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2-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Sarah Mandellsmandell@srcd.org 202-289-7903Society for Research in Child Development Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically...

2-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Jim Sliwajsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297American Society for Microbiology The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island over...

2-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Madeline Fishermfisher@sciencesocieties.org 608-268-3973American Society of Agronomy In many ways, the evolution of Chinese agriculture over the past 40 years is a remarkable success story. Spurred by investments...

2-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Eleanor Cowieeleanor.cowie@ed.ac.uk 131-650-6382University of Edinburgh Uni of Edinburgh Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s could be better understood thanks to insight into proteins linked to such...

2-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Eleanor Cowieeleanor.cowie@ed.ac.uk 131-650-6382University of Edinburgh Uni of Edinburgh Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s could be better understood thanks to insight into proteins linked to such...

2-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Scott Sleekssleek@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300Association for Psychological Science Teenagers are famously self-conscious, acutely aware and concerned about what their peers think of them. A new study...

This last month marks the first anniversary of two very important milestones in my career in medicine: I began training as a physician and started writing about medicine. Although perhaps not equally as demanding, both of these new activities in my life…...

If you’ve even been on the receiving end of a terminal diagnosis or watched someone struggle with a serious illness, then you know about the identity crisis that strikes when someone becomes sick. Like patients, caregivers too must cope with forces that...

A spokesman in London said that GlaxoSmithKline was unaware of the nature of the investigation but that the company’s executives were cooperating. Two weeks ago, the company fired the head of its research and development staff in Shanghai for misrepresenting...

1 July 2013 Last updated at 20:39 ET By Ruth Alexander BBC News Thousands of elderly people are missing. The last UK census found far… Source: Where are the missing 90-year-olds?