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July 28, 2010

Children With Brain Injuries Have Problems With Story-Telling

Children with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other language abilities, such as vocabulary, tend to catch up with other children as they mature, research at the University of Chicago shows...

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May 19, 2010

Our Own Worst Enemies

My medical school clinical preceptor asked me, during my first year, what specialties (at The University of Chicago, the attitude toward general practice was well represented by the dismissive references to ‘LMDs'-local medical doctors) I was considering.

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August 26, 2009

Women with high testosterone may take more financial risks

August 24, 2009 WASHINGTON - Women with more testosterone tend to behave more like men when taking financial risks, according to a new study. "Women with higher levels of testosterone turn out to be less risk averse, more willing to take risks," Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago said in a telephone...

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July 28, 2009

Health Undermined By Divorce In Ways Remarriage Doesn’t Heal

Divorce and widowhood have a lingering, detrimental impact on health, even after a person remarries, research at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University shows. "Among the currently married, those who have ever been divorced show worse health on all dimensions. Both the divorced and widowed who do not remarry show worse health on all dimensions," said University of Chicago sociol

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