Autistic Adults Have Unreliable Neural R…
September 19, 2012 by New York University
Autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory, and touch stimuli This poor response reliability, the study’s authors conclude, appears to be a fundamental neural characteristic of autism. “We are not suggesting that unreliable sensory —...
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
December 26, 2011 by Todd Edwards
A Founder of Protein Crystallography Scientific biographers do not, in general, find much correlation between good character and great science. There are a few exceptions. Historians have unanimously agreed, for example, that Charles Darwin was a particularly...
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Guidelines for the Screening and Treatme…
September 29, 2012 by Moffitt Cancer Center
New potential tools Julio M. Pow-Sang, M.D., chair of Moffitt Cancer Center's Department of Genitourinary Oncology, and colleagues have published two prostate cancer articles in the September issue of JNCCN -- The Journal of the National Comprehensive...
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"Never Events" Might Lead to …
July 31, 2011 by Brian S. Parsley, MD
The efforts to decrease the incidence of preventable errors in medical treatment The efforts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Federal Government to improve the quality of healthcare and decrease the incidence of preventable...
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Dr. Lucille Teasdale - Canadian Woman Su…
December 24, 2011 by Library and Archives Canada
Dr. Lucille Teasdale was one of the first women in Quebec to become a surgeon She spent 35 years in northern Uganda, where she and her husband, Dr. Piero Corti, built one of the most modern and...
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Meditation Strengthens the Brain
March 13, 2012 by Mark Wheeler
Meditation strengthens the connections between brain cells Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now a further report by UCLA...
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