News tagged with attacks
Migraine prevention by targeting glutamate receptors?
Apr 29, 2009 |
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When migraine strikes, because of severe pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, sufferers are effectively disabled for up to 72 hours. Since they are forced to stop what they are doing until ...
Cisco offering computing cloud protection
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Cisco on Tuesday unveiled tools to harden computer network defenses of businesses that use software applications as services on the Internet.
A few pennies for your thoughts -- and credit card
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One economy apparently isn't hurting these days - the one run by identity thieves in the dark corners of the Internet.
Cyber spying a threat, and everyone is in on it
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ghost hackers infiltrating the computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electric grid have pulled the curtain back on 21st-century espionage as nefarious as anything from the Cold War - and far more difficult to stop.
No Direct Link Between Panic Attacks, PTSD
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 09, 2009 |
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New Geisinger-lead research dispels a recent notion in psychiatry that if a person experiences a panic attack during a traumatic event that they will likely suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the future.
Pentagon spends $100 million to fix cyber attacks
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday.
Cholesterol crystals linked to cardiovascular attacks
Mar 26, 2009 |
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For the first time ever, a Michigan State University researcher has shown cholesterol crystals can disrupt plaque in a patient's cardiovascular system, causing a heart attack or stroke.
How mosquitoes could teach us a trick in the fight against malaria
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The means by which most deadly malaria parasites are detected and killed by the mosquitoes that carry them is revealed for the first time in research published today in Science Express. The di ...
Collective religious rituals, not religious devotion, spur support for suicide attacks
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2009 |
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In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Jeremy Ginges and Ian Hansen from the New School for Social Research along with psychologist Ara Norenzayan from t ...
Genetic tests may improve dosing of widely used anti-clotting drug
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Doctors can use a patient's genetic information to more accurately prescribe doses of a commonly used blood-thinning drug whose potency and side effects vary greatly from one person to the next, reports an international team ...
UCLA geographers urge U.S. to search 3 structures in Pakistan for bin Laden
Feb 17, 2009 |
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While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 ...
Does gene show link between migraine and stroke or heart attacks?
Feb 16, 2009 |
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New research looks at whether a gene variant may affect the link between migraine and stroke or heart attacks. The study is published in the February 17, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...
Resting heart rate can predict heart attacks in women
Feb 04, 2009 |
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A simple measurement of resting pulse predicts coronary events in women independently of physical activity and common risk factors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, finds a study published on bmj.com today.
Driving under the influence (of stress): Regional effects of 9/11 attacks on driving
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 02, 2009 |
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The September 11 terrorist attacks had a profound impact on this country's psyche. Eight years after the attacks, we are still learning how those terrible events affected us. A number of studies have shown that people who ...
Oetzi's last days: Glacier man may have been attacked twice
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Another chapter in a murder case over 5000 years old. New investigations by an LMU research team working together with a Bolzano colleague reconstructed the chronology of the injuries that Oetzi, the glacier man preserved ...
