Stress of poverty may last a lifetime

The stresses of poverty -- measured via stress hormones -- leads to impaired learning ability in children and may last a lifetime, U.S. researchers say.Clancy Blair of New York University said high levels of stress hormones influence the developing circuitry of children‘s brains, inhibiting such higher cognitive functions such as planning, impulse and emotional control, and attention known as executive function.Poverty stress resulting from crowded conditions, financial worry, a lack of adequate

Aug. 29, 2012

Save sports drinks for sports or exercise

Sports drinks shouldn't take the place of regular water intake unless a person is playing sports or exercising, a U.S. registered dietitian says. Brooke Schantz, a Loyola University Health System registered dietitian and certified specialist in sports dietetics, said sports drinks will help hydrate you, but the average healthy child, adolescent and adult doesn't need the extra carbohydrates and ca

Aug. 29, 2012

Samsung moves to counter Apple’s injunction

Apple has filed a sales injunction on eight old smartphone models of Samsung Electronics to a U.S. federal court in San Jose, California, where a nine-member jury gave a verdict in favor of their local tech company.The eight are: Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S2 (AT&T), Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile), Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail.Its sales ban request did not include Samsung’s latest flagship Galaxy S3 and tablet smartphone Galaxy Note.Apple’s move has largely bee

Aug. 28, 2012

Second person dies of hantavirus after Yosemite visit

Yosemite National Park officials say a second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting the park earlier this summer.Spokesman Scott Gediman says health officials this weekend learned of a second death of a person who contracted hantavirus after visiting the park in June.There is one other confirmed case of the illness, and a fourth is being investigated.Park officials are war

Aug. 28, 2012

Apple seeks sales ban on Samsung's eight products

Emboldened by a triumph in the first round of a U.S. patent suit against Samsung, Apple made a formal request Monday to a U.S. federal judge to ban the sales of eight products of the South Korean firm.Those are Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S2 AT&T, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 T-Mobile, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail, according to a list submitted to the Northern District Cou

Aug. 28, 2012

Samsung-Apple patent case leads to motion filing

Questions arise over fairness of verdict in less than three daysThe latest verdict in favor of Apple by a nine-member jury at a U.S. federal court in San Jose, California, will lead Samsung Electronics to file a motion that it hopes will alter the course of the ongoing dispute between the two tech giants.The Korean company will take the next step of motion filing to re-address its arguments and ask the court to reconsider its points, which it believes have not been fully reflected in this trial,

Aug. 27, 2012

Psychological interventions help skin

Psychological interventions can provide benefits to patients with skin conditions such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, researchers in Britain said. Researchers at the University of Sheffield, England, conducted a meta-analysis of 22 studies involving more than 900 participants. The meta-analysis, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, found psychological interventions had a medium-sized effect on skin conditions but that a number of different factors influenced the effectiveness of

Aug. 27, 2012

Apple-Samsung patent war set to continue

U.S. tech giant to file injunction, Samsung says U.S. verdict is ‘not the final word’Apple is setting the next stage of its patent battle against Samsung Electronics by filing sales injunctions against the Korean tech giant’s flagship Galaxy smartphones in the U.S., following a court ruling in favor of the U.S. tech giant.A federal court in San Jose, California near Apple’s headquarters ruled that Samsung infringed on patents for several technology features and designs of Apple’s iPhone and iPad

Aug. 26, 2012

‘Turkey the birthplace of Hindi, English’

CHICAGO (AFP) ― Could the word for mother prove that Turkey was the birthplace of hundreds of languages as diverse as Hindi, Russian, Dutch, Albanian, Italian and English?Researchers using a complex computer model originally designed to map epidemics have traced the evolution of the Indo-European language family to find an answer in a study published Tuesday in the journal Science.Similarities between hundreds of languages spoken from Iceland to India have led to hot debates over where they orig

Aug. 26, 2012

Local team develops cancer specific, trackable drug delivery system

A local team of scientists has developed a method of delivering drugs specifically to cancer cells, and to monitor the delivery and absorption of the drugs, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Thursday.In the team led by professors Kim Jong-seung of Korea University and Kang Chul-hoon of Kyung Hee University, the scientists linked the anti-cancer compound camptothecin to a compoung called RGD. The team also attached a fluorescent marker to the compound, enabling tracking of th

Aug. 26, 2012

Samsung to contest U.S. verdict in favor of Apple

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Saturday it will contest a U.S. court ruling that it must pay rival technology giant Apple damages of more than $1 billion for patent violations."We will move immediately to file post-verdict motions to overturn this decision in this court and if we are not successful, we will appeal this decision to the Court of Appeals," Samsung said.The statement came just

Aug. 25, 2012

Apple-Samsung jury may have leaned on engineer, patent holder

Jurors who zipped through more than 600 questions in three days to arrive at their verdict in the intellectual-property battle between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. had as their leader an engineer with a patent to his name.Velvin Hogan, foreman of the nine-member panel, told the court during jury selection last month that he spent seven years working with lawyers to obtain his own patent,

Aug. 25, 2012

Android in jeopardy after Samsung's loss to Apple in suit

Samsung's loss Friday in a U.S. lawsuit brought by Apple Inc. has set an amber light before the future of the Google-backed Android operating system.More than a year of courtroom fights between Samsung and Apple mean more than just patent disputes between the arch-rivals in the world's smartphone and tablet computer markets.Also at issue is Apple's claim that the Android operating system, which ru

Aug. 25, 2012