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Could kids' thumb-sucking, nail-biting offer benefits?

10 years 2 months ago
Thumb-sucking and nail-biting can cause health problems for kids and potential financial problems for parents paying for braces. Thumb-sucking can interfere with the alignment of children's teeth and nail-biting can increase the risk of spreading harmful germs from their fingers to their mouths.

Utah resident is first Zika-related death in continental U.S.

10 years 2 months ago
Utah health officials said Friday that the death of an elderly patient at the end of June was related to the Zika virus, the first Zika-related death in the continental United States. The unidentified resident of Salt Lake County had traveled to an undisclosed destination where the virus is circulating.

FDA halts cancer immunotherapy trial after 3 patient deaths

10 years 2 months ago
Following two patient deaths last week and another earlier this year, Juno Therapeutics announced Thursday that it is putting its "ROCKET" trial on clinical hold, at the direction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The patients enrolled in this Phase II trial are adults with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to the biopharmaceutical company's website.

How having kids can ruin your romantic relationship

10 years 2 months ago
Lots of women look forward to motherhood -- getting to know a tiny baby, raising a growing child, developing a relationship with a maturing son or daughter. All over the world, people believe that parenting is the most rewarding part of life. And it's good that so many mothers treasure that bond with their child, because the transition to parenthood causes profound changes in a woman's marriage and her overall happiness... and not for the better.

Sanofi Pasteur joins race to create a Zika vaccine

10 years 2 months ago
Sanofi Pasteur and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are joining forces to develop an inoculation against the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne infection that can cause birth defects and other neurological deficits. Sanofi announced the research agreement Wednesday.

Do hot climates make people more violent?

10 years 2 months ago
One of the uncomfortable facts of life is that some countries — and within the U.S., some states — are more violent than others. Figuring out what makes societies and communities more violent is a big-time quest for social scientists, since if you know what leads to killing, you'll have a better shot at defusing it. Drawing on a host of studies, a new paper (PDF) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- lead-authored by Paul A. M. Van Lange of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam -- proposes a model for understanding violence with the only somewhat forced-sounding acronym CLASH, short for CLimate, Aggression, and Self-control in Humans.
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