News tagged with control


CDC now says 4,000 swine flu deaths in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using.


90 percent of Africans are not protected by smoke-free laws

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

As African nations are poised to undergo the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain without meaningful protection from secondhand smoke, ...


People with less education could be more susceptible to the flu

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People who did not earn a high school diploma could be more likely to get H1N1 and the vaccine might be less effective in them compared to those who earned a diploma, new research shows.


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

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | 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.