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Federal probe finds problems with chelation study

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(AP) -- A federal investigation has found problems with a controversial study of an alternative medicine treatment for heart attack victims.





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Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body

Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in Canada and China are reporting development of a new dental filling material that substitutes natural ingredients from the human body for controversial ingredients in existing “composite,” or ...


Fibromyalgia pain may cause memory blips

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The chronic pain from Fibromyalgia is devastating, but the suffering doesn't end there. According to a new study by the University of Alberta's Bruce Dick, people with the disease may have disruption in their ...


Study casts new light on research of controversial scientist Paul Kammerer

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A new study into the research of the renowned Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer may help to end the controversy which has engulfed his research for almost a century. The study, published in The Journal of Experimental Zo ...


Offsetting perceptions: Firms use charitable giving to clean up their international reputation

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

British multinationals operating in countries that lack basic human rights give around 70% more money to charity than firms that do not have a presence in such politically controversial nations, a new study has revealed.


Looking through the broken mirror

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at The University of Nottingham are hoping to learn more about the causes of autism and Asperger's Syndrome, by putting a controversial theory to the test.


Does gene show link between migraine and stroke or heart attacks?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research looks at whether a gene variant may affect the link between migraine and stroke or heart attacks. The study is published in the February 17, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...


Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes ...


Controversial kidney transplant technique could provide lifeline for very ill patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgeons who successfully performed kidney transplants after removing small cancerous and benign masses from the donated organs, have published their results in the December issue of the urology journal BJUI.


School voucher adoption affected by political decision-making

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In many countries, school vouchers have come to be a controversial policy which allows parents to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school to which they are assigned. ...


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Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found ...



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