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Could arthritis wonder drugs provide clues for all disease?

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 1

Drugs that have helped treat millions of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers may hold the key to many more medical conditions, including atherosclerosis – a leading cause of heart disease – says the researcher who jointly invented ...





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Why don't robins get fat?

Why don't robins get fat?

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by the School of Biosciences is shedding light on the reasons why the European robin doesn’t get fat -even though they are feeding for much longer.


Paleoecologists offer new insight into how climate change will affect organisms

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science written by a team of ecologists, including Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the po ...


Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, ...


Graphite oxide at high pressure opens a road to new amazing nano-materials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New results by scientists at Umeľ University, Sweden, show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under high pressure conditions. The ...


Despite some benefit, drug ads can be harmful to your health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While the debate over prescription drug advertising persists, a new study released online in the American Journal of Public Health offers guidelines for improving drug ads in order to minimize potential harm and maximize ...


Unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds to fan scores of blazes in the country's southeastern states

Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.


New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.


Hard Winter Wheat Varieties Released

Hard Winter Wheat Varieties Released

Biology / Other

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States have been released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).


Dispensing prescription drugs in 3-month supplies reduces drug costs by a third

Dispensing prescription drugs in 3-month supplies reduces drug costs by a third

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Purchasing prescription drugs in a three-month supply rather than a one-month supply has long been regarded as a way to reduce the cost of drugs for patients and third-party payers. New research from the University ...


Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (16) | comments 2

The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.



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