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Barriers fall between TV, Internet

You say TV, I say Internet. Toe-mate-o, toe-mah-to.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Airline industry split widens over EU carbon 'tax' row

A split widened within the aviation industry Tuesday over EU charges for carbon emissions, as Europe's low-cost carriers accused Chinese and US rivals of "gunboat" diplomacy against the system.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The dark path to antisocial personality disorder

With no lab tests to guide the clinician, psychiatric diagnostics is challenging and controversial. Antisocial personality disorder is defined as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Restricting calories early on does not help acute lung injury patients on ventilators

Acute lung injury patients on ventilators who require a feeding tube have a similar number of ventilator-free hospital days and similar mortality rates if they receive a low-calorie feeding program initially followed by a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physical punishment of children potentially harmful to their long-term development

An analysis of research on physical punishment of children over the past 20 years indicates that such punishment is potentially harmful to their long-term development, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Associati ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists make strides toward fixing infant hearts

Researchers at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital have turned stem cells from amniotic fluid into cells that form blood vessels. Their success offers hope that such stem cells may be used to grow ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Proposed autism diagnostic criteria roils medical community

A proposal to use new diagnostic criteria for autism has roiled the US medical community, with many experts concerned that the move could exclude children affected by some forms of the disorder.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clopidogrel with aspirin doesn't prevent more small strokes, may increase risk of bleeding, death

The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with subcortical stroke according ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fighting heart disease in women

Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of women, but 80 percent of heart disease is preventable. Although the majority of heart attacks occur in the ten years after menopause, the disease process starts much earlier. If ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gamers on 3-D mission to save world, just don't tell them they are learning cell biology

After growing up on an entertainment diet of X-Men and Xbox, high school and college-age students may find a textbook on cell biology to be a little, well, bland.

Technology / Software

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Colo. lawmakers consider trans-fat ban in schools

(AP) -- The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation's toughest school trans-fat ban.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Many children with liver transplants from parents can safely stop using anti-rejection drugs

Physicians at three transplant centers have found in a pilot study that a majority of children who receive liver tissue from a parent can eventually stop using immunosuppression (anti-rejection) medications safely. These ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ukraine shuts down leading file-sharing site

Ukrainian authorities have shut down a popular file-sharing website saying it violates copyright laws, officials said Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Emergency departments' quality evaluation requires hospital-wide effort

Time can be important in an emergency department especially in a busy Level 1 Trauma Center like MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, when getting patients appropriate care is essential. However, when the quality of an ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Senator's stroke shows they can hit the young, too

(AP) -- When a stroke hits at 52, like what happened to Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, the reaction is an astonished, "But he's so young."

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0