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Study to explore if more sleep will help teens shake off depression

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After a late night of texting or updating Facebook, it's hardly surprising that many teenagers show up groggy for school, which studies have shown can diminish academic performance. To address this troubling ...


Recognizing children's successes in all areas may prevent teenage depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Students' successes in the first grade can affect more than their future report cards. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found links among students' weak academic performance in the first grade, self-perceptions ...





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Antitumor activity of nutlin-3 in neuroblastoma with wild-type p53

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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The small-molecule inhibitor nutlin-3 may be a viable treatment option for neuroblastoma patients with wild-type p53 activity, according to a new study published online November 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer In ...


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

Medicine & Health / Health

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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 ...


The missionary doctor

The missionary doctor

Medicine & Health / Other

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

(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 ...


Discussing adverse events with patients improves how they rate their hospital care

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

A survey of patients had who experienced some sort of adverse event during their hospitalization found that, although caregivers discussed the event with patients less than half the time, those patients to whom the adverse ...


Darwin meets Facebook

Biology / Other

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

Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. Now researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created ...


The upside of feeling down

The upside of feeling down

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 4

A chill wind chases you into the door of your local newsagent. Rain is drumming down outside. As you pay for your newspaper, you briefly notice a number of strange items on the checkout counter - a matchbox ...


Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management ...


Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities.


Study: Credit crisis, debt load a double whammy for investment

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Firms with heavy long-term debt that came due amid the nation's recent credit crisis slashed investment more than three times as much as companies whose paybacks ducked the meltdown, a new University of Illinois study found.


Study finds those with more difficult to treat forms of HCV are half as likely to get treated

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by Mount Sinai researchers has for the first time found that patients with more difficult to treat forms of hepatitis C are half as likely to initiate treatment for the disease, when compared to patients with ...



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