January has been designated by the US Congress as the National Cervical Health Awareness Month. The question is, are you taking good care of your cervix?
Here are two good reasons why you should:
10,000 American women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year and about 3,700 of these cases are fatal.
Even if not fatal, cervical cancer [...]
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It may seem intuitive, but a study from the Netherlands suggests that screening of toddler’s language abilities, and early intervention by speech and language therapists for children who performed poorly, dramatically reduced the number of children placed in special education schools by over 30%. Early screening also seemed to improve all the children’s [...]
Tags: learning, screening, speech, speech skils, vocabulary
Posted in: Education, Special Needs
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