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Respiratory risk from hospital cleaning fluids

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cleaning fluids used in hospitals may pose a health risk to both staff and patients. A pilot study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Environmental Health has found that potentially hazardous chemicals are cont ...


Study Reveals Use of Cleaning Products During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Asthma in Young Children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Brunel University researcher suggests that chemicals in household cleaning products explains why excessive hygiene is linked to increased asthma and allergies.





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FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs (AP)

FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by biotechnology firm Genzyme.


FDA questions safety of alcoholic energy drinks

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 6

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy drinks to prove their beverages are safe, citing complaints that the products can cause risky behavior and injury.


Expert advises automakers to take it slow on road to recovery

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supply chain expert Panos Kouvelis says it's time for the auto industry to go through a period of capacity rationalization.


Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...


Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs (AP)

Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...


LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid based separations.


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.


With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What life form can use materials as nutrients that we, and most other animals, would consider waste products?



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