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News media often do not report potential sources of bias in medical research

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An analysis of news media coverage of medical studies indicates that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, ...





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Inventing language

Inventing language

Technology / Engineering

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently ...


A motley collection of boneworms

A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...


University of Colorado butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle

Butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 ...


Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...


What computer science can teach economics

What computer science can teach economics

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor ...


In Europe, an orderly approach to swine flu shots (AP)

In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy ...


Hylas payload shipped to India

Hylas payload shipped to India

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hylas, a flexible, broadband Ka-band satellite, is steadily moving towards completion. The communications payload has been shipped from England to India for integration with the platform, ...


Garmin Nuvifone G60

GPS phone offerings: Price is Nuvifone G60's downfall; Navigon is on the money

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

GPS navigation is morphing from a cool luxury to just one more thing you expect out of a decent smart phone. But different phones approach the issue in different ways.


3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...


Economist argues that public-private partnerships are a must in creating an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT economist Jeffrey Harris argues that while the scientific obstacles to creating an HIV vaccine are great, the lack of commercial incentive poses a major problem.



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