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Recognizing signs and symptoms of acute HF

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although heart failure is a chronic condition, acute exacerbations are frequent and occur with serious complications; patients with heart failure and their families can help improve prognosis in acute events if they are taught ...





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Researchers find new patterns in H1N1 deaths

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Brazilian researchers have performed the first-ever autopsy study to examine the precise causes of death in victims of the H1N1 swine flu.


Feeding the clock

Feeding the clock: Cycles of feeding and fasting drive circadian gene expression in the liver

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands ...


Angraecum sesquipedale ('Comet Orchid')

The evolution of orchids

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Darwin and many other scientists have long been puzzled by the evolution of orchids, the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants on Earth. Now genetic sequencing is giving ...


A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tom Parker has made an unusual find. In California forests and shrubland that burned in 2008, he has spotted Manzanita seedlings sprouting in tight clusters, suggesting that the young shrubs emerged from underground ...


Nocturnal wind maximum mapped for first time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On beautiful, sunny days with quiet weather conditions a strong wind develops in the evening at a height of about 200 metres.


Statins may worsen symptoms in some cardiac patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Although statins are widely used to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular disorders, new research shows that the class of drugs may actually have negative effects on some cardiac patients. A new study presented ...


Teeth grinding linked to sleep apnea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There is a high prevalence of nocturnal teeth grinding, or bruxism, in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), particularly in Caucasians. New research presented at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific ...


Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. One of the fathers of medicine, the great ...


First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds

First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South ...


Light at night linked to symptoms of depression in mice

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Too much light at night can lead to symptoms of depression, according to a new study in mice. Researchers found that mice housed in a lighted room 24 hours a day exhibited more depressive symptoms than did similar mice that ...



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