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Stories about: medical condition

British Home Office Delays McKinnon Extradition What seemed to be the imminent extradition of British hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States was set back again after the Home Office agreed to review new psychiatric evidence. McKinnon's legal representatives were given fourteen days to come up with other ways of attack, after their request to have the case ... 20 October 2009 08:08 GMT Why Some Keep Failing Math While some people can juggle with numbers, and even invent theories that dispute knowledge hundreds of years old, others find themselves unable to complete the most basic calculations. And we're not talking about not learning their lesson for the next class either. Recent discoveries point at the fact that a med... 24 January 2009 06:21 GMT Technical Medical Terms Scare People Doctors who use very technical terms when describing a disease to their patients are more likely to scare the people seeking their help than those who introduce medical conditions with their lay terms, instead of the correct medical ones. When hearing words they don't understand, especially in relation to their ... 9 December 2008 04:33 GMT