with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which guarantees "free appropriate" education to all disabled students including the growing number of students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

7 Jun 2010

Elekta Neuromag TRIUX system unveiled at Organization of Human Brain Mapping's Annual Meeting

At the Organization of Human Brain Mapping's 16th Annual Meeting (Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10), Elekta unveiled its next generation magnetoencephalography system, Elekta Neuromag TRIUX. A platform that addresses key requirements critical for monitoring normal and abnormal brain activity, Elekta Neuromag TRIUX was designed to operate in virtually any clinical environment – an advance welcomed by the growing number of Elekta Neuromag clinical and research facilities worldwide.

From Elekta 7 Jun 2010

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Telemedicine holds the key to the rehabilitation of people with stroke living in northern, rural, remote Canadian communities, rehabilitation researcher Esmé French told the Canadian Stroke Congress today.

7 Jun 2010

Regular bedtime, adequate sleep lead to positive developmental outcomes in children

Children in households with bedtime rules and children who get adequate sleep score higher on a range of developmental assessments, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC.

7 Jun 2010

Tax credit for organ donation may help address shortage for transplant

A Universit- de Montr-al philosopher and ethicist is proposing that governments implement an organ donation tax credit to help increase the number of organs available for transplant.

4 Jun 2010

Latest version of LOINC for electronic health information exchange to be released

As the practice, regulation and reimbursement of health care become more complicated, and as the demand for electronic medical records and health information exchange grows, a universal method of identifying test results and other clinical measurement is essential.

4 Jun 2010

Three in five Americans may develop noise-induced hearing loss

Use of ear bud headphones by youngsters may save your ears from being assaulted by the noise of your teenagers' music or electronic game but are they damaging your child's hearing?

3 Jun 2010

Updates in Surgery, the official journal of SIC to be published by Springer in English

From June 2010, Springer will publish Updates in Surgery, the official journal of the Italian Society of Surgery. The journal, previously a bilingual Italian-English publication, is now published four times a year in English only. The content will be available in print for the society members and it will also be electronically available on Springer's platform www.springerlink.com.

2 Jun 2010

Parents can play critical role in children's autism treatment: New research

New research on behavioral treatment for autism has been released by the Chicago Children's Clinic, advancing previous findings that parents can play a critical role in a child's autism treatment.

2 Jun 2010

Canada willing to spend $1B on G8 maternal, child health initiative

Canada has told other G8 countries that it "is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health - as long as other countries ante up, too," the Canadian Press/Winnipeg Free Press reports.

2 Jun 2010

Sound repetition helps memorize complex sounds

Sound repetition allows us to memorize complex sounds in a very quick, effective and durable way. This form of auditory learning, which was evidenced for the first time by researchers from CNRS, ENS Paris, and Paris Descartes and Toulouse 3 universities, is believed to occur in daily life to help us identify and memorize sound patterns; it allows, for example, immediate recognition of sounds which become familiar through experience, such as the voice of relatives.

1 Jun 2010

IMRT avoids xerostomia, but effectiveness on controlling cancer unclear

An advanced type of cancer radiation is more successful than traditional radiation in avoiding "dry mouth" when treating head and neck cancers, but it is unknown whether the treatment is better or worse at reducing the size of tumors, according to a new comparative effectiveness review funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

31 May 2010

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 2010 meeting set for June 27-30 in Rome, Italy

New research findings from fertility experts from Europe, the Americas, Asia & Australasia

31 May 2010

Family businesses may miss out on insurance tax credits; Doctors' angry with Congress

The Boston Globe explores a largely overlooked provision in the tax credits offered to small businesses by the new health law to help cover the costs of insuring workers. "[M]any Massachusetts small business owners who employ mostly family members are discovering fine print in the new law that disqualifies, or substantially limits, their tax credit. That language says family-owned businesses are not allowed to count employees who are also family members toward the credit, which is retroactive to January.

31 May 2010

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U.N. MDG summit draft conclusions call for aid promise follow through, highlight progress and challenges

Senate Dems point to Medicare rebate checks to improve health law's image

Caregiver's guide on avoiding life-threatening swallowing problems

Body language exposes 'green fakers'

Tel Aviv University researchers invent new tool to control risk of runaway stem cells

A-Life Medical debuts on Healthcare Informatics 100

Parents pressure schools to comply with IDEA or face legal action regarding students with ASD

Elekta Neuromag TRIUX system unveiled at Organization of Human Brain Mapping's Annual Meeting

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Regular bedtime, adequate sleep lead to positive developmental outcomes in children

Tax credit for organ donation may help address shortage for transplant

Latest version of LOINC for electronic health information exchange to be released

Three in five Americans may develop noise-induced hearing loss

Updates in Surgery, the official journal of SIC to be published by Springer in English

Parents can play critical role in children's autism treatment: New research

Canada willing to spend $1B on G8 maternal, child health initiative

Sound repetition helps memorize complex sounds

IMRT avoids xerostomia, but effectiveness on controlling cancer unclear

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 2010 meeting set for June 27-30 in Rome, Italy

Family businesses may miss out on insurance tax credits; Doctors' angry with Congress

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

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