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Alcohol advice needs to play a greater role in sex education for teenagers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Alcohol and attitudes are two of the key factors that health professionals need to be aware of when they are dealing with sexually active teenagers.





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Population segments differ on perceptions of cognitive health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new special issue of The Gerontologist has identified for the first time how ethnically, culturally, linguistically, and geographically diverse groups think about aging and brain health.


Medical 'pay for performance' programs help improve care -- but not always, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Like everybody, health care professionals enjoy a pay raise for a job well done. But in some instances, financial incentives for health care performance may actually backfire.


Swirl uses algorithms, metadata, and facial recognition software to distinguish digital images

Google image search gets a 'swirl'

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages.


UN demands removal of China poster at Net event

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters ...


Pregnant women who are lesbians want to be treated like any other expectant mother

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Midwives often struggle to meet the needs of pregnant women who are lesbians, with patients reporting that the focus is often on their sexuality rather than the fact that they are expecting a baby, according to research in ...


One disease, not one demographic

Medicine & Health / Health

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

The Asian continent has nearly four billion people living in 47 different countries, and each of these groups has their own unique set of health issues. But when they come to the United States, they're often lumped into one ...


Online collaboration with built-in clarity

Online collaboration with built-in clarity

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally threaten the dominance of email as the world's premier collaboration ...


Meditation may be an effective treatment for insomnia

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Meditation may be an effective behavioral intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to a research abstract that will be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies


Study lays foundation for more patient access to medical records

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that many patients are dissatisfied with the way they receive results of radiology tests and want more access to information in their medical ...


Scientists and public differ on views about nanotechnology regulation

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to regulating nanotechnology - a burgeoning global industry with wide-ranging potential applications - a new study led by professors Dietram Scheufele at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...



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