Analysis: Condition could predict life or death in heart patients
Oct 23, 2006 |
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A growing health problem affecting older Americans puts them at higher risk for dying after heart surgery and other interventional procedures, such as heart catheterizations, according to findings published in the current ...
Different strategies underlie the ecology of microbial invasions
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Oct 23, 2006 |
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Infectious disease can play a key role in mediating the outcome of competition between rival groups, as seen in the effects of disease-bearing conquistadors in the New World--or, on a much smaller ecological scale, the ability ...
Should patients undergoing surgery take Aspirin?
Oct 23, 2006 |
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A national survey of Canadian surgeons by researchers at McMaster University found little consistency in their use of the blood thinner Aspirin in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
Frito-Lay plans healthy chips
Oct 23, 2006 |
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Texas's Frito-Lay is jumping aboard the health bandwagon with a line of snack chips made from fruits and vegetables.
Bargain or waste of money? Consumers don't always agree
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Once consumers buy an item, it is often difficult for them to get rid of it, even if it makes rational sense to do so. This is even the case if those purchases might include shoes that cause blisters or clothes that no longer ...
EPA: Recycling up and trash down
Oct 23, 2006 |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Americans are recycling more, while throwing away less.
Aussies produce fertility pill for men
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 23, 2006 |
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Australian researchers have discovered that a combination of anti-oxidants and vitamins can significantly increase a man's fertility.
Insurance plan penalizes smokers, obese
Oct 23, 2006 |
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The director of a U.S. anti-smoking organization says smokers and obese people should pay substantially more for health insurance than others.
Scientists study mistrustful relationships
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U.S. scientists say people often report mistrusting others who are different from them, but research doesn't support that contention.
Fat Tissue Engineers Gather to Swap Notes on Repairing Human Tissue
Oct 23, 2006 |
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Doctors, fat researchers and tissue engineers from around the world will trade techniques and their latest research findings to improve the use of human fat tissue in medical therapies like facial, breast, bone, vocal cord ...
Canada OK's silicone gel implants
Oct 23, 2006 |
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Canadian health officials have approved the use of silicone gel breast implants, 14 years after the government imposed a partial ban of the product.
North American birds in avian flu study
Oct 23, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they've found the common wood duck and laughing gull are susceptible to the H5N1 avian influenza virus and could transmit the disease.
Female Pronghorns Choose Mate Based on Substance as Well as Show
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When a female animal compares males to choose a mate, she can't order a laboratory genetic screen for each suitor. Instead, she has to rely on external cues that may indicate genetic quality. Until now, biologists have focused ...
Gulf bay double whammy: rising seas, dammed rivers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2006 |
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New research finds that every U.S Gulf Coast bay in Texas and Louisiana is vulnerable to significant flooding and expansion within the coming century due to a combination of rising seas and reduced silt flowing from dammed ...
Debate sparked over U.S. drug spending
Oct 23, 2006 |
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A doctor at New York's Weill Cornell Medical College has defended U.S. drug spending, which accounts for 42 percent of drug sale money worldwide.
