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...other big congenital risk factor is genetics, first-degree family history being the most powerful risk factor for schizophrenia. And, in fact, the new study found that the added risk associated with maternal stress disappeared in children whose mothers already had a family history of mental illness - showing once again that the interplay of environment and genes is anything but straightforward...
Democrats - Sen. Barack Obama won the southern state, holding back the efforts of Sen. Hillary Clinton through much of the region. The African-American vote figuring in as a heavy, but not the only, factor in his support. Across Alabama, about half of the Democratic voters were black, and Obama, the Illinois Senator, won 80% of their votes. Exit polling also showed he captured 60% of the votes from people under 30, who made up more than one in 10 voters...
...National Institutes of Health in Uganda, for example, showed that among heterosexual couples in which only one partner is HIV positive, the chances of spreading HIV are low if the HIV positive partner has low levels of virus circulating in the blood. Such viral load is also a key factor in determining whether HIV-positive pregnant women pass on the infection to their unborn children: women with lower viral loads have a smaller chance of infecting their babies. "The phenomenon of lower virus, less chance of transmission is well known," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National...
...their poise and battled—and we certainly had to.”The game was won on the boards and lost at the free-throw line. The Quakers dominated the glass, out-rebounding the Crimson, 44-32. Penn’s total included 15 offensive boards, a factor that contributed significantly to the Quakers’ 20 second-chance points.“I just think their team was tougher than we were on the backboard,” Amaker said, adding later, “I think that was the difference.”After a sluggish...
...recent evening in the trendy loft district of downtown St. Louis, students from Missouri campuses gathered at Obama's state headquarters to plan the final phase of their own Super Tuesday effort. Quentin Anderson, 19, welcomed them by saying, "The youth vote is the most important factor in this cycle. We need to keep that momentum going." Glenn Rehn, 25, reported that Obama volunteers at the University of Missouri had collected 800 signed pledges of support before leaving campus for winter break. Kevin Wolfe, 19, said that for his group at Washington University in St. Louis, the Iowa success...