WASHINGTON: Stuttering, a speech problem that stigmatizes millions worldwide and has stumped scientists for centuries, could be caused by defects in three genes, a landmark study showed this week. “People have speculated about the cause of stuttering for thousands of years and finally, we know at least some of the cause,” Dennis Drayna, a geneticist [...]
WASHINGTON: Being obese as a child increases the risk of dying before you reach 55, says a study published Wednesday, a day after US First Lady Michelle Obama launched a program to fight childhood obesity amid warnings it is shortening lives. Out of 4,857 non-diabetic Native American children aged five to 20 who took part [...]
New research from the US suggests that the brain uses separate pathways to process the start and the end of sounds, a discovery that could change our ideas about how we hear and understand speech and lead to improvements in how we help children with speech and hearing problems and the design of hearing aids. [...]
Electronic cigarettes should be evaluated, regulated, labeled and packaged in a manner consistent with cartridge content and product effect even if that effect is a total failure to deliver nicotine as demonstrated in a study supported by the National Cancer Institute and led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. The research was published in the [...]
MELBOURNE: Australian researchers Wednesday said a new study supported the use of lap-band surgery for severely overweight teenagers after it found the procedure helped them lose 80 percent of their excess fat. The study, conducted at Monash University and the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, showed dramatically better results among adolescents who had the surgery, [...]
