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Education may improve hospital prescription rate of emergency contraception to teens

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department visits because of misinformation about how the medicine works, according to a study by The Children's ...





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New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border (AP)

New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(AP) -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among ...


Cell phone mania forces scramble for more airwaves (AP)

Cell phone mania forces scramble for more airwaves

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Wireless devices such as Apple's iPhone are transforming the way we go online, making it possible to look up driving directions, find the nearest coffee shop and update Facebook on the go. All this ...


First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US (AP)

First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(AP) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.


China defends role at Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 25, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

China has defended its role at this month's climate change talks in Copenhagen, saying Premier Wen Jiabao played a key part in sealing an accord, after critics blamed Beijing for blocking negotiations.


What connects the elderly and sports people? Smart sensor technology

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training.


Pollution linked to hospitalizations for pneumonia in older adults

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Older adults with long-term exposure to higher levels of pollution are at higher risk for hospitalization for pneumonia, according to researchers in Canada.


Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a new approach for treating and healing skin abscesses caused by bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The study ...


Could acetaminophen ease psychological pain?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Headaches and heartaches. Broken bones and broken spirits. Hurting bodies and hurt feelings. We often use the same words to describe physical and mental pain. Over-the-counter pain relieving drugs have long been used to alleviate ...


New human reproductive hormone could lead to novel contraceptives

New human reproductive hormone could lead to novel contraceptives

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening ...


Poll finds 3/4 of parents who tried to get H1N1 vaccine for their children have gotten it

Medicine & Health / Health

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

A new poll by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows the shortage of H1N1 vaccine for children is easing. As of late last week, three-quarters of parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children ...



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