DVD Helps Kids With Autism Read Faces, Emotions
A video developed by British researchers uses human faces on trains, trucks and other vehicles to help teach children with autism how to recognize the emotions behind facial expressions. A study found that children who watched for at least 15 minutes a day for a month became more adept.
Getting to the point of pain relief
Acupuncture has been widely practiced in China for thousands of years but in the West has been recognized as an effective treatment only over the past decade or two.
Source: Investigators find 4 kinds of salmonella in peanut probe
Officials say four kinds of salmonella have been identified in the growing investigation of tainted peanut products.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/baltimoresun/news/health/rss2/~4/Z6YNEN7_BL4" height="1" width="1"/
DEVELOPMENT: Urgent Aid Sought for Victims of Silent Crises
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - The United Nations children's bureau UNICEF said Tuesday that it must raise over a billion dollars this year to meet the basic needs of women and children in disaster zones worldwide, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.