Top English psychologist Dr. Aric Sigman said we must prevent children under three from watching television or risk irreversibly damaging the ir health, the Daily Mail reported. About 80 percent of brain development happens before we are three, and s...
Both the bully and the victim's individual characteristics, rather than the wider social environment, explain why bullying（恃强凌弱） occurs, according to Swedish teenagers. The new study, by Dr. Robert Thornberg and Sven Knutsen from Linkping...
Elderly patients with kidney failure get kidney transplants more often than they did a decade ago, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology（肾脏学） (CJASN). The results s...
In a report published in the Oct. 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center say animal and human data suggest gene therapy to the brain may be able to treat patients with maj...
Before Alzheimer's patients experience memory loss, the brain's neurons（神经原，神经细胞） have already suffered harm for years. A new study in mouse models by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center has found that the brain's mi...
After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom（幻觉的，幽灵的） limb the vivid illusion that the amputated（截肢） arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar...
Atrial fibrillation（心房颤动） is a heart disorder that affects more than two million Americans, and is considered a key contributor to blood clots（血栓） and stroke. Now researchers from North Carolina State University are developing a n...
Videoconferences（可视会议） may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia（麻醉） achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patient...
Much of the world's electronic waste is being shipped to China for recycling and the cottage industry（家庭手工业） that has sprung up there to recover usable materials from computers, cell phones, televisions and other goods may be creating s...
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, both in Ann Arbor, have identified geographic variation（地理性变化） as a key factor accounting for disparities（不同，不一致） in access to liver...
