Stock Price Correlated to Likeability of Super Bowl Ads
Jan 29, 2008 |
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When TV viewers like a company's Super Bowl commercial, the company's stock price goes up, according to a study by researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Management and Cornell University.
Physician characteristics are associated with quality of cancer care
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Whether a woman receives radiation after breast cancer surgery may be associated with certain characteristics of her surgeon, including sex and medical training, according to a study published online January 29 in the Journal of ...
Kidney cancer drug attacks a major type of acute myeloid leukemia
Jan 29, 2008 |
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A drug used to treat kidney cancer also targets a genetic mutation active in about one third of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the most common and lethal form of adult leukemia, researchers at The University ...
Scientists make progress in determining how the brain selectively interprets sound
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have reported new findings about how the mammalian brain interprets and fashions representations of sound that may help explain how we are able to focus on one particular sound ...
DNA (driver of nicotine addiction)
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Cigarette smoking is the largest preventable source of death and disability in the USA, contributing to ~ 400,000 deaths annually. Despite widespread knowledge of the health dangers, ~ 1 in 8 American adults is a habitual ...
Viruses for a healthy pregnancy
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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Sequences of DNA in the human genome that originated from ancient viral infections have some surprising effects on our bodies and are even essential for a healthy pregnancy, according to an article in the February issue of ...
Heart transplants: Do more or do none, study suggests
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Heart surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence to support further tightening rather than easing of standards used to designate hospitals that are best at performing heart transplants.
Station Crew Ready for Wednesday's Spacewalk
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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The Expedition 16 crew aboard the International Space Station wrapped up preparations Tuesday for a 6.5-hour spacewalk scheduled to begin early Wednesday.
Expression patterns of microRNAs appear altered in colon cancer, and associated with poor outcomes
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Preliminary research has found an association between certain microRNA expression patterns and poor survival and treatment outcomes for colon cancer, according to a study in the January 30 issue of JAMA.
Digital mammography superior to film mammography in some cases
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For some women, digital mammography may be a better screening option than film mammography, according to newly published results from the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). The results appear in the February ...
A difficult youth is a good thing for a fish
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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A tough early life turns out to be a good thing for a fish, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They discovered that fish larvae that survive a long, rough, offshore journey ...
Group: Stop using pigs in medical schools
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An animal rights group has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture calling on U.S. colleges to stop killing pigs for educational purposes.
Conspicuous social signaling drives the evolution of chameleon color change
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What drove the evolution of color change in chameleons? Chameleons can use color change to camouflage and to signal to other chameleons, but a new paper published in the open-access journal PLoS Biology shows that the ne ...
Genetic variant impairs glycogen synthesis
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Glycogen is stored in skeletal muscles and liver and is of central importance as a first source of energy for muscle contractions, especially during high intensity exercise. Human genetic disorders primarily affecting skeletal ...
My Organic Baby food recalled in Canada
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Vaughan, Canada-based My Organic Baby has issued recalls on four varieties of infant cereal after inspection found some of the food to be rancid.
