In focus-group discussions with students at two high schools in the Netherlands, researchers found that the teens were generally aware that blasting an MP3 player could harm their hearing. Yet most said they usually played their own device at maximum volume and had no plans to change that.
Like many teenagers, the students often denied their [...]
Malcolm John Webster, 48, fled New Zealand in 1998 after his second wife, Felicity Drumm, was found to have been drugged. She was being treated for injuries from a car crash on the North Shore at the time.
Ten years later, Scottish police have reopened an investigation into the death of Websters first wife after forensic [...]
Worst of all, his diabetes and hypertension steadily, relentlessly, mercilessly attacked his kidneys. He went on dialysis in February.
Jones has fallen victim to a quiet epidemic plaguing black Chicago. By the thousands, African-Americans are suffering kidney failure and facing the possibility of blindness, limb amputation, life on dialysis and premature death. Patients with end-stage kidney [...]
As the Chicago meeting approaches, the three largest fertility clinics in the U.S. for the first time say they plan to endorse the concept of a registry, albeit on a restricted basis, said Dr. Charles Sims, medical officer of California Cryobank. The company has prepared a proposal with Xytex Corp. and Fairfax Cryobank.
He said executives [...]
With an eight-hour surgery looming–she has endured more than 40 so far–she’s simply hoping that she will be able to fulfill concert dates that were booked a year or more in advance. She’s also praying that an incurable but now-dormant bone infection, which she contracted the day of the accident, doesn’t reawaken, because it could [...]
When you’re born with cerebral palsy, you have to battle constantly against the low expectations of others. When you’re black and in a wheelchair, you have to combat the assumption that you are a victim of gang violence. When you’re whip-smart in ways that the world may not see, you have to make the [...]
But new research suggests that ordinary children can benefit from play that gives a mental workout to their faculties of “executive control,” as psychologists call it. One study from last November found that preschool-age kids who spent most of their school hours playing games designed to improve self-control scored better than other kids on a [...]
Not surprisingly, twenty- and thirtysomethings have the highest rate of uninsureds compared with other age groups. In addition to being dropped from a parent’s policy, many young adults scoff at the idea of adding another bill to a burgeoning list of monthly expenses. Young and healthy, there may not seem to be a need for [...]
The bare-knuckle fights are attracting competitors as young as 6 whose parents treat the sport as casually as wrestling, Little League or soccer. The changes were evident on a recent evening in southwest Missouri, where a team of several young boys and one girl grappled on gym mats in a converted garage. Two members [...]
“A sister will know just what to say to cheer her sister up and just what to say to flood her with self-doubt,” said Terri Apter, a University of Cambridge psychologist and the author of “The Sister Knot.”
Parents like to hope that their children will form a close bond that lasts into adulthood. [...]
