Adults

Video games may help improve 'lazy eye': Study

Washington: Playing video games could help improve the vision of adults suffering from amblyopia or lazy eye, scientists have found.



Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that adults with amblyopia -- a brain disorder in which vision in one eye does not develop properly " experienced marked improvement in 3-D depth perception and the sharpness of their vision after spending 40 hours playing video games.

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Adults from divorced homes contemplate suicide

Toronto: Adult children of divorced parents are more likely to think about committing suicide at some point in their lives than their peers from the families where parents share a firm bonding. The University of Toronto study, which examined gender specific differences among 6,647 adults in Canada, found that men belonging to divorced families had more than three times the odds of suicidal ideation than those whose parents had not...  

Walking faster key to survival among elderly

Washington: A higher walking speed could be the key to older adults surviving for longer, a study suggests. Stephanie Studenski of the University of Pittsburgh in the US and her colleagues conducted a study to co-relate gait speed with survival in older adults. The study analysed nine studies between 1986 and 2000 using individual data from 34,485 community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or above, reports the Journal of the American...  

Child victims often abused by known people

A report suggests 53 percent of child victims are sexually abused by someone known to them. ...

Suicidal teens more likely to be abusive adults

Teenagers who attempt suicide before they are 18 are much more likely as adults to be aggressive toward their girlfriends or wives. ...  

An average person gets only 63 minutes of peace

One in three adults do not even have an hour of rest while at home. ...  

25 per cent of Stroke patients are young adults

More than 200 people die of stroke everyday in our country. ...

No blanket ban on obscene pics: SC

The bench said with the ban, the adults would be deprived of reading their share of their entertainment. ...