Archive: 07/18/2008
Analysis of quickly stopped Rx orders provides new tool for reducing medical errors
By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated a systematic and efficient ...
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Tulane University Anthropologist Helps Unravel Mummy Mystery
Tulane University anthropologist Kit Nelson is the co-director of a National Geographic-sponsored team that is in the process of unraveling a mummy bundle found in Peru's historic Huaura Valley. The mummy is believed to have ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp
(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Researchers Help U.S. Military Thwart Explosive Threats
Researchers at UC San Diego are using statistical pattern recognition and image processing to help the U.S. military better detect hidden roadside explosives.
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Researchers use salmonella to administer vaccines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an ...
Biology /
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Researchers Capture Images that Illuminate One of Cell's Mysteries
(PhysOrg.com) -- Within human cells, tiny membrane-bound compartments called vesicles shepherd biomolecules from place to place.
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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An ID for Alzheimer's?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every aging baby boomer listens for the footsteps of Alzheimer's, and for good reason: It's estimated that 10 million American boomers will develop the disease. The need to develop preventative strategies, ...
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Suckling infants trigger surges of trust hormone in mothers' brains
Researchers from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with other universities and institutes in Edinburgh, France and Italy, have for the first time been able to show exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's ...
Biology /
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Giving learning a personal touch
A learning system that adapts to the abilities and needs of students opens the way to a more personalised approach in delivering education electronically.
Jul 18, 2008 |
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The benefits of a little resistance for older adults
University of Queensland research is showing the benefits of resistance training in keeping older Australians in tip top form.
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Doctors are key to tackling knife violence, says expert
Every hospital emergency department should share information about violent incidents with local crime reduction agencies to tackle the problem of knife crime, says an expert in this week's BMJ.
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Study identifies cells for spinal-cord repair
(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following ...
Biology /
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Averting postsurgical infections in kids: Give antibiotics within hour before first incision
Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery, suggests a Johns Hopkins study to be published in the August issue ...
Jul 18, 2008 |
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