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Making healthy choices easy for shoppers

FoodSwitch, an Australian-first iPhone app, has been launched recently to help shoppers make healthier food choices in the supermarket and reduce high levels of fat, salt and sugar from their diets.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eat fish, build up brainpower

Can pregnant women help boost their children's brainpower by eating fish? The findings of a study, presented in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show how children born to women who consumed more f ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

US expected to extend Grand Canyon mining ban

The US administration scheduled an announcement Monday widely expected to implement a long-term ban on mining around the Grand Canyon, a move praised by environmental activists.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Feds crack down on homeopathic weight loss remedy

(AP) -- Federal regulators are ordering several companies to stop selling an unproven weight loss remedy that uses protein from the human placenta.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Diagnostic physicians at increased risk for medical malpractice claims due to communication failures

Because clinical evaluation often depends on diagnostic tests, diagnostic physicians have a responsibility to notify referring clinicians when test results reveal urgent or unexpected findings. According to an article selected ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung and Apple 'distance apart', court hears

Samsung and Apple Inc are yet to reach a deal which would permit the South Korean firm to sell its tablet computers in Australia, and are "a considerable distance apart", a court heard Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Judge to make ruling on Apple/Samsung next week

An Australian court on Thursday said a judgement was likely next week in technology giant Apple's patent dispute with Samsung Electronics over tablet computers.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Apple argues iPad case in Australia tablet row

American computer giant Apple claimed on Monday that Samsung Electronics' latest tablet computer infringes on patents relating to touch screen technology.

Technology / Business

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung, Apple tablet row heats up in Australia

Electronics giant Samsung Monday said it would launch a counter claim against US firm Apple in Australia as part of a dispute between the rival companies over tablet computers.

Technology / Business

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

True cost of medical malpractice

The debates over health care reform may soon become more informed. A new study undertaken by a group of researchers, including Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Professor Amitabh Chandra, provides a detailed snapshot ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Only 1 in 5 medical malpractice cases pay

(AP) -- Only 1 in 5 malpractice claims against doctors leads to a settlement or other payout, according to the most comprehensive study of these claims in two decades.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Research grant combines astrophysics and archeology to decipher ancient texts

Lucy Fortson, an astrophysicist and Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota is part of a collaboration called Ancientlives which has received a grant to ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Europe drought leading to more property damage: study

Increasing occurrences of drought have led to a jump in European insurance claims for damage to homes owing to subsiding soil, a study by reinsurer Swiss Re and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology said ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Study points to patient safety risks outside hospital walls

Ever since the Institute of Medicine issued its landmark report "To Err Is Human" in 1999, significant attention has been paid to improving patient safety in hospitals nationwide.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novo Nordisk pays $26.7 million to settle claims

Danish drug company Novo Nordisk has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it promoted the misuse of blood clotting drug NovoSeven, the US Justice Department announced Friday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0