The making of Dig It! the Secrets of Soil exhibit
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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At the 2008 Joint Annual Meeting in Houston, the Smithsonian's Design Team will explain details about the making of the new Dig It the Secrets of Soil exhibit that recently opened at the Natural History Museum ...
Social class dictates cancer risk
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Cervical and lung cancer are more common in poor people while rates of breast cancer and melanoma are higher in the wealthy. A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more ...
Are we spending too much on health?
Sep 26, 2008 |
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In this poor economic climate and period of lower growth is it time to consider limiting spending on healthcare budgets? Two experts debate the issue on bmj.com today.
An ethical argument: Include pregnant women in research
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Why aren't pregnant women included in most clinical trials? That's the question posed by leading bioethicists at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, who say it's time to confront the ...
Wetlands restoration not a panacea for Louisiana coast
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Counting on wetlands restoration projects to protect storm buffeted infrastructure along the Louisiana Coast is likely to be a "losing battle" that provides "false hope" and prevents endangered communities from clearly planning ...
Research underway to give sleep apnea sufferers relief and rest
Sep 26, 2008 |
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For some, a full night's rest can be anything but restful. That's because they have sleep apnea, which causes them to struggle for breath in bouts throughout the night. Six percent of the population is affected ...
HICO-RAIDS experiments ready for payload integration
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) and the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS), both developed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), are ready for payload integration following ...
Animals farmed for meat are the No. 1 source of food poisoning bug, study shows
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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A study by researchers from Lancashire, England, and Chicago, IL, found that 97 percent of campylobacteriosis cases sampled in Lancashire were caused by bacteria typically found in chicken and livestock. The work, which appears ...
Continuous glucose monitoring in diabetic pregnant women lowers risk of complications
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Continuous glucose monitoring as part of antenatal care for women with diabetes improves maternal blood glucose control and lowers birth weight and risk of macrosomia (excessive birth weight in babies), according to a study ...
Discovery offers new understanding of diabetes drug target
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Leicester have published findings about a new advance in the study of major diabetes drug target.
Researchers investigate impact of stress on police officers' physical and mental health
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Policing is dangerous work, and the danger lurks not on the streets alone. The pressures of law enforcement put officers at risk for high blood pressure, insomnia, increased levels of destructive stress hormones, heart problems, ...
Endoscopy may not be necessary in asymptomatic children after caustic ingestion
Sep 26, 2008 |
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A new study from researchers in Italy reports that endoscopy may not be necessary in children who show no symptoms after a caustic ingestion. The results demonstrated that the incidence of severe abnormalities of the esophagus ...
