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Smartphone Training Helps People with Memory Impairment Regain Independence
The treatment for moderate-to-severe memory impairment could one day include a prescription for a smartphone. Baycrest has published the strongest evidence yet that a smartphone training program, theory-driven and specifically designed for individuals...
Storm Warning: Financial Tsunami Heading This Way
In today’s global village, national coffers are more interconnected than ever before. And as the current economic crisis has proven, a downturn in one country can travel in a wave across the globe, like a financial tsunami. Now, researchers from...
Study Identifies Steep Learning Curve for Surgeons Who Perform ACL Reconstructions
Patients who have their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructed by surgeons who have performed less than 60 surgeries are roughly four to five times more likely to undergo a subsequent ACL reconstruction, according to a study by researchers at...
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Placed in Standby Mode As Engineers Prepare to End Mission Operations
NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, has been placed in standby mode as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope’s launch. The spacecraft is scheduled to be decommissioned — taken out...
Counties with Thriving Small Businesses have Healthier Residents, LSU And Baylor Researchers Find
Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies with “absentee” owners,...
EASL Publishes First European Clinical Practice Guidelines for Wilson’s Disease
The first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson’s disease have been published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the EASL website — www.easl.eu. Developed to assist...
Mechanism of Calming Hyperactivity By Psychostimulant Drugs Identified
It has long been known that psychostimulant drugs have the paradoxical effect of reducing hyperactivity. [Psychostimulant drugs include methylphenidate – known by the trade names Ritalin, Concerta, and Methylin – and methamphetamine]. Since the mid-1950s,...
Snooki Releases Her First Facebook Game with Apps Genius Corp
Apps Genius Corp, a creator of social games and mobile applications, has released “Snooki’s Match Game,” a Facebook game developed on behalf of MTV Jersey Shore breakout star and New York Times bestselling author Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.
