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Extra support helps obese women cycle to and from work
May 05, 2009 |
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Increased daily exercise can prevent diabetes and cardiovascular disease in obese women, but getting started and maintaining new habits is a challenge. A new study by researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska ...
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Why Weight Watchers succeeds: Meetings provide a blend of spirituality and therapy
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Weight Watchers is the world's largest support group, with more than 1.5 million members worldwide. What makes overweight consumers turn to this organization for help? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says d ...
Microsoft keeps dividend, opens investor question
Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. will pay shareholders a quarterly dividend of 13 cents, the same as last quarter.
Investigator attendance at review board reviews: hindrance or help?
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Inviting researchers to attend institutional review board sessions designed to approve these same investigators’ requests to conduct research involving human subjects doesn’t seem to affect the efficiency of the process one ...
Researcher finds Girl Scout meetings provide an opportunity to increase girls' physical activity
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Girls typically are less physically active than boys, but a Kansas State University researcher has found that organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting to get girls moving early in life and to develop lifelong ...
Genetic research using human samples requires new types of informed consent
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Genetic studies involving the long term storage and study of human samples hold great promise for medical research—but they also pose new threats to individuals such as uninsurability, unemployability, and discrimination, ...
Why your boss is white, middle-class and a show-off
Oct 03, 2008 |
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The way male managers power dress, posture and exercise power is due to humans' evolutionary biology, according to research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Officials Review Readiness for Endeavour Shuttle Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2008 |
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NASA's senior officials and Space Shuttle Program managers are meeting today for the Flight Readiness Review, a standard process leading up to any shuttle mission. Known simply by its acronym FRR, the two-day ...
Statins do not interfere with rituximab treatment for lymphomas, study finds
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, do not interfere with a commonly used medication to treat lymphomas, according to a Mayo Clinic study presented today at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Soc ...
'Stay Dry' tested to help men with incontinence problems from prostate cancer treatments
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Following surgery and radiation treatments for prostate cancer, most men suffer some degree of incontinence. For approximately 14 percent of these men, the problem lingers five years later.
Low-carb diets prove better at controlling type 2 diabetes
Jan 05, 2009 |
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In a six-month comparison of low-carb diets, one that encourages eating carbohydrates with the lowest-possible rating on the glycemic index leads to greater improvement in blood sugar control, according to Duke University ...
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