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document.writeln("JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER CLAIMS NOBEL PRIZE IN SCIENCE. Dr. Carol W. Greider a molecular biologist with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore (and dyslexic), is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Science. She is one of only eight women to ever win the prize in physiology or medicine. Dr. Greider shared her prize with Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak for their research on telomeres. (12/8/2009)
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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ISSUES POLICY STATEMENT ON DYSLEXIA AND VISION. The American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology issued a joint policy statement citing no scientific evidence to support the use of eye exercises, vision therapy, tinted lenses or filters to treat learning disabilities and that vision problems are not the cause of dyslexia or learning disabilities. Citing vision therapies as scientifically unsupported, AAP states such therapies are not recommended or endorsed. (9/25/2009)
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