Archive: 12/11/2009
Most eligible patients miss out on cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure
Most patients with heart failure likely to benefit from a pacemaker including the capacity for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) do not receive such an implantable device, reports a national study in the December 2009 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 11, 2009 |
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'Extreme' genes shed light on origins of photosynthesis
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most school children understand that green plants photosynthesize, absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, few people consider the profound global-scale effects that photosynthesis has had on Earth. ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Salazar calls for high flows into Colorado River
(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Study shows how gene action may lead to diabetes prevention, cure
A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to diabetes.
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Tropical Cyclone 05B forms southeast of Chennai, India
Tropical Cyclone 05B has formed out of "System 96B" in the Northern Indian Ocean and is forecast to approach southeastern India by Sunday, December 13 and make landfall on Monday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Targeted therapy prolongs life in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer
Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are significantly better than lapatinib alone in extending the lives of breast cancer patients whose tumors are HER2-positive, according to Kimberly Blackwell, M.D., associate professor of medicine ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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ARS Scientists Help Fight Damaging Moth in Africa
(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have launched a preemptive strike to combat the false codling moth, a major pest in its native Africa.
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Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays
(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.
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New study grapples with health effects of low-intensity warfare
For nearly two decades, Ivy Pike, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, has been studying ethnic groups in rural northern Kenya to understand how violence shapes the health of those eking out ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Tech blog, Singapore startup feud over tablet PC
(AP) -- About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a startup to make his dream computer. It almost worked.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Endangered rhinos return to wild
A Czech zoo is to transfer four endangered Northern White rhinos to a Kenyan reserve in a last-ditch attempt to ensure the survival of the species.
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TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close
Rainfall in the once-known Cyclone Cleo has really diminished over the last 24 hours, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has confirmed it. Cleo is fading and the Joint Typhoon Warning ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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eBay Mind Games
Psychologists have long known that when two people haggle over a price, it pays for the seller to start high.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Most Oncologists Feel New Genetic Test for Tamoxifen Sensitivity Not Ready for the Clinic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite commercial availability and direct to consumer marketing of a new genetic test designed to reveal a breast cancer patient’s sensitivity to tamoxifen, most physicians in the U.S. are not currently ...
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Physics rules network dynamics
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.
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