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Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. However, the study also found that bilinguals are slower to acquire vocabulary than are monolinguals, because bilinguals must divide their time between two languages while monolinguals focus on only one.
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In Ohio, the videographer Doctor Anonymous hits airwaves with his local CBS affiliate to talk about immunizations.
It's amazing what has happened in the U.S. over the last 15 years. With the food and healthcare industries focused on profits, obesity-associated conditions today include heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, gall stones and osteoarthritis.
Jacqueline posts a warning about top 50 or top 100 health lists – some may not be as innocent as they seem. Linker beware!
Michael Waskom describes a study that imaged brain activity in an attempt to understand why people have trouble doing more than a single thing at once.
How has medical research changed your life? PARADE magazine lists a number of breakthroughs from NIH-funded research.
PLoS Currents is a new and experimental website for the rapid communication of research results and ideas. The first research theme: influenza.
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