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Angwin, a technology writer at the Wall Street Journal, is equally adept at breaking down both the technological and the business sides of MySpace's development. It's a richly detailed portrait of the growth of a modern media company, complete with all the growing pains, feuds and business machinations that accompany it. Like a MySpace user, though, sometimes Angwin has a tendency to overshare - at one point, the pornography habits of MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson are discussed...
Longtime ADHD researcher Mark Rapport supervised the study, which is set to be published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Rapport, a professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, notes that our activity level - how much we move around in everyday situations - is one of the most fixed parts of our personalities. If you are a fidgety kid, you will be a fidgety adult, even if you learn to manage your movements with caffeine, stress-reduction, a personal trainer or other adult accoutrements...
...That was the goal of a study published March 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. What the investigators found was not encouraging. Currently, only about 1 in 10 hospitals nationwide has adopted even basic electronic record-keeping - and when you look inside that one statistic, the situation gets bleaker...
Because of this, she and Blumenthal co-authored a study charting rates of electronic medical record keeping. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last July, found that only 4 percent of physicians had a fully functional electronic records system, and only 13 percent had a basic system in place...
...balancing benefits and risks is more difficult when the patients are babies, the most fragile population. Now a new study from the Mayo Clinic, published on March 24 in the journal Anesthesiology, finds a link between exposure to anesthesia during surgery in infancy and learning disabilities later in life - the first such study to do so in humans - making the decision to operate even more fraught for both parents and doctors. (See TIME's Year in Medicine 2008, from...