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Vitals – Teen athletes often not screened for heart risks, study finds
By Linda Carroll Teen athletes at risk for sudden cardiac death may be falling through the cracks because doctors are skipping parts of screening exams, a new study shows. In pre-season physicals for...
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BBC News – Brain find sheds light on autism
Cells taken from people with a rare syndrome linked to autism could help explain the origins of the condition, scientists suggest. The Stanford University team turned skin cells from people with...
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New Autism Definition Could Exclude Many – ABC News
Proposed changes to the definition of autism might make it much harder for a person to be diagnosed with the disorder. The change would likely slow the rapidly increasing rate of autism diagnoses but...
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BBC News – Alzheimer’s brain plaques ‘rapidly cleared’ in mice
Destructive plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have been rapidly cleared by researchers testing a cancer drug on mice. Sections of Alzheimer's, left, and healthy brain tissue showing...
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Supreme Court begins debating sweeping health care law – CNN.com
Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday began three days of potentially landmark oral arguments over the constitutionality of the sweeping health care law championed by President Barack...
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Abington to host clinic for concussion testing
ABINGTON — Jeannine Donato’s life changed when she got a call two years ago that her youngest son Nolan was being rushed by ambulance to Children’s Hospital in Boston after being hit into the boards...
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Neuropsychological testing for concussions might not be panacea – ESPN
Concussions have become big business in the football world. With 1,700 players in the NFL, 66,000 in the college game, 1.1 million in high school and 250,000 more in Pop Warner, athletes and families...
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Md. man with Down syndrome who died in police custody loved law enforcement –...
By Theresa Vargas, Published: February 19 Fascinated with law enforcement, Robert Ethan Saylor would sometimes call 911 just to ask the dispatchers a question. He loved talking to police officers and...
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Study: Rates of many mental disorders much higher in soldiers
CNN The largest study of mental-health risk ever conducted among the U.S. military has found that many soldiers suffer from some form of mental illness, and rates of many of these disorders are much...
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Why do some survive Ebola? Sierra Leone study offers clues
An analysis of the first Ebola cases in Sierra Leone helps draw a clearer picture of why some people survive the disease, while others do not, including their age and the pace at which the virus...
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