Apple: More than 1M new-model iPhones sold
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of its latest iPhone model in the first three days, making it the most successful model yet.
Newspapers: VA in Penn. botched cancer treatments
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ninety-two veterans were given incorrect radiation doses in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer during a six-year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, according to newspaper ...
Targeting helpers of heat shock proteins could help treat cancer, cardiovascular disease
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Dissecting how heat shock protein 90 gets steroid receptors into shape to use hormones like estrogen and testosterone could lead to targeted therapies for hormone-driven cancers, such as breast and prostate, ...
Midget plant gets makeover
Jun 22, 2009 |
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A tiny plant with a long name (Arabidopsis thaliana) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and ne ...
SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will ...
Kodak taking Kodachrome away
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Kodak is taking Kodachrome away. More than 35 years after Paul Simon immortalized the color film in song, the company announced on Monday that it would be ending production of Kodachrome.
Is personal data safe at firms?
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Making rules can be just as difficult as complying with them. Dutch researcher Marieke Thijssen investigated how well the Personal Data Protection Act (Dutch acronym Wbp) is harmonised with other rules that firms must comply ...
Obama announces agreement with drug companies
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the nation's ...
New map finds HIV rates are highest in the South
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.
Alleged 'Craigslist Killer' pleads not guilty
Jun 22, 2009 |
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The 23-year old medical student accused of killing a prostitute he met after answering an Internet ad on the popular Craigslist website, pleaded not guilty Monday in a Boston, Massachusetts courtroom.
How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New structures of a botulism toxin interacting with a mimic of the nerve-cell protein it destroys suggest new ways to block this often-fatal interaction. Indeed, the mimic molecules have such ...
Physicians frequently fail to inform patients about abnormal test results
Jun 22, 2009 |
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New research shows that physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients -- or to document that they had informed them -- in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results. In some medical ...
More patients across the world lowering 'bad' cholesterol
Jun 22, 2009 |
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The percentage of patients lowering their elevated "bad" cholesterol to within target levels nearly doubled in the last decade, according to a multi-national survey reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart As ...
What do toad toes show? Plenty, says ASU biologist
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Brian Sullivan has been clipping toes from toads since the early 1980s. It’s not some type of strange hobby, and he releases the toads back into their habitat along the Agua Fria River north ...
Music may have a future role in heart and stroke patient rehab
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Blood flow and respiratory rates can synch with music, indicating that music could one day be a therapeutic tool for blood pressure control and rehabilitation, according to a study by Italian researchers published in Circulation: Jo ...
