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Limited resources, unlimited needs: Americans should ration health care, says MSU ethicist

Medicine & Health / Health

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

As health care costs soar past $2.5 trillion and more than 47 million people remain uninsured, Americans must be willing to give up certain medical options to ensure health care reform is successful, argues a Michigan State ...





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PBS's 'NewsHour' to use reporting from GlobalPost

Technology / Internet

created 7 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" plans to beef up its international coverage with help from the startup news outfit GlobalPost.


Coverage of inexpensive drugs may increase length and quality of life after heart attack

Medicine & Health / Health

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Providing free medications to people after heart attack could add years to patients' lives at a relatively low cost for provincial governments, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...


Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome

Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destination in biological cells. The studies used molecular ...


Bioengineers succeed in producing plastic without the use of fossil fuels

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0

A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, ...


'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique ...


Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?

Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn't shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. ...


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


Researchers focus on helping dying patients take care of unfinished business

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Hospice workers have watched patients emerge from comas and cling to life long enough to tell someone they love or forgive them.



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