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Media health reporting: Accuracy improving but still a way to go

Medicine & Health / Health

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

New research on the reporting of medical treatments in the media shows slight improvements in accuracy but the overall quality of health reporting remains poor.





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Scientists discover genetic pattern that indicates early-stage lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Wistar Institute researchers and collaborators from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University have identified immune system markers in the blood which indicate early-stage lung tumors in people at high risk for ...


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).


Most top medical journals have conflict of interest policies available for public review

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nearly 90 percent of medical journals with relatively high impact factors have policies addressing author conflict of interest (COI) available for public review, according to a report in the November 25 issue of JAMA. But ma ...


The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...


Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative ...


P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...


Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier

Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and ...


Team Prepares to Uplink Commands to Spirit

Tilt Parameters End First Extrication Drive for Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle lateral tilt ...


Magnetic Nanotags Spot Cancer in Mice Earlier Than Current Methods

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University ...


Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...



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