Bullying threatens nurses' health and careers
Mar 20, 2008 |
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In workplaces where nurses are bullied, the quality of patient care declines, the health of nurses suffers, and the retention of quality nurses becomes difficult. A new article published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, ...
Children with healthier diets do better in school
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A new study in the Journal of School Health reveals that children with healthy diets perform better in school than children with unhealthy diets.
Researcher discovers how to ignite, retain female interest in the study of science
Mar 20, 2008 |
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It might be surprising that 40,275 grams of slime, 4,030 ink dots, 3,876 M&Ms, 977 baby diapers, 489 cups of milk and a few electrified pickles can make a difference in the academic lives of adolescent girls, ...
Canadian hospital stay costs $7,000
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A report reveals an average hospital stay in Canada costs almost $7,000.
Obesity drug may cure chocolate cravings
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Researchers in Italy said the anti-obesity drug rimonabant may help chocoholics end their addiction.
Motor neuron disease and toxic substances: Possible link?
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Motor neuron disease is a rare, devastating illness in which nerve cells that carry brain signals to muscles gradually deteriorate. One form of it, Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), is familiar ...
New research provides genetic clue to Parkinson's disease
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University have discovered a gene that could hold the key to developing new treatments for Parkinson’s disease – a progressive and often debilitating ...
Plant gene clusters for natural products
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Mar 20, 2008 |
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John Innes Centre scientists have found that plants may cluster the genes needed to make defence chemicals. Their findings may provide a way to discover new natural plant products of use as drugs, herbicides ...
Slow melt of heavy snow better for the environment
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Water is on the minds of many Canadians at the moment, and not just because this Saturday is World Water Day. The record level accumulation of snow laden with imported moisture brought up from the Gulf of ...
Impaired sense of smell may be early indicator of Parkinson's disease
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Impaired sense of smell occurs in the earliest stages of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and there is mounting evidence that it may precede motor symptoms by several years, although no large-scale studies had confirmed this. In ...
Science with the solar space observatory Hinode
Mar 20, 2008 |
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The solar space observatory Hinode was launched in September 2006, with the name "Hinode" meaning sunrise in Japanese. The Hinode satellite carries a solar optical telescope (SOT), an X-ray telescope (XRT), ...
APIC launches first national C. difficile prevalence study
Mar 20, 2008 |
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) today announced a detailed strategy to combat Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD). The initiative begins with the first national prevalence ...
Scientists show that a microRNA can reduce lung cancer growth
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A small RNA molecule, known as let-7 microRNA (miRNA), substantially reduced cancer growth in multiple mouse models of lung cancer, according to work by researchers at Yale University and Asuragen, Inc., published ...
Eye test peers into heat-related multiple sclerosis symptoms
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A bodysuit that heats or cools a patient, combined with painless measurements of eye movements, is providing multiple sclerosis researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center with a new tool to study the mysterious link between ...
Researchers unmask proteins in telomerase, a substance that enables cancer
Mar 20, 2008 |
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One of the more intriguing workhorses of the cell, a protein conglomerate called telomerase, has in its short history been implicated in some critical areas of medicine including cancer, aging and keeping stem cells healthy. ...
