http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit has not been established. http://www.physorg.com/news155396294.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:38:46 EST news155396294 (PhysOrg.com) -- A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California - with the exception of a handful of locations in Oregon from Waldport to Tillamook. http://www.physorg.com/news154892548.html Biology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:42:59 EST news154892548 Researchers have identified the gene that ultimately controls the production of tooth enamel, a significant advance that could some day lead to the repair of damaged enamel, a new concept in cavity prevention, and restoration or even the production of replacement teeth. http://www.physorg.com/news154631744.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:16:17 EST news154631744 (PhysOrg.com) -- A newly published study has found that the oldest trees in the forest also grow the slowest - and they likely aren`t the prettiest. http://www.physorg.com/news153073649.html Biology Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:28:14 EST news153073649 If global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be significantly higher than is currently projected, a new study concludes. http://www.physorg.com/news153066381.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:26:50 EST news153066381 No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. Settlers and trappers killed them all in little more than three decades. http://www.physorg.com/news152463800.html Biology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:03:55 EST news152463800 Researchers have discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease - quadrupling its prevalence in some cases - and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that threaten more than 20 million acres of native grasslands in California. http://www.physorg.com/news149793826.html Biology Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:23:46 EST news149793826