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X-rays help predict permanent bone damage from bisphosphonates

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients, individuals at risk for osteoporosis and those undergoing certain types of bone cancer therapies often take drugs containing bisphosphonates. These drugs have been found to place people at risk for ...





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This handout photo received in September 2009 courtesy of the University of Connecticut (UConn) shows a skull fragment

Hitler skull fragment in Moscow authentic: FSB

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An officer with the Russian intelligence service the FSB on Monday dismissed a US report suggesting a fragment of Hitler's skull held in Moscow is actually from a woman, insisting their relic is genuine.


Review: New headsets let you shoot the breeze (AP)

Review: New headsets let you shoot the breeze

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Bluetooth wireless headsets have become a lot better in the last few years at picking out the user's voice from noisy surroundings.


Model head of a Neanderthal man.

Did modern humans eat Neanderthals?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (15) | comments 7

Modern humans may have eaten Neanderthals, scientists report in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences this month.


New fossil tells how piranhas got their teeth

New fossil tells how piranhas got their teeth

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

How did piranhas -- the legendary freshwater fish with the razor bite -- get their telltale teeth? Researchers from Argentina, the United States and Venezuela have uncovered the jawbone of a striking transitional ...


Surgical technique helps to reanimate paralyzed faces

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created Jul 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A surgical technique known as temporalis tendon transfer, in conjunction with intense physical therapy before and after surgery, may help reanimate the features of those with facial paralysis, according to a report in the ...


Good dentistry may have saved the dinosaurs

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Infectious diseases can be transmitted by sneezing, touching, or - for Tasmanian devils - biting each other on the face, a habit that may have driven the dinosaurs to extinction through the transmission of a protozoan parasite.


New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.


Prehistoric human skeleton found in Texas

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 28, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

U.S. archaeologists have excavated what appears to be the skeleton possibly 2,000 years old from the shores of a lake near Austin, Texas.


USC School of Dentistry researchers uncover link between osteoporosis drugs and jaw infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A group of University of Southern California School of Dentistry researchers says it has identified the slimy culprits killing the jawbones of some people taking drugs that treat osteoporosis.


Seeing through tooth decay

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dental caries afflict at least 90% of the world's population at some time in their lives. Detecting the first signs of this disease, which can be lethal in extreme cases, just got easier thanks to work by researchers in India ...



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