Older women who get little sleep may have a higher risk of falling

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women age 70 and older who sleep five hours or less per night may be more likely to experience falls than those who sleep more than seven to eight hours per night, according to a report in the September 8 issue of Archives of ...


Premature children 4 times more likely to have behavioral disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Children born prematurely are four times more likely to have emotional problems or behavioural disorders, according to research led by the University of Warwick.


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An advance on new generations of chemotherapy and antiviral drugs

Chemistry /

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers are describing progress toward developing a new generation of chemotherapy agents that target and block uncontrolled DNA replication — a hallmark of cancer, viral infections, and other diseases ...


Study finds previously deported immigrants more likely to be rearrested after leaving jail

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Deportable immigrants who previously have been expelled from the United States are more likely to be rearrested on suspicion of committing a crime after they are released from jail than other deportable immigrants without ...


Calculating how breast cancers will respond to tamoxifen

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A discovery by Australian scientists could help clinicians decide which women with breast cancer will make good candidates for anti-oestrogen therapies, such as tamoxifen, and which will not.


Hotline to the cowshed

Technology / Engineering

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A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources.


Safety study indicates gene therapy for blindness improves vision

Medicine & Health / Research

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All three people who received gene therapy at the University of Florida to treat a rare, incurable form of blindness have regained some of their vision, according to a paper published online today in Human Gene Therapy.


High blood pressure after stroke should not necessarily rule out use of clot-busting treatment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Patients who require therapy to lower their blood pressure following a stroke do not appear to be at a higher risk for bleeding or other adverse outcomes after receiving anti-clotting therapy, according to a report in the ...




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