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Apple announced that developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs

Apple's booming App Store tops 100,000 programs

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices.


Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence

Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...


Depressed women can lose weight as successfully as others do

Medicine & Health / Health

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Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Instit ...


Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by ...


Teens' mental health affects how long they stay in school, new study shows

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Queen's University researcher Steven Lehrer has won a prestigious international award in recognition of his contributions to health economics.


Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on ...


TV bombards children with commercials for high-fat and high-sugar foods

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role ...


Drug ads ineffective for boosting sales, could cost taxpayers: study

Medicine & Health / Health

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

US Taxpayers may be on the hook for the high cost of drug advertising that does little to boost sales, according to a new study led by a University of British Columbia health policy researcher.


PMH finding may help some tonsil cancer patients avoid chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) have confirmed that patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer ("tonsil cancer") harbour a common type of human papilloma virus (HPV16), but also that such cancers ...


US gets a 'D' for preterm birth rate

US gets a 'D' for preterm birth rate

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the second consecutive year, the United States earned only a "D" on the March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card, demonstrating that more than half a million of our nation's newborns didn't get the ...



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