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A new study has claimed that brain-injured children may use gesture to signal they need help in developing language.

The study looked at gestures such as pointing or waving goodbye in 11 18-month-olds as a way of predicting later vocabulary delays.

Gesture was considered by the researchers because recent studies have found it to be a good predictor of later language abilities in typically developing children. The children's language comprehension was tested when they were 30 months old.

A genetic variation linked with lower chance of sudden cardiac arrest has been discovered by physician-researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.

The discovery will be released in Public Library of Science (PloS One).

The invention came from a genome-wide association research that probes the complete set of human genes to discover possible linkages between genetic mutations and detailed conditions or illnesses.

Priyanka Chopra may be a strong-minded actress but she respects where she started out from. Even though most Bollywood hotties would never give up on a chance to work in a Hollywood flick, Priyanka rejected a Hollywood offer for the Hindi film industry.

Miss Chopra was offered the opportunity to play an important character in the Hollywood movie, 'Dawn of War'. But she denied doing the role, simply because she preferred to do Vishal Bhardwaj's movie, Saat Khoon Maaf.

Looks like the Tiger Woods scandal is keen on having a twin. Just like mistress after mistress is lining up to claim that they were in a relationship with Woods, ladies are emerging from their shell, one by one, to admit to their relationships with Jesse James.

A U. S. professor of nursing says that a wide variety of baby bottles are available but no one product is best so parents should go with what works best for babies.

Donna Dowling of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland generally suggests using the simpler systems.

Dowling says in a statement, "The more parts and tiny areas in the components, the harder it will be to clean."

She says that bottle and nipple need to fit the baby's eating style.