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Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according ...


New software to simulate future financial crises

New software to simulate future financial crises

Technology / Computer Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...


Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea (AP)

Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea

Medicine & Health / Health

created 14 hours ago | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.


Special ultrasound accurately identifies skin cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High-frequency ultrasound with elastography can help differentiate between cancerous and benign skin conditions, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).


Europe's device therapy use for heart failure doubles 2004-2008, some countries have low uptake

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure increased "enormously" in Europe between the years 2004 and 2008, but there still remain large differences between countries, according to a study reported ...


Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul (AP)

Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Maybe you've been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question:


Tulane University surgeon pioneers 'scarless' thyroid surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tulane University School of Medicine surgeon Dr. Emad Kandil is one of the first in the country to perform a new form of endoscopic surgery that uses a small incision under the arm to remove all or a portion of the thyroid ...


Adverse heart effects of rofecoxib may have been identified years earlier

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical trial data indicated an association between the anti-inflammatory medication rofecoxib and cardiovascular risk as early as December 2000, before the product was taken off the market in September 2004, according to ...


Prostate Cancer Surgery Performed by Many Surgeons with Little Experience

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has found that the majority of surgeons treating prostate cancer in the United States have extremely low annual caseloads, potentially ...


Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 6

The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores ...


Vitamin B niacin offers no extra benefit to statin therapy in seniors already diagnosed with CAD

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial narrowing and diminishing ...


Transcendental Meditation helped heart disease patients lower cardiac disease risks by 50 percent

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Patients with coronary heart disease who practiced the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation® technique had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to nonmeditating controls, according ...


New national study finds more than half of cheerleading injuries in US due to stunts

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Whether rallying the crowd at a sporting event or participating in competition, cheerleading can be both fun and physically demanding. Although integral to cheerleading routines, performing stunts can lead to injury. Stunt-related ...


Doctors embrace social networking

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.


Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads

Technology / Internet

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging federal regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements.