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Senior-citizen volunteers fight Medicare fraud

Medicine & Health / Health

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(AP) -- The first box that arrived at Shirley Shupp's door was filled with braces to help with her arthritis. Then came a motorized scooter, just like the one the 69-year-old already owned. She hadn't asked for any of it ...


Acupuncture reduces hot flashes, improves sex drive for breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Not only is acupuncture as effective as drug therapy at reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients, it has the added benefit of potentially increasing a woman's sex drive and improving her sense of well-being, according ...


Neuroscientists uncover possible basis of short-term memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience and physiology/biophysics, and Phillip Larimer, PhD, a MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...


Poll finds 3/4 of parents who tried to get H1N1 vaccine for their children have gotten it

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new poll by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows the shortage of H1N1 vaccine for children is easing. As of late last week, three-quarters of parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children ...


Poor face greater health burden than smokers or the obese

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The average low-income person loses 8.2 years of perfect health, the average high school dropout loses 5.1 years, and the obese lose 4.2 years, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. ...


Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.


'Happy housewife' myth debunked by new book

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many believe that 1950s cinema portrayed women as complacent, conservative housewives who liked nothing better than to rustle up a three-course meal for their hardworking husbands, but a new book has shown ...


Efforts under way to make Web more accessible (AP)

Efforts under way to make Web more accessible

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn't distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to ...


Neuroscience in the driving seat

Neuroscience in the driving seat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It emerged today that more drivers are using hand-held mobile phones than two years ago, despite the introduction of tougher penalties. The Transport Research Laboratory is worried because phone-using drivers ...


Computing with a wave of the hand

Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...



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