Thursday 28 March 2019

Study: Kids With Autism Can Read Mom's Face

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Studying kids who have varying social and emotional processing skills may help identify the types of social situations that are more challenging for children with autism, the researchers said.



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Brain Stimulation May Soothe Severe Depression

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The treatments included electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), magnetic seizure therapy, and transcranial direct current stimulation.



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Medical Advance: Blood Vessels Grown in Lab

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Reseachers expect that once the lab-grown vessel is implanted, the patient's own cells will gradually populate it, making it similar to the body's native blood vessels.



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Traumatic Event Can Stick for Kids, Lead to PTSD

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Researchers wanted to find out more about why some children have significant traumatic stress symptoms in the days and weeks after a trauma and while others do not, and importantly -- why some recover well without treatment, while others go on to have more persistent problems.



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2-Way HIV Positive Kidney Transplant Reported

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A 35-year-old Atlanta woman who contracted HIV as a newborn offered one of her kidneys to an HIV-positive stranger, and doctors at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine performed the procedure on Monday.



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