Columbus Children’s Hospital - Football, one of the most popular sports in the United States, is also the leading cause of sports-related injuries. During the 2005-06 season, high school football players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally. A study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) at Columbus […]

University of Rochester - Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gesturers to remember what they’ve learned. In today’s issue of the journal Cognition, a University of Rochester scientist suggests it’s possible to help children learn difficult concepts by providing gestures as an additional and potent avenue […]

American Academy of Neurology - People who spent more time in the sun as children may have a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) than people who had less sun exposure during childhood, according to a study published in the July 24, 2007 issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of […]

High mercury blood levels in 25 percent of NYC adults and nearly half of Asian New Yorkers, likely from eating too much fish high in mercury.
NYC.gov - A quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels, according to survey results released June 23, 2007 by the Health Department, and the elevations are closely […]

Newswise - Very young babies are vulnerable to sudden death, when seated, warns a study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, one of the British Medical Journals.
Babies less than a month old are most at risk, the research indicates.
The researchers base their findings on an analysis of all sudden unexpected […]

British Journal of Sports Medicine - Intensive training given to young elite tennis players damages their lumber spines often and to a surprising degree, according to recent MRI research involving asymptomatic adolescent tennis players.
All the tennis players were aged between 16 and 23 and were attending a national tennis center. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans […]