Archive: 08/05/2009
Considering combination versus sequential chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer
Both combination and sequential single-agent chemotherapy are reasonable options to treat metastatic breast cancer, but the choice between the two should ultimately be based on patient- and disease-related factors, according ...
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Have gear, will travel: Testing the industry's slickest netbooks
Sacrificing a small amount of performance in favor of convenience and travel ease, netbooks are all the rage. It's easy to see why. While they won't let you play next year's hottest PC titles, they can handle a round or ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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Time to clean up your digital closet
Let's jump ahead 50 years. Imagine your grandchildren are rummaging around in your attic, looking through old boxes and trunks. They discover laptops, hard drives wrapped in cloth, DVDs, and maybe even a real antique: A ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Let freedom ring with Google Voice
With the exception of touch-tone phones, Caller ID and cell phones, talking on the phone hasn't changed a lot during the past few decades. That's a big reason why people are increasingly choosing to text, ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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1930s home goes green
A 1930s house built in 2008 is about to undergo the first of three energy efficiency upgrades which will ultimately convert an energy inefficient house into a zero carbon home designed to meet the Government's 2016 CO2 targets fo ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 05, 2009 |
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What you eat depends on with whom you eat
If you are a woman who dines with a man, chances are you choose food with fewer calories than if you dine with a woman. That is one of the findings in a study conducted by researchers at McMaster University.
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San Diego Zoo panda gives birth to 5th cub
(AP) -- Prized San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labor.
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UC San Diego launches Triton Resource Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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ANDE-2 satellite deployed from Space Shuttle Endeavour
The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, 2009.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Decoding leukemia patient genome leads scientists to mutations in other patients
Decoding the complete DNA of cancer patients is giving scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis a clearer picture of the complexity of the disease and allowing them to see intriguing and unexpected ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Health-care reform must respect patient autonomy
As President Obama and Congress weigh changes in the nation's health care system they must avoid creating a system where physicians are financially motivated to pressure patients into mandated treatments that conflict with ...
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Review: New Sony Walkman misses multimedia mark
(AP) -- Thirty years after revolutionizing portable music with the Walkman for playing cassette tapes, Sony is trying to master the digital media player with the X Series Walkman.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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Study results raise questions about vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spinal compression fractures
A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that relief of pain from vertebral compression fractures, as well as improvement in pain-related dysfunction, were similar in patients treated with vertebroplasty and those ...
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Cisco earnings fall 46 pct but beat expectations
(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. said earnings fell 46 percent in its latest quarter, but the profit beat Wall Street expectations, and the company said the quarter may have been the bottom of the recession-related ...
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News Corp 4Q loss hits $203M on MySpace writedown
(AP) -- Global media company News Corp. says its fourth-quarter net loss hit $203 million due to huge impairment charges at MySpace, while its operating profit for the year was slightly worse than it predicted due to the ...
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