WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prodrug designed for once-daily treatment of adults with ADHD. Although ADHD — attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder — is often thought of as a childhood malady, it’s estimated 4.4 percent of U.S. adults ages 18-to-44 suffer from it. The new drug, Vyvanse, has been […]

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HOUSTON (UPI) — A U.S. optometrist says he has developed a series of tests designed to replace the standard eye chart to gauge athletes’ special visual abilities. University of Houston Assistant Professor Kevin Gee said athletes need above average vision to engage their special skills. To that end, Gee founded the Sports Vision Performance Center, […]

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NORWICH, England (UPI) — A British scientist says he’s developed a mathematical model that suggests the odds of finding life on another Earth-like planet are very low. University of East Anglia Professor Andrew Watson said an evolutionary limit is the habitability of Earth-like planets that will end as their star brightens. Scientists say the future […]

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CLEVELAND (UPI) — U.S. biologists say a Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle — thought to be extinct in nature — has been found in northern Vietnam. Vietnam researchers, sponsored by the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the Cleveland Zoological Society, identified the only known specimen living in the wild of the critically endangered giant soft-shell turtle Rafetus swinhoei. […]

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OTTAWA (UPI) — Canada became the first country to declare the widely used chemical bisphenol A unsuitable for use in baby bottles and set a ban mechanism in motion Friday. Health Minister Tony Clement and Environment Minister John Baird made the announcement in Ottawa, and said there will 60 days of public consultations before further […]

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MEMPHIS (UPI) — A U.S. study has revealed the basis of childhood leukemia resistance to the anti-cancer drug methotrexate. Scientists at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital say their findings provide new insights into the genomic basis of methotrexate resistance and differences in methotrexate response. The researchers said their study — the first analysis of […]

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MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’ve made a discovery that might lead to new treatments for central nervous system maladies such as Parkinson’s disease. Researchers led by Karen Mesce and Joshua Puhl of the University of Minnesota discovered it’s possible the human nervous system — within each segment of the spinal cord — might […]

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HOUSTON (UPI) — A U.S. study suggests calorie restrictions inhibit some cancers, while obesity fuels development of epithelial cancers. Epithelial cancers arise in the epithelium — the tissue that lines the surfaces and cavities of the body’s organs — and comprise 80 percent of all cancers. University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers […]

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NOTTINGHAM, England (UPI) — British astronomers say they’ve determined fully evolved galaxies existed 4 billion years after the birth of the universe. The University of Nottingham-led researchers said their finding challenges existing theories of the formation and evolution of galaxies. The astronomers said they used the most detailed infrared images of a portion of the […]

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– Wireless Dynamics’ new memory card turns mobile handsets into an RFID reader, and can also be used to store RFID applications and data, the vendor said Wednesday. The SDiD 1212 plugs into the Secure Digital (SD) slot built into many mobiles, and is the industry’s first card with embedded 512 MB SD memory, according […]

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