PTSD a medical warning sign for long-term health problems
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Geisinger research finds that veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are as likely to have long-term health problems as people with chronic disease risk factors such as an elevated white blood cell counts ...
Predicting the radiation risk to astronauts
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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European scientists have developed the most accurate method yet for predicting the doses of radiation that astronauts will receive aboard the orbiting European laboratory module, Columbus, attached to the ...
American Institute of Physics announces awards for best science writing
Feb 13, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the winners of its 2007 Science Writing Awards today. The winners -- a scientist, a journalist, a children's book author, and three radio broadcasters -- will receive a prize ...
Oil palm research in context: Identifying the need for biodiversity assessment
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivation has expanded dramatically in recent decades and is frequently cited as a major threat to tropical biodiversity. This is because oil palm is grown in lowland tropical regions and so ...
Singing in the rainforest: Public vs. private signaling by a tropical rainforest bird
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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According to the Chinese proverb, a bird sings because it has a song, not because it has an answer. A team of French and Brazilian researchers, however, may have the answer as to how the song of Brazilian white-browed warbler ...
Gliding to gold -- world-beating software could boost British swimming
Feb 13, 2008 |
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New computer software could enable Britain’s swimmers to improve a key aspect of their technique more quickly and effectively than previously possible – and so help them win more medals in major championships in future.
UT Southwestern plastic surgeons deploy new carbon dioxide-based fractional laser
Feb 13, 2008 |
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UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are among a handful in the nation deploying a new type of laser that goes deeper into the skin to help reduce wrinkles, tighten surface structures and treat ...
GLAST's Delta II rocket's first stage arrives in Cape Canaveral
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) into space in May has arrived at Hangar M on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) ...
Cheating is easy -- for the social amoeba
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale ...
Body part by body part, Sumatran tigers are being sold into extinction
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Laws protecting the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger have failed to prevent tiger body parts being openly sold in Indonesia, according to a TRAFFIC report launched today.
Robert Jastrow, NASA advocate, dies
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Robert Jastrow, former director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and a well-known advocate of the space program, has died at 82.
'Genetic corridors' are next step to saving tigers
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,000 mile-long “genetic corridor” from Bhutan to Burma that would allow tiger populations to roam freely across ...
Gene chips used to distinguish ventilator-associated pneumonia from underlying critical illness
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Critically ill patients who need a ventilator to breathe face a high risk of pneumonia. The lung infection, however, is exceedingly difficult to diagnose because a patient's underlying condition often skews laboratory test ...
Cigarette after Valentine snuggle deadlier for some
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The proverbial cigarette after a Valentine’s Day snuggle can prematurely end a love affair, as new evidence emerges that a common defect in a gene significantly increases a smoker’s risk of an early heart attack. Researchers ...
DNA with a twist: New company to search for cancer drugs and antibiotics
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A new company has joined the fight against MRSA and cancer. Researchers at the John Innes Centre (Norwich) have launched a new company, Inspiralis Ltd, based around their expertise in DNA topoisomerases – ...
