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Christine Wilhelm drowned her 4-year-old son at this house on River Road in Hoosick Falls.

A University of Rochester study found chemicals in the plastic can found that they can actually disrupt hormones in little boys.

The Fairport Central School District has approved an aggressive approach to counteract the gender gap in technology classes.

U.S. scientists have organized a research project to study dangers presented by Rwanda's Lake Kivu, which contains high levels of carbon dioxide and methane.

Carmala Garzione, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, has won the 2009 New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for her research that has helped redefine geologists' understanding of the rate at which mountain ranges form.

"Chemicals used in plastics feminise the brains of little boys", according to the Daily Mail.

A new study has found that a chemical in plastic is potentially making boys "more feminine." Researchers at the University of Rochester discovered that boys who were exposed to high levels of phthalates while they were in the womb were less likely to play with boys' toys like cars or join in rough-and-tumble games, according to the BBC News.

A new small study raises the prospect, but doesn't prove, that there's a link between pregnant women's exposure to common chemicals called phthalates and the type of toys their male children prefer to play with when they reach preschool age.

LEXINGTON, Ky. He now is internationally recognized and renowned and in 1960, he entered the first University of Kentucky College of Medicine class.

Scientists can't say for sure if the volatile mixture at the bottom of the lake will remain still for another 1,000 years or someday explode without warning.

Prenatal exposure to common chemicals used to soften plastics may impact boys' play behavior later in life, according to new research published in the International Journal of Andrology .

Educational policy expert Kara Finnigan, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education, has been awarded a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation with her colleague Alan Daly, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, for a study of ...

Chemicals used in plastics could be "feminising" the brains of baby boys, a study published has suggested.

An ongoing commitment to the highest quality in the preparation of teachers and other school personnel has earned the University of Rochester reaccreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education , the organization responsible for professional accreditation of teacher education nationally.

Main Category: IT / Internet / E-mail Also Included In: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs, according to a study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine .

An arrest warrant says DNA evidence on a bloody sock found in the ceiling and an ink pen found under the body of a Yale graduate student links an animal research technician to her killing.

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics The University of Rochester Medical Center has announced the creation of a new center that will assist researchers studying the electrical activity of the heart with the goal of improving drug safety, understanding cardiac arrhythmias, and developing new ...

The Polish Film Festival, organized by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, kicks off with a screening of Too Soon to Die at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Little Theatre, 240 East Ave.

Eating a Westernized diet with lots of sugar and carbohydrates caused almost instantaneous changes in the gut flora of mice -- changes that caused the mice to become obese, researchers have found.

A small book publisher at the University of Rochester has received a $20,000 grant for a book about the fall of the Berlin Wall.