Despite substantial gains in knowledge and understanding of autism over the last three years, we are still no closer to either prevention or cure, according to Sir Michael Rutter, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychi…
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Guidelines and reality
Whether doctors have knowledge of guidelines or not appears to be unsuitable as an indicator of how guidelines are being put into practice in the clinical routine.
Taking the case of treatment by primary care physicians of three target diseases -…
To increase physical activity, focus on how, not why
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Most people know that exercise is important to maintain and improve health; however, sedentary lifestyles and obesity rates are at all-time highs and have become major national issues. In a new study, University of Missouri res…
Archaeologists find hidden African side to noted 1780s Md. building
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — One of North America’s most famous Revolutionary-era buildings — a lone-surviving testament to an Enlightenment ideal — has a hidden West African face, University of Maryland archaeologists have discovered.
Their exca…
Powerful new ways to electronically mine research may lead to scientific breakthroughs
The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metaknowledge — the study of knowledge itself.
The new p…
Immersive data collection, peer networks among key elements of effective watershed councils
Community watershed councils can establish a social infrastructure that facilitates successful science-based management by participating in data collection and forming neighborhood peer networks, according to a study from the U.S. Forest Servi…
UT study finds business school research raises students’ salaries
The value of academic research performed at business schools has been questioned for the past two decades, some even calling it irrelevant to the real business world.
But a study by Russell Crook, assistant professor of management in the College…
Treating fractures: Children are not miniature adults
Treating fractures in children requires special knowledge of growth physiology. Incorrect treatment of bone fractures in child and adolescent patients is less often caused by technical deficiencies than by a misjudgment of the special conditions in …
New survey device gets better information on teenage sexual behavior
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University sociologists have developed a device to gather more reliable data about risky sexual behavior among Ethiopian teenagers and young adults than conventional face-to-face interviews can produc…
Rural library outreach a new initiative in ‘free-choice learning’ movement
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Rural and small town libraries are one of the newest forces being tapped to improve the science literacy of Americans through lifelong, “free-choice learning” opportunities in which people learn scientific, engineering and tec…
Parents should talk about math early and often with their children
The amount of time parents spend talking about numbers has a much bigger impact on how young children learn mathematics than was previously known, researchers at the University of Chicago have found.
For example, children whose parents ta…
Informatics = essential MD competency
In an article published in the Sept. 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), author Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, points out that although information underlies all clinical work, and despite the growing role th…
Fla. med student study reveals disparity of skin cancer knowledge — Ben-Gurion U. study
MIAMI — September 14, 2010 –There is a significant disparity between knowledge and attitudes on the dangers of skin cancer among male and female medical students in Florida according to a new study by a joint team of researchers from Ben-Gurion Un…
Lack of trust in hospitals a major deterrent for blood donation among African-Americans
Disparities in healthcare between races exist in the United States. A new study published in the journal Transfusion explores why African Americans donate blood at lower rates than whites. The findings reveal that there is a significant distrust in …
Education more important than knowledge in stopping spread of HIV in Africa
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Simply teaching people the facts about how to protect themselves from HIV may not be enough to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that villagers in Ghana who had higher levels of cognit…
Ocean policies haven’t kept up with science
Scientific knowledge about the oceans has increased tremendously in the last quarter century but U.S. policy for managing its territorial waters has lagged far behind the science, experts say, leading to resource depletion, pollution, habitat destruction and political polarization. Recommendations by the Pew Oceans Commission released today (June 4) are the first step toward addressing the disparity between growing scientific knowledge and outdated national policies and practices, says Jane Lubchenco, an Oregon State University professor and one of the commission’s lead scientists.