Frontier to buy rural Verizon lines for $5.3B
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(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. said Wednesday it reached a deal to sell scattered phone service areas outside its main Northeastern and Californian territories for $5.3 billion in stock.
FCC: Landline number move should take 1 day, not 4
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission voted Wednesday to force landline phone companies to act faster when their subscribers want to move their phone number to a rival service.
US prescription drug use fell in 2008, study says
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Prescription drug use in the U.S. fell last year, although total spending on drugs increased as prices rose sharply on brand-name products, pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions said Wednesday.
Births to unwed moms rising, N. Europe beats US
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(AP) -- The percentage of births to unmarried women in the United States has been rising sharply, but it's way behind Northern European countries, a new U.S. report on births shows.
IEA urges more energy-efficient gadgets
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 13, 2009 |
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The IEA world energy watchdog urged action on Wednesday to make computers, mobile phones and other devices more energy-efficient as the number of users worldwide soars.
Scientists develop mathematical model to predict the immune response to influenza
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a mathematical model to predict immune responses to infection with influenza A viruses, including novel viruses such as the emergent 2009 influenza A (H1N1). This ...
Scientists discover molecular defect involved in hearing loss
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have elucidated the action of a protein, harmonin, which is involved in the mechanics of hearing. This finding sheds new light on the workings of mechanotransduction, the process ...
New testing facility helps researchers improve land mine detection equipment
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual ...
Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A
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The beta-carotene in so-called "Golden Rice" converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Tufts University in an article that appears in the current issue of the American Jo ...
Optometrists make custom contact lenses for long-underserved patients
May 13, 2009 |
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While the majority of patients with common vision problems can find glasses or contact lenses fairly easily, others who suffer from diseases of the eye that affect the focus of light have more limited options ...
After Microsoft and Intel, EU regulator sights may fall on Google
May 13, 2009 |
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After Microsoft and Intel, the next big US technology giant to find itself in the sights of EU competition regulators may be Google with its ubiquitous Internet search engine and online ad business.
Cognition already seriously impaired in first episode of schizophrenia
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Significant and widespread cognitive problems appear to exist in schizophrenia in its earliest phase, making it very hard for people with the disorder to work, study or be social, according to a new study published by the ...
Study shows traumatic brain injury haunts children for years
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the single most common cause of death and disability in children and adolescents, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Now, according to a new study by UCLA researchers, the effects ...
Hyperferritinemia is another surrogate marker of advanced liver disease
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High serum ferritin, being a hallmark of hereditary hemochromatosis , is frequently found in chronic hepatitis C, alcoholic or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients . A study in Italy ...
Gadgets: Back everything up with a single touch
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 13, 2009 |
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SanDisk Corp. has added the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB 2.0 portable flash drive to its long line of USB flash drives. This is the first to feature a solution to back up home or office data with the touch of ...
