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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...
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,...
Zinc Control Could be Path to Breast Cancer Treatment
The body’s control mechanisms for delivering zinc to cells could be key to improving treatment for some types of aggressive breast cancer. New research by Cardiff University and King’s College London has identified the switch which releases...
Independent Record Companies are Committed to Innovation
A study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid analyzes, for the first time, the independent label sector in Spain. It describes both the wide range of activities and strategies that these firms use, and their presence in new networks...
