Archive: 10/23/2008
Cardiac risk estimates differ for Christian and Muslim patients
In a study of medical students, more serious cardiac risk estimates were given to Christians and less serious estimates for Muslims despite the patients being otherwise identical in their characteristics and symptoms, according ...
Oct 23, 2008 |
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IT outsourcing could benefit rural hospitals, researchers find
Patients expect the most up-to-date equipment and technology at hospitals, regardless of the institution's size or budget. Providing that technology, however, can be difficult for small, rural hospitals that often lack the ...
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Making flies sick reveals new role for growth factors in immunity
A Salmonella infection is not a positive experience. However, by infecting the common laboratory fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster with a Salmonella strain known for causing humans intestinal grief, researchers in the Sc ...
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Researchers find that hypnosis can induce synesthesia
Hypnosis can induce "synesthetic" experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another – within an average brain, according to a new study in the journal Psychological Science, the premiere publication of the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Diversity of trees in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest defies simple explanation
Trees in a hyper-diverse tropical rainforest interact with each other and their environment to create and maintain diversity, researchers report in the Oct. 24 issue of the journal Science. This study was co ...
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NASA's Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Wetlands expert: China should think outside the flooding box with Three Gorges Dam
China's farmers and merchants should take advantage of new agricultural and business opportunities that could help mitigate some effects of the annual flooding behind the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, according to ...
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Idle Farmlands Could Become Profitable Carbon Storage Banks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Michigan's recently enacted renewable energy portfolio legislation sets new requirements for green energy production in the State. Michigan policymakers believe energy plantations could be a major source ...
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Endeavour Rolls To Launch Pad for November Launch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space shuttle Endeavour began moving off Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning at 8:28. It will take about seven hours to reposition the shuttle for launch on Launch ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Ancient cave draws MSU archaeologists to southeast Montana
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eryka Thorley had already excavated ancient fire hearths and stone flakes, but a severe thunderstorm on the final day of field work added a new dimension to the archaeology dig in southeast ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Cone shell toxin offers new hope for chronic pain sufferers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Better chronic pain relief could be possible in the future, according to research announced today by scientists at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute.
Oct 23, 2008 |
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New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories.
Oct 23, 2008 |
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The Good Vibrations of Nearby Stars
Some of the first data collected by the CoRoT space telescope mission, launched in December 2006, provides valuable information about the physical vibrations and surface characteristics of nearby stars that ...
Oct 23, 2008 |
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If your systolic stinks, 'rotten egg' gas may be why
Anyone with a nose knows the rotten-egg odor of hydrogen sulfide, a gas generated by bacteria living in the human colon. Now an international team of scientists has discovered that cells inside the blood vessels of mice ...
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Study Shows How Antibiotic Sets Up Road Block To Kill Bacteria
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have taken a critical step toward the development of new and more effective antibacterial drugs by identifying exactly how a specific antibiotic sets up a road block that halts bacterial growth.
Oct 23, 2008 |
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