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Parents who emphasize vowels and different sounds within words, are much more likely to help their children’s language development.

A recent study of Google queries suggests that the recent recession makes people feel physically ill.

People may be using the internet in order to cope with the demands of excessive work, and this coping strategy is not restricted to the young.

Recording goals in a fitness diary, reflecting on the successes and failures and being held to account by others are some of the key strategies that have been found to maximise the achievement of goals to get fit.

They went boating alone without life vests and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees.And although they were only figments of a writer’s imagination, the fictional adventurers helped provide new insight into how humans, especially men,…

Nurses can suffer because of the requirement to display compassion at all times, new research indicates.

A new neuroscience study sheds light on the biological underpinnings of obesity. The study reveals how a protein in the brain helps regulate food intake and body weight. The findings create a potential new avenue for the treatment of obesity and may he…

Extended treatment with the smoking cessation drug varenicline significantly improved the ability of individuals with serious mental illness to maintain abstinence from tobacco after a standard 12-week course of treatment.

Human factors/ergonomics researchers have long studied the connection between cognitive function and the ability to perform well on multiple simultaneous tasks, and recently a group of neuroergonomics researchers went a step further to examine a geneti…