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Researchers turn to Yelp reviews to learn how patients with addiction rate their treatment

23.12.2019 Health Problems

As the opioid crisis has worsened, addiction treatment programs have proliferated—but there’s no standardized way to rate those programs, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania note in a new study. So they turned to Yelp. The popular online review site is best-known for its restaurant ratings. But it’s also become a clearinghouse for people to rate just about anything—including addiction […]

Researchers learn how Ebola virus disables the body’s immune defenses

24.10.2019 Health Problems

A new study by researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston uncovered new information on why the Ebola virus can exert such catastrophic effects on the infected person. They’ve described for the first time how the virus disables T cells, an important line of immune defense, thus rendering the infected person less able to combat the infection. […]

Can games and apps help your kids learn?

17.04.2019 Kids Health

(HealthDay)—Leading health organizations are warning about the possibility of video game addiction. The World Health Organization has included it in the latest edition of its reference book of health disorders, while the American Psychiatric Association’s book offers warning signs but does not yet list it as an addiction. So parents might wonder whether any gaming is safe for their kids. […]

Depression 101: Dallas schoolkids learn about mental health

10.02.2019 Health Problems

In a scenario playing out in more and more classrooms around the world, a Dallas teenager recently asked her classmate if anything was wrong, noting that she hadn’t been acting like herself. The brusque reply: “Just leave me alone.” The ninth-graders at the Uplift Hampton Preparatory school were role-playing as part of a program that aims to teach teens how […]

Researchers factoring in how children learn mathematics

06.02.2019 Health Problems

What is 72 multiplied by 12? While fourth-graders will focus on arriving at the correct answer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher Carrie Clark wants to know what happens in the brain as they learn to solve the problem. Clark, assistant professor of educational psychology, is using functional MRI technology to capture brain activity while children learn mathematics. Housed at the Nebraska […]

Making mistakes while studying actually helps you learn better

11.06.2018 Health Problems

When learning something new, there are instances where trial and error helps rather than hinders, according to recent findings by Baycrest researchers. Contrary to popular belief, when a person makes a mistake while learning, it improves their memory for the right information, but only if the error is close to the correct answer, according to a study published in the […]

Young toddlers may learn more from interactive than noninteractive media

22.05.2018 Kids Health

Preschoolers can learn a lot from educational television, but younger toddlers may learn more from interactive digital media (such as video chats and touchscreen mobile apps) than from TV and videos alone, which don’t require them to interact. That’s the conclusion of a new article that also notes that because specific conditions that lead to learning from media are unclear, […]

Important Lessons We Can Learn from Our Parents’ Heart Health

05.05.2018 Family Health

The more things change, the more they remain the same. This statement couldn’t be truer when talking about heart health issues over the years. In the 60’s and 70’s, there was a major smoking issue among adults. In contemporary times, with all the knowledge we’ve amassed on the dangers of smoking and the essence of working out, we still suffer […]

Three-month-old infants can learn abstract relations before language comprehension

04.04.2018 Health Problems

Three-month-old babies cannot understand words and are just learning to roll over, yet they are already capable of learning abstract relations. In a new study, Northwestern University researchers show for the first time that 3-month-old infants can learn same and different relations. “Recent theories have suggested that humans’ fluency in relational learning—our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or […]