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Mammography use among women younger than 40 years old differ between minority populations

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer screening guidelines generally recommend mammography begin at age 40. However, based on prior national research, an estimated 34 percent of non-Hispanic black women, 30 percent of non-Hispanic white women and ...


Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill

Medicine & Health / Health

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

(AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.


Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings (AP)

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(AP) -- As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according ...


Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When a government-appointed panel of experts released new guidelines last month calling for fewer routine mammograms, they were met with public confusion, political outrage, and a media storm that left women ...


Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dutch researcher Igor Berezhnoy has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable ...


Two workers make their final preparations for the Taipei Book Fair

Taiwan to invest 65 million dollars in e-book industry

Technology / Business

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taiwan plans to invest more than 65 million US dollars in its competitive electronic-book sector over the next five years, the economic ministry's Industrial Development Bureau said.


Tech and teens

Tech and teens

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko "Mimi" Ito has found, and schools should take note.


Best go digital in a pandemic

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of a digital checklist for patients being administered emergency drugs during a pandemic or following a biological terrorist attack reduces the fatigue factor, according to a report in the International Journal of ...


A general view of one of the interactive video installations at the "Decode: Digital Design Sensations" exhibition

Interactive digital art show opens in London

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The creative side of information technology went on display in London this week, in an arresting new interactive show including glowing reeds and a blinking mechanical eye.


Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?

Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An infra-red digital camera could be a crucial tool in the fight against crime when trying to identify suspects by their tattoos, according to new University of Derby research.



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