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Study finds over 90 percent of people with gum disease are at risk for diabetes
Dec 14, 2009 |
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The study, led by Dr. Shiela Strauss, Associate Professor of Nursing and Co-Director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined data from 2,923 adult participants in the ...
Research Suggests New Approach to Using Assessment Results to Improve Classroom Instruction
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Education researchers at the University of Arkansas have taken an important first step toward better understanding both formative assessment and how to get the information teachers need to ...
Parents encourage underage drinking
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Half of Australian adults and 63 per cent of Australians on a higher income believe 15 to 17 year olds should be allowed to consume alcohol under parental supervision at home, according to the latest MBF Healthwatch survey.
National survey tracks rates of common mental disorders among American youth
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Only about half of American children and teenagers who have certain mental disorders receive professional services, according to a nationally representative survey funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health ...
Nevada professor devises new childhood obesity screening tools
Dec 03, 2009 |
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A University of Nevada, Reno professor who thinks the present weight management charts and screening tools for children are too difficult to understand and use has devised new, simpler charts that pediatricians ...
2/3 of Australians unlikely to get vaccinated against swine flu
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Australia risks a serious swine flu (H1N1 influenza virus) outbreak with two-thirds (65 per cent) of unprotected Australians stating they're unlikely to get vaccinated against the disease in the next 12 months, according ...
Racial disparity in lung cancer rates narrowed in young adults due to larger decrease in smoking
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Effective prevention of smoking among teenagers, particularly black teenagers, is narrowing the disparity in lung cancer rates between blacks and whites, according to a report published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & ...
Stem cell derived neurons for research relevant to Alzheimer's and Niemann-Pick type C diseases
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer's ...
Callers of all incomes ditching landlines for cell
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The number of households with cell phones but no landlines continues to grow, but the recession doesn't seem to be forcing poor cellular users to abandon their traditional wired phones any faster than higher-income ...
China rapidly catching up in research impact
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Data from a recent Thomson Reuters study show that Chinese research output has increased from just over 20,000 papers in 1998 to nearly 112,000 in 2008.
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