News tagged with increase
Life got bigger in two, million-fold leaps, scientists say
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Extremes are exciting. Does anyone really think dinosaurs would capture our imagination the way they do if they hadn't been so huge? You don't see natural history museums vying for fossil skeletons ...
Global warming threatens Australia's iconic kangaroos
Oct 15, 2008 |
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As concerns about the effects of global warming continue to mount, a new study published in the December issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology finds that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsiu ...
Aspirin and atherosclerosis
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Aspirin has become one of the most widely used medications in the world, owing to its ability to reduce pain, fevers, inflammation, and blood clotting. In animal studies, aspirin has also been shown to prevent atherosclerosis, ...
How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, shows that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. ...
NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists ...
Eating whole grains lowers heart failure risk, according to new study
Oct 27, 2008 |
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About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers ...
Symptoms of depression associated with increase in abdominal fat
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Older adults with symptoms of depression appear more likely to gain abdominal fat, but not overall fat, over a five-year period, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Measuring the effects of temperature increases in the Antarctic fauna
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey subjected species found in Antarctic waters to increasing levels of water temperature to learn how well they would cope with a warmer ocean. The study, to be presented at the ...
Wildfires set to increase 50 percent by 2050
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The area of forest burnt by wildfires in the United States is set to increase by over 50% by 2050, according to research by climate scientists.
Raising alcohol taxes reduces deaths
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Raising taxes on beer, wine and liquor immediately reduces the number of deaths from alcohol-related diseases such as liver disease, oral or breast cancers, and alcohol poisoning, according to a new study published in the ...
European ancestry increases breast cancer risk among Latinas
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Latina women have a lower risk of breast cancer than European or African-American women generally, but those with higher European ancestry could be at increased risk, according to data published in the December 1 issue of ...
US suicide rate increasing: Largest increase seen in middle-aged white women
Oct 21, 2008 |
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The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase ...
No jobs, no insurance: hard times for young adults
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Emily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelry maker she'll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year.
Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances
May 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- There is no easy fix.
Only tax increase can cure Illinois budget woes, study says
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois ...
