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Study suggests LF elimination program is 'best buy in public health'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study published today concludes that in the ten years since its initiation, the international effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) has made a large impact towards ridding the world of one of its most debilitating ...





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Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide

Adobe cutting 680 jobs

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Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce.


LinkedIn was launched in 2003 as an online community for people to advance career and job prospects

Twitter links to LinkedIn

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Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website.


Many lack the skills to make good health decisions

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some 93 million Americans do not have the numerical skills necessary to make well-informed decisions about their medical care, reports a Cornell professor, who has some suggestions on changing that.


Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

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A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...


CWRU to develop technologies for virtual coaching to help patient-doctor communications

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Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases.


The missionary doctor

The missionary doctor

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Kenneth Chang has built one of the nation's finest digestive disease centers for UC Irvine Healthcare with a drive and passion inspired by doctors he assisted in a poor Taiwanese fishing ...


Unravelling the pathology of dementia

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

Combination therapies to tackle multiple changes in the brain may be needed to combat the growing problem of dementia in ageing societies, according to a study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The st ...


Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Technology / Energy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Automakers around the world continue to slowly infuse their cars and trucks with greener, more efficient technology, but researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute contend that technology alone will not ...


Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread

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Human movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The results, based on data from a severe epidemic in ...


EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun (AP)

EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S.



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