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Bush wants $7bn to fight bird flu

U.S. president George Bush has called on Congress to approve $7.1 billion in emergency spending to pay for a strategy to prepare America for the danger of a pandemic bird flu outbreak.

2 Nov 2005

Pediatricians ignoring hearing test results

Pediatricians are not referring more than half of the children who fail hearing screenings for further tests, according to new research by a Saint Louis University physician. The study was published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

1 Nov 2005

Teens with missing part of a chromosome confirm genetic role in schizophrenia

A study in youth who are missing part of a chromosome is further implicating a suspect gene in schizophrenia.

23 Oct 2005

Dopamine link to psychiatric and neurological disorders

A gene that regulates dopamine levels in the brain is involved in the development of schizophrenia in children at high risk for the disorder, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the University of Geneva.

23 Oct 2005

Mental health professionals need to be watchful of mental health problems beyond depression in order to prevent youth suicide

WHO researchers examine which mental disorders or combinations of disorders may be most responsible for youth suicide in a new study being released in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

23 Oct 2005

Identification of a single chromosome region linked to specific language impairment

Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T), Capital Health's Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and their international collaborators have discovered a genetic abnormality that causes a type of language impairment in children

19 Oct 2005

Harvard study finds vaccines boost economies of poor countries

Immunization programs in impoverished countries not only save lives, they boost economies, finds a study by researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) published in the current edition of World Economics.

16 Oct 2005

Ebixa (memantine) approved for the treatment of moderate Alzheimer's disease

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has announced its decision to extend Ebixa’s current indication (moderately severe to severe disease) to include moderate stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

16 Oct 2005

New discoveries help explore the function of regulatory T cells in autoimmune disease and in cancer

More than 150 years after the discovery of Hassall's corpuscles in 1849, the function of these round blobs of cells in the human thymus gland has now been explained. The answer, in turn, ends an intense hunt for the origin of regulatory T cells that has been under way for years.

11 Oct 2005

New way to measure the impact of AIDS on the living brain

A new University of California - Los Angeles/University of Pittsburgh imaging study for the first time shows the selective pattern of destruction inflicted by AIDS on brain regions that control motor, language and sensory functions. High-resolution 3-D color scans created from magnetic resonance images (MRI) vividly illustrate the damage.

10 Oct 2005

Significant new research centre - the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre

The centre, based at the UCL (University College London) Department of Human Communication Science, will see ESRC inject £4.5 million over an initial 5 year period into a study of deafness, linguistic systems and communication that will run over a 10 year programme.

10 Oct 2005

Site in the brain that controls language in right-handed people shifts with aging

...a discovery that might offer hope in the treatment of speech problems resulting from traumatic brain injury or stroke.

9 Oct 2005

New information regarding the genetic, cellular and neurological bases of susceptibility to autism and schizophrenia

Two New Jersey research teams are reporting discoveries about the biological nature of psychiatric disorders that may bring them closer to the ultimate goal of finding cures for complex diseases, such as autism and schizophrenia.

9 Oct 2005

PET imaging with FDG represents one of the most promising tools for diagnosis of Alzheimer's

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging--with the radiotracer fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)--is a promising tool in detecting Alzheimer's disease in patients who have mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a study reported in the October issue of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

5 Oct 2005

Bacteria of different species can talk to each other using a common language

The interspecies crosstalk and misdirection could have important consequences for human health, said Bonnie L. Bassler, an HHMI investigator at Princeton University whose study was published in the September 29, 2005, issue of Nature.

4 Oct 2005

Important developmental link between the cerebrum and the cerebellum

Higher cognitive functions, like language and visual processing, have long been thought to reside primarily in the brain's cerebrum. But a body of research in premature infants at Children's Hospital Boston is documenting an important role for the cerebellum

3 Oct 2005

Still a long way to go in diagnostic evaluation of all patients who suffer ischemic strokes

Women who survive a stroke are less likely than men to get crucial tests of their heart and neck arteries that can help improve their treatment and reduce their risk of a second stroke, a new University of Michigan study finds.

27 Sep 2005

Five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts

Psychologists at Harvard University have found that five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts even without the formal education or language to express this knowledge in words.

26 Sep 2005

Two recent studies may help clinicians and researchers better predict and understand dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Both studies appear in the September issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Psychologists focus on early detection in part because current medications are useful only when given very early in the course of the disease.

26 Sep 2005

Need for more outdoor play spaces so that children could have more choice over materials, locations and playmates

Young children may be missing out on 'pretend' games like pirates and spacemen due to the demands of the school curriculum, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

12 Sep 2005

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Bush wants $7bn to fight bird flu

Pediatricians ignoring hearing test results

Teens with missing part of a chromosome confirm genetic role in schizophrenia

Dopamine link to psychiatric and neurological disorders

Mental health professionals need to be watchful of mental health problems beyond depression in order to prevent youth suicide

Identification of a single chromosome region linked to specific language impairment

Harvard study finds vaccines boost economies of poor countries

Ebixa (memantine) approved for the treatment of moderate Alzheimer's disease

New discoveries help explore the function of regulatory T cells in autoimmune disease and in cancer

New way to measure the impact of AIDS on the living brain

Significant new research centre - the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre

Site in the brain that controls language in right-handed people shifts with aging

New information regarding the genetic, cellular and neurological bases of susceptibility to autism and schizophrenia

PET imaging with FDG represents one of the most promising tools for diagnosis of Alzheimer's

Bacteria of different species can talk to each other using a common language

Important developmental link between the cerebrum and the cerebellum

Still a long way to go in diagnostic evaluation of all patients who suffer ischemic strokes

Five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts

Two recent studies may help clinicians and researchers better predict and understand dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Need for more outdoor play spaces so that children could have more choice over materials, locations and playmates

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