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Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal ...


Parents just don't understand

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recent studies investigating the question of parental control in the west and in east Asian countries suggest that extreme meddling by parents can have negative effects on their children's psychological development in both ...


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Google providing better view of personal data

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.


Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry

Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry

Biology / Ecology

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

Research scientists at Nova Scotia Agricultural College have been working steadily to find effective organic methods to control weeds in cultivated blueberry crops. One resulting study, published in a recent ...


Digital 'plaster' for monitoring vital signs undergoes first clinical trials

Digital 'plaster' for monitoring vital signs undergoes first clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A wireless digital 'plaster' that can monitor vital signs continuously and remotely is being tried out with patients and healthy volunteers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in a new clinical trial ...


CDC: Swine flu kids' deaths jump to 114 (AP)

CDC: Swine flu kids' deaths jump to 114

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Swine flu has caused at least 19 more children's deaths - the largest one-week increase since the pandemic started in April, health officials said Friday.


Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia (AP)

Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.


Mecca-bound pilgrims prompt swine flu precautions

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of the millions who travel to Saudi Arabia next month for the annual hajj will be greeted with face masks, hand sanitizer and fever checks as health officials strive to stem the spread of swine flu during the ...


'Moonlighting' molecules discovered

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionally contain in our genome ...


New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Canines and a bio-control organism come to the rescue of Guam's coconut trees in efforts to control an invasive species plaguing the island.


Depressed pregnant women could be at higher risk for severe response to flu infection

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pregnant women with significant symptoms of depression tend to have a stronger biological reaction to the seasonal flu vaccine than do women with lower depression levels, according to a new study.


US swine flu vaccine outlook improving, CDC says

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- More than 22 million doses of swine flu vaccine are available now, and most Americans should soon find it easier to get their dose, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.


US swine flu deaths surpass 1,000

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health officials say swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been.


WHO: nearly 5,000 swine flu deaths worldwide

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- Nearly 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday.


Swine flu pediatric deaths in US rise to 95

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The government's latest figures show swine flu is widespread across the country and increasing in almost every state. It's now caused at least 95 children's deaths since April.