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Newswise - Mom's Mood Matters in Child's Asthma Care - Depression is significant among mothers of chronically ill children.

ROCKLAND : Tired of forgetting where you put your car keys? Or blanking out on the name of the movie you saw last week? You can do something about it: Take up ballroom dancing! After decades of accepting the notion that humans have little control over age-related memory decline, researchers now say the process is not predetermined.

I vividly recall the coy smile of one of the senior inpatient attending psychiatrists during a morning report as one of the junior residents, presenting a newly admitted patient diagnosed with schizophrenia, was asked to discuss the disorder's etiology and began to recite the latest neuroimaging findings and candidate gene linkage studies.

Stem cell researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Stanford Medical School have joined a new national consortium linking teams of scientists who normally work independently with other groups that seek to discover new therapies for varied human disorders.

A gonorrhea medicine used since the 1930s has shown an ability to halt the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors, scientists in Maryland say.

In "The Squid and the Whale," playing the older adolescent son of an estranged intellectual couple, and in "Adventureland," playing a recent college grad and aspiring travel writer, spinning his wheels and falling in love at a summer job in an amusement park, Eisenberg was equally potent playing fecklessness or sincerity, and better yet when he ...

Karzai Government Corruption Hobbles Obama Afghan War Strategy Interview with Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst, conducted by Scott Harris In a blow to Washington's efforts to restore credibility to a tainted election process, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main challenger dropped out of the presidential run off election scheduled for Nov.

Several hundred people gathered in the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center at Johns Hopkins University Nov.

Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine.

That's the assessment of Daniel Romo, a Texas A&M chemistry professor, and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University who are pioneers in research involving this novel marine natural product.

Friends and family are saying good-bye to a promising young student killed last month at Johns Hopkins University.

A judge revoked Thomas Meighan Jr.'s $100,000 bail - associated with July hit-and-run charges - on Monday, saying the 39-year-old, who has at least nine drunken driving convictions and is linked to a college student's death, is a "serious danger" to himself and the community.

The Johns Hopkins University passed itself off as Harvard in a movie Monday without feeling the least bit flattered.

Before Thomas Meighan Jr.'s name was ever connected in the fatal hit-and-run of a Johns Hopkins student, his actions and correspondence to the courts showed a pattern of self-destruction and deceit According to witness accounts, after striking Miriam Frankl, a white truck traveling north on the service drive of the 3500 block of St.

To address the seemingly intractable problem of fatalities related to drunken or impaired driving in Maryland, the General Assembly convened a task force to review what some advocates had long complained were inadequate laws.

James Dcane, a design engineer at Anthrotronix in Silver Spring, controls the CosmoBot robot with the AcceleGlove through hand movements and gestures.

Main Category: Schizophrenia Also Included In: Genetics ; Autism Article Date: 27 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully "rescue" animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and ...

ISLAMABAD: Home-based electrical stimulation of thigh muscles can improve strength and physical performance in people with osteoarthritis of the knee.

A city police officer working overtime security for Johns Hopkins University in North Baltimore arrested four teenagers on East University Parkway early today on charges that they vandalized three cars and a garage by spray-painting them.

Cholesterol and Cancer: Answers and Some New Questions Study shows low cholesterol as a symptom of cancer rather than a cause.