News tagged with events
Coronary imaging techniques helps to identify plaques likely to cause heart attacks
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Late-breaking results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them through ...
Probing Question: Is football similar to Roman gladiator games?
Sep 17, 2009 |
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On six more Saturdays between now and mid-November, a caravan of pilgrims will arrive at University Park, Pennsylvania. Many will sport outlandishly colorful attire. Some will appear days beforehand and live ...
War, genocide 'difficult knowledge' to teach younger students
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Whether they're found in a museum or a textbook, historical narratives about traumatic events such as war and genocide are better left to older students, who have typically developed a more refined historical ...
Emergency physician judgment on chest pain patients syncs with their outcomes
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Emergency physicians should trust their judgment when evaluating patients who report with chest pain symptoms, said a group of researchers led by Abhinav Chandra, M.D., at Duke University Medical Center.
Study reveals mounting evidence of fish oil's heart health benefits
Aug 03, 2009 |
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There is mounting evidence that omega-3 fatty acids from fish or fish oil supplements not only help prevent cardiovascular diseases in healthy individuals, but also reduce the incidence of cardiac events and mortality in ...
Crashing comets not likely the cause of Earth's mass extinctions: new research
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth's history were triggered by a space body crashing into the planet's surface. Most agree that an asteroid collision 65 million ...
Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
When did humans return after last Ice Age?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford ...
Energetic bottleneck factors in catastrophic winter seabird losses
Jul 17, 2009 |
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It's a terrible sight: hundreds of dead seabirds washed up on the seashore. These catastrophic events occur in the winter and are known as winter wrecks. No one knows why the birds perish, and it is almost impossible to study ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder: Psychological treatments may not prevent PTSD
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Psychological interventions intended to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the early stages after a traumatic experience have not been shown to be effective, Cochrane Researchers have concluded. ...
Afghani children suffering from post-traumatic stress
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Children who live in Afghanistan are particularly affected every day by a multitude of war time stressors which increase the likelihood of developing PTSD: trauma, child labor, and family and military violence. On a daily ...
Inflammation markers linked more with fatal than nonfatal cardiovascular events in elderly
Jun 23, 2009 |
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A study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that for elderly people at risk of cardiovascular disease, the presence of inflammatory markers in the blood can identify that an individual is at ...
Ancient drought and rapid cooling drastically altered climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate.
Intensive glucose control in diabetics reduces heart attacks
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A meta-analysis of five trials has shown that more intensive glucose control in diabetes leads to fewer heart attacks and heart disease events - but has no significant effect on stroke or mortality from all ...
Aspirin appears to help lower risk of stroke for patients with peripheral artery disease
May 12, 2009 |
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An analysis of previous studies indicates that among patients with peripheral artery disease, aspirin use is associated with a statistically nonsignificant decrease in the risk of a group of combined cardiovascular events ...
