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...paper, published on Monday in the British Journal of Psychology, Baron-Cohen studied 235 pairs of mothers and children over eight years, periodically giving the children questionnaires designed to measure autistic traits. None of the children in the study received an autism diagnosis, but Baron-Cohen found that those who had been exposed to higher testosterone levels in the womb - measured via amniocentesis during pregnancy - had a greater chance of displaying autism-associated traits such as poor social skills, imagination and empathy and high aptitude in certain memory-retention exercises...
...fantastic," says Dr. Beth Malizia, lead author of the study, published in the Jan. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, and a former clinical fellow in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. "When we got these results we were quite pleased...[IVF] does restore in the infertile population the same live birth rates that they have in their own age group."(See TIME's Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs...
...Weill's dream, pared down, will have more "focus." According to the Wall Street Journal, "The company plans to focus on wholesale banking for large corporate clients and retail banking for customers in selected markets around the world...
Sticks and stones may break your bones - but if you need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found that when surgical teams heeded a simple checklist - as pilots do before takeoff - patient-mortality rates were cut nearly in half and complications fell by more than a third...
...lists. In 2003 Pronovost persuaded the state of Michigan to use three of his checklists in its intensive-care units. He worked with hospitals to overcome resistance from the staff to what appeared to be "more paperwork." He published the results of that study in the New England Journal of Medicine: a 66% reduction in infections and an estimated $175 million saved by not having to treat them...