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Unique 'listening' technology tackles widespread fraud issues

Alaris, a joint venture startup company between ASU and Rolls-Royce, aims to tackle health care insurance fraud that is estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion each year. This partnership was ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Generation Squeezed': Today's family staggering under the pressure

Canadian parents today are raising families with less money and time than the Baby Boomer generation even though the country's economy has doubled in size since 1976, says a new study released at the University of Saskatchewan ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Mom goes back to work, family OK

Easing the maternal guilt associated with mothers returning to work, University at Albany health economist Pinka Chatterji and co-researchers Sara Markowitz and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn recently released the results of a study ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Learning through unstructured play helps kids develop

Roughhousing, or tossing your children around on purpose, can be a hard sell to many parents. We worry our kids will get hurt. We don't want rowdy behavior carrying over into the classroom, especially in schools with no-touching ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Youth with IBD are less fit than their peers: study

Children and adolescents growing up with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are less fit than their peers, says a study by researchers at McMaster University and the McMaster Children's Hospital.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Society may be willing to pay a high price to prevent child abuse and neglect, study suggests

The amount the public will pay to prevent the death of a child may be twice that of an adult, according to a new University of Georgia study that asked 199 individuals how much they would pay to prevent a death from child ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New approach suggested for monitoring child health in developing countries

In a paper published in the January issue of the journal Economics and Human Biology, a team of applied economists including William A. Masters, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drinking problems in women linked to childhood sexual, physical abuse

Women who suffered sexual or physical abuse as children are more likely to abuse alcohol than are others, according to a new study of 3,680 women.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lead poisoning maps in R.I. reveal huge disparities, guide cleanup

The rate at which lead poisoning has struck young Rhode Island children depends heavily on where they live, according to a Brown University-led geographic analysis of comprehensive health department data from across Rhode ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In-country OB/GYN training programs contributed to retention of doctors in Ghana, study shows

Ghanaian Obstetrics and Gynecology residents say in-country training programs contributed to their decision to remain in their home country to practice medicine, new University of Michigan research shows.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking during pregnancy may harm the child's motor control and coordination

Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of adversely affecting their children’s coordination and physical control according to a new study from Orebro University, Sweden, published in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rising education levels among women save children's lives worldwide

Women are advancing further in school than at any time in recent history, a trend that is having a tremendous impact on child mortality, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Development aid for maternal, newborn and child health doubled over 5 years

Health experts will today call for a greater prioritization and targeting of aid to save the lives of mothers, newborns, and children in poor countries.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sad mothers have small babies

Clinical depression and anxiety during pregnancy results in smaller babies that are more likely to die in infancy, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, which focuse ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

International formula milk marketing code mired in 3 decades of dispute

An international marketing code for formula milk, intended to foster global cooperation among governments, industry, and aid agencies, has instead been mired in three decades of often bitter dispute, claims a child nutrition ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0