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Local health expert on Obama transition team (The Palm Beach Post)
Dr. Claude Earl Fox, who runs a health policy institute here and served as a top official in the Clinton administration, is one of 350 people working since late November on President-elect Obama's transition team.
Read more...Missouri Adopts Early Intervention Strategy Developed By Siskin Institute Researcher (The Chattanoogan)
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has implemented an early intervention strategy developed by the director of the Siskin Center for Child and Family Research at Siskin Children's Institute.
Read more...Study Yields Clues About The Evolution Of Epilepsy (Medical News Today)
Two children have a seizure. One child never has another seizure. Twenty years later, the other child has a series of seizures and is diagnosed with epilepsy. A study being led by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is looking at what could possibly happen in the development of these two children that would lead to such extreme variations in their neurologic health.
Read more...Babies Delivered by C-Section Before 39 Weeks More Likely to Have Serious Health Problems (Newswise)
A new study conducted in part at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that babies delivered by elective Caesarean section before 39 weeks of pregnancy, to mothers who previously had an elective C-section, are much more likely to have serious health problems than newborns delivered under the same circumstances at 39 weeks.
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Bush names three marine national monuments ... New poisonous spider species found ... Mayo Clinic violated U.S. regs on research ... Early trauma, chronic fatigue link found ... Health/Science news from UPI.
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