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Reducing Cardiovascular Risk: Too Little, Too Late, Too Short-Term

Vascular diseases in general, and cardiovascular disease in particular, are diseases of mass destruction, killing more people in the Western world (and increasingly in the developing world) than world wars. Each year, coronary heart disease kills over half a million Americans and over 100 000 British citizens each year, often prematurely (WHO online). A combination of migration, epidemiological...

The QT interval: too long, too short or just right.

Pregnancy weight gain: marmoset and tamarin dads show it too.

Paternal behaviour is critical for the survival of offspring in many monogamous species. Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) and cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) fathers spend as much or more time caring for infants than mothers. Expectant males of both species showed significant increases in weight across the pregnancy whereas control males did not (five consecutive months for marmoset m...

QT syndrome presenting as syncope : How short is too short ?

Adults show less sensitivity to phonetic detail in unfamiliar words, too.

Young word learners fail to discriminate phonetic contrasts in certain situations, an observation that has been used to support arguments that the nature of lexical representation and lexical processing changes over development. An alternative possibility, however, is that these failures arise naturally as a result of how word familiarity affects lexical processing. In the present work, we expl...