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Mountain on Mars may answer big question
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about ...
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Gadgets: Digital photo gift ideas
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Once again it's that shopping time of year and if digital photography is on your shopping list, here is a roundup of accessories to kick off the season.
Lava flows in Daedalia Planum
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.
Google acquires Web security firm reCAPTCHA
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google announced on Wednesday that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that produces the squiggly words used by websites to guard against spam and fraud.
Hearing to air VA mistakes with hospital equipment
Jun 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast ...
Congressional panel to analyze VA hospital mishaps
May 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A congressional panel will question Department of Veterans Affairs officials about mistakes that put patients at risk of possible exposure to HIV and other infectious body fluids at three VA hospitals.
Miami VA: Steps taken to prevent contamination
May 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The top Veterans Affairs official in Miami said Tuesday she has taken steps locally to prevent the kind of problems that exposed patients to contaminated medical equipment at VA hospitals in three states.
Smoking interferes with recovery from alcohol-related brain damage
May 11, 2009 |
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Alcohol-use disorders (AUDs) can damage the brain, particularly the frontal and parietal cortices, although this damage is at least partially reversible with sustained abstinence from alcohol. Chronic smoking is extremely ...
Doctor: HIV infections will never be traced to VA
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Former patients who tested positive for HIV or hepatitis will not be able to show they were infected by tainted equipment at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, a top doctor for the agency ...
VA: 5th HIV case linked to unsterile equipment
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May 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A fifth patient has tested positive for HIV, and seven more tested positive for hepatitis after being exposed to contaminated medical equipment at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, the agency said Friday.
Magnitude of dirty VA hospital equipment unknown
Apr 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple ...
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