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ENDANGERING the Pacific Ocean: Japanese proposal to dump radioactive water from disabled nuclear power plant gets APPROVAL
In December 2019, a government-appointed panel proposed that the best way to dispose of the radioactive water stored in Japan's disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant...
2 hours ago - Natural News
Validating Toolbox to evaluate cognitive processing in people with intellectual disability
Researchers have updated and validated a series of tests in the NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery. These tests, delivered on an iPad, can now be used to accurately assess cognitive...
3 hours ago - ScienceDaily
Diet quality and risk of frailty among older women in the Nurses' Health Study
ABSTRACTBackgroundThe frailty syndrome is associated with higher risk of disability and death after accounting for multimorbidity. Therefore, the determinants of frailty need...
11 hours ago - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - 2 articles
New disabilities are common among older people after hospitalization
Older adults often face new disabilities after a hospital stay for a serious illness. Among the problems they may need to adjust to are difficulties with bathing and dressing...
14 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Judge to hear plan to move virus patients to California city
A judge will hold a hearing about a proposal to house former cruise ship passengers infected with a new virus at a Southern California complex that used to be for people with...
22 hours ago - ABC News
Child characteristics and early intervention referral and receipt of services: a retrospective cohort study
Early Intervention is a federally mandated, state-administered system of care for children with developmental delays and disabilities under the age of three. Gaps exist in the...
22 hours ago - BMC
UK special school pupils 'treated differently', following removal of standardized assessments
Following the recent withdrawal of standardized assessments, children with intellectual disabilities at special schools in the UK are again being treated differently to...
1 day ago - ScienceDaily
Autism and Cognitive Impairment Linked
Mouse study identifies a brain mechanism underlying social deficits and mental disability in a finding that could lead to new autism treatments.
1 day ago - Medindia Health
Fairview Developmental Center near Los Angeles, where US govt. tried to house up to 50 infected coronavirus patients, has zero isolation rooms, no viral containment facilities and no training for BSL-4 biohazards
The Fairview Development Center in Costa Mesa, California, where the US government just tried to quietly house 35-50 infected coronavirus patients, is a state-run facility for...
1 day ago - Natural News
Deadly Kidney Cancer's Achilles' Heel Exposed
New protein is pivotal for progression of clear cell renal cell carcinomas and can be disabled by new experimental drug, revealed clinical trial results.
3 days ago - Medindia Health - 3 articles
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Finding cure for rare form of brain cancer in dogs may be key to treating...
A new study from Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Maine, has found that glioblastoma samples from canine patients were similar to the same tumors found in adults and...
New Bluetooth sensor can detect heart failure days before it happens
A trial of the patch, which is worn on the chest, found it accurately predicted the need for hospital treatment more than 80 per cent of the time. It was created by scientists...
Learning to Love my Body as a Black Woman Hasn't Been Easy . . . Here's What...
When I was 12 years old, I would stuff my jeans with clothes to make my butt look bigger. I was a black girl without a curve in her back and constantly shamed for it. It was...
Iran's deputy health minister diagnosed with coronavirus
Iraj Harirchi was taken into quarantine just a day after insisting that Iran's death toll was lower than feared in a sweaty appearance at a press conference.
World Health Organization chief is a Chinese puppet, STILL claiming there is...
One of the reasons why so many Americans have so little faith and trust in the United Nations and its various allied organizations is because they have so consistently worked...
Celebrities are beating cancer and avoiding opioids for pain relief by...
For many years, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation were promoted as the only effective options in the treatment of cancer. In recent years, however, an increasing number of...
Germany is looking to pass a bill that will require social media sites to...
Germany is looking to tighten the screws on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Last week, the country's ministers waved through a bill that will require social media companies to...
Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Worsening of Heart Failure Before...
An AI-based sensor can predict the worsening of heart failure days before hospitalization by instantly alerting doctors so that early treatment can be given. This could reduce...
Parents of Food-allergic Kids Advised Not To Pass Their Anxiety Down To Kids
Difficulties faced by parents of children with food allergies of not transferring their own anxieties to their children were briefly discussed by a group of allergists.
Tuberculosis Infection Activated Through New Cancer Treatment
Novel inhibitor treatments for cancer can activate tuberculosis in some patients, according to researchers.