Federal Judge Strikes Down ACA’s Preventive Care Coverage Requirements
A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision requiring all insurers to cover certain preventive services free of charge, angering the law’s supporters. “Individual Plaintiffs need not comply with the preventive care coverage recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued on or after March 23, 2010 [the […]
Mental speed hardly changes over a lifespan: Study shows that the speed of cognitive information processing remains largely stable over decades
Mental speed — the speed at which we can deal with issues requiring rapid decision-making — does not change substantially over decades. Psychologists at Heidelberg University have come to this conclusion. Under the leadership of Dr Mischa von Krause and Dr Stefan Radev, they evaluated data from a large-scale online experiment with over a million […]
Choline during pregnancy impacts children’s sustained attention
Seven-year-old children performed better on a challenging task requiring sustained attention if their mothers consumed twice the recommended amount of choline during their pregnancy, a new Cornell study has found. The study, which compared these children with those whose mothers had consumed the recommended amount of choline, suggests that the recommended choline intake for expectant […]