Early Intervention Very Effective For Toddlers With Autism, Small Study

Monday, November 30th, 2009

A small US study involving toddlers diagnosed with autism, some as as young as 18 months old, showed that intensive early intervention delivered by trained specialists and parents was very effective and improved IQ, social interaction and language ability. The five year study was based at the ...

Information Field Theory Enables Astronomers, Medical Practitioners And Geologists To Look Into Places Where Their Measuring Instruments Are Blind

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with ...

Synexus Leads The Way In South Africa With Vital Paediatric Vaccines Trial

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

UK-based Synexus, the world's largest multi-national company dedicated to the recruitment and running of clinical trials, recruited the highest number of patients to the South African study investigating a paediatric vaccine against rotavirus. The company recruited more than 2000 children aged between 5 and 10 weeks in ...

Opiate Painkillers May Encourage Spread Of Cancer

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

New research from the US adds weight to the growing body of evidence that opiate-based painkillers like morphine, which has been used to treat postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two hundred years, encourage cancer cells to grow and spread. If confirmed with clinical studies, these findings ...