Month: November 2021

Stress affects the body in a lot of ways, including the ability to conceive. Sadly, stress tends to accumulate after months of trying to become pregnant unsuccessfully, which can make the whole situation of getting pregnant more difficult to overcome. A lot of couples become emotionally distraught when they are dealing with fertility issues. These
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Image: iStock IN THIS ARTICLE Achild with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has a shorter attention span, which could hinder their day-to-day activities. Therefore, after-school activities that can enhance their attentive skills are valuable. In addition, these activities may also help them drain their extra energy and channel it better. Here, we bring activities for
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Image: Shutterstock IN THIS ARTICLE Congenital hypothyroidism is an endocrine disorder wherein the baby’s thyroid gland does not produce thyroid hormones or makes very little of them. The baby has an under-functioning thyroid gland at birth, hence the term, congenital. The condition is also called neonatal hypothyroidism. Newborns are routinely screened for the disorder before
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Researchers at Yale University analyzing specialized MRI exams found significant changes in the microstructure of the brain’s white matter in adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to a control group, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The changes
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As parents, we all deal with distractions in our children’s lives. Dr. Dehra Harris explains how to get your child’s attention when distractions are present. Dr. Harris, a Pediatric Psychiatrist with Washington University at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, points out that there are many different factors competing for our children’s attention. As much as parents
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Image: Shutterstock Education and knowledge are much more than just learning how to read and write. It is about building an opinion, gaining resourceful information, and implementing it in everyday life. The process of learning involves registering relevant information, organizing it with cognition, and adding it to the existing knowledge activated through long-term memory (1).
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Quarraisha Abdool Karim has spent the past three decades studying HIV and AIDS. She has become one of the world’s leading epidemiologists and made major contributions to the global understanding of how HIV affects young women. As associate scientific director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Abdool Karim
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The perception of gender in children’s voices is of special interest to researchers, because voices of young boys and girls are very similar before the age of puberty. Adult male and female voices are often quite different acoustically, making gender identification fairly easy. Gender perception is much more complicated in children because gender differences in
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