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Small changes can lead to big rewards, says ASN president

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Small changes can lead to big rewards, such as maintaining a healthy weight, American Society for Nutrition (ASN) President James O. Hill, PhD, describes in a recent report. The article, to be published in the February issue ...





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Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...


Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...


Healthy babies by the numbers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When a fetus is smaller than expected for the number of weeks of pregnancy, due to associated problems like a poorly developed heart, health concerns as severe as brain damage can result.


Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...


Sleep apnea therapy improves golf game

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Golfers who undergo treatment for sleep apnea may improve their golf game as well as their overall health, shows new research. A new study presented at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific assembly of the ...


Cell phones become handheld tools for global development

Cell phones become handheld tools for global development

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.


A look at public policies and motorcycle safety in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One of the joys of riding a motorcycle is the freedom that comes with that form of travel. However the absence of physical barriers to protect riders puts motorcyclists at a higher risk of injury than other motorists. Motorcycle ...


A new way to measure muscle

A new way to measure muscle

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after taking a faculty position at MIT, Joel Dawson '96, SM '97 got together with his former music teacher, Elena Ruehr, for coffee. Ruehr, an MIT lecturer in music and theater arts, ...


AP sources: Health bill may cut employer mandate (AP)

AFL-CIO head flexible on taxing high-value plans

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- The head of the AFL-CIO said Monday he's willing to consider a tax on high-end health insurance plans to help pay for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, as long as middle-class workers ...


Industry backs off food labels after FDA criticism (AP)

Industry backs off food labels after FDA criticism

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal regulators said such systems may be misleading consumers, officials with the group said Friday.



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