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What’s Stopping Disabled Children from Reaching Their Potential?

Disability is a reality that people, more specifically children, face everyday. And it does help if there are people around them that they can count on. However, those exact people who are trying to help them and those who are walking on eggshells around them might be stopping them from reaching their potentials.

Another Face in the Crowd: Science of Face Recognition

People get to meet a new friend or acquaintance each day in their everyday lives. But remembering them can be a whole different story because trying to recall someone's name and trying to recognize their face can be a difficult social issue. It's a common fact that people tend to forget faces, and this failure to recognize a face can lead to the embarrassing question: "Do I know you?"
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Easing into Postpartum Sex

Most women don't feel very keen on sex for at least a few weeks after childbirth and the main reason for this is simply exhaustion. If the delivery was long or difficult, the woman may also feel anxious about getting pregnant again.

Top 10 Tips on prevention of sports injury

Identify the risk factors associated with injury, and modifying them where possible, it should also be possible to decrease an individual's total injury risk, by increasing dynamic stability and the joint's ability to withstand untoward force.

Obama: We Can Defeat AIDS

More than 30 years after its was formally recognised as a deadly pandemic and following millions of lives it claimed along the way, AIDS, according to U.S. President Barack Obama can be overcome by the collective efforts of mankind.

Younger Japanese Turn to Farming as a New Career

The end of the job-for-life tradition in Japan has led the new generation to search for what they really want to do and for some, this has led them back to farming and a life their grandparents once had.

Hospital Irony: How Foods in Hospitals are Unhealthy

Hospitals is where people go to when they are feeling sick, that's a given. But no one really considers the food of the institution when they "check-in." The food the hospitals offer has been painted with infamy for the longest time, with some questioning its quality, edibility, and taste, the most basic of questions that should be ask is: "Is it healthy?"

BioPrinting: Replace Your Organs, Bones with an Inkjet Printer

Welcome to the new world of bioprinting where bones and organs can be grown and produced with a 3D inkjet printer. Although it sounds like something straight out of science fiction doctors and researchers have been developing and perfecting this technique that soon patients could replace their sick organs with manufactured ones.

Study: PC’s Active Wi-Fi Harms Male Sperm

A computer with a wireless Internet connection can reduce sperm quality, not because of heat on a user’s lap as commonly believed, but because of radiation, a new study published on MyHealthNewsDaily suggests.

President Obama has Brandon Jennings' New Shoes

Though the NBA lockout ended this weekend, there are still things that have stirred the pot post lockout. Case in point: a reporter asked President Barrack Obama about his thoughts on the deal that was cut.

Homeless and HIV-Positive in Atlanta: Crystal’s Story

Crystal, like countless others, is fixed in a succession of addiction, homelessness and disease. Getting HIV through selling sex in order to have the money to more drugs is much more common than many of us would like to think.

8 Style Tips for the Holiday Season

Once the holiday season starts, there's no stopping it. Invites upon invites to holiday parties start pouring in and before you know it, you're faced with the perpetual sartorial question: what are you going to wear?

Lesson About the Heart: How Women Are More At Risk for Cardiac Events

Heart attacks can happen to almost anyone, that means any gender, age, or even sex. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. But if the disease can strike on anyone, why are women more at risk than men?

CHOICE argues on serving size findings

Differences in recommended serving sizes on like-for-like Australian food products are making it “near impossible” for shoppers to compare the nutritional content of the products, according to new research by Sydney-based medical research body, The George Institute.

Violent Games Affect the Brain

Beautiful graphics, realistic sounds, story plots that can leave a person hanging - these are just some things that can hook an individual to play video games all day. But aside from getting entertained and getting involved in the game, do people really know what they're getting themselves into?

Eating Fish: Improves Body and Mind

There is an expression that people say: "If wishes were fishes, the world will be an ocean." But more importantly, if wishes were fishes, then the world would have a lot of healthier people - this is because eating fish is good for the body, but not only that, it's also good for the mind. Though eating fish is only popular for those who are going on a diet, those humble sea creatures can serve a plate-full of benefits.

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