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...initial signs of success. Other colleges are redoubling their retention efforts. And last fall, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced up to $500 million in grants, aiming to double college-completion rates by 2025. As Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and co-author of the Brookings report, puts it, "Money speaks louder than anything...
...Poignantly, the one thing that unites the poor and the middle class in their hopes for family life is the imperishable dream of being married forever, grabbing hold of the golden ring of lasting partnership. The low-income mothers studied by Kefalas and co-author Kathryn Edin spoke repeatedly of their wish to get married; they "cherish marriage and hold it to an impossibly high standard," the authors found, but too often forgo it as a result. Meanwhile, the middle class has spent the past 2½ decades - during which the divorce culture became a fact of life - turning weddings...
...research by doctors at Children's Hospital Boston may help spur the development of a test for appendicitis that may someday prevent unnecessary surgeries, speed up the diagnostic process and even minimize undue medical costs. "It's very exciting," says Dr. Alex Kentsis, a pediatrician and co-author of the study published online June 23 by the Annals of Emergency Medicine. He estimates that a simple diagnostic test may be as close as three years away, and may be easy enough to administer outside of a hospital's emergency department, in individual doctor's offices or even local clinics...
...potential candidates by comparing the 12 samples to those from healthy children without appendicitis. "We analyzed the proteins to see which were statistically significant compared with [the controls], and this gave us a short list," explains Hanno Steen, director of the Proteomics Center at Children's and a co-author of the study. That short list, combined with other possible protein candidates identified in previous research on the subject, comprised 57 different possibilities. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...prior studies concludes that the so-called depression gene - a variant of a serotonin-transporter gene called 5-HTTLPR - may not be associated with an elevated risk for depression, as many researchers had believed. "Knowing whether or not you have this gene is irrelevant," says the study's co-author Kathleen Merikangas, a genetic epidemiologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, who adds that future studies of genetic risk factors for depression should broaden their scope and consider the interactions of many genes rather than the actions of just...