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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 ...


Childhood lead exposure causes permanent brain damage

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

A study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate brain function revealed that adults who were exposed to lead as children incur permanent brain injury. The results were presented today at the annual ...


Barn personnel experience higher-than-average rates of respiratory symptoms

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study undertaken earlier this year ...


A quantum leap forward?

A quantum leap forward?

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 8

The dusty boxes that line the walls of Jeff Barrett's UC Irvine office mark a high point in his academic career. Their contents: pages and pages of notes, most more than 50 years old, penned by late quantum ...


Research calls for better assessment of tests for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease. However, a team headed by Dr. Madhukar Pai at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) ...


Medical students regularly stuck by needles, often fail to report injuries

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical students are commonly stuck by needles -- putting them at risk of contracting potentially dangerous blood-borne diseases -- and many of them fail to report the injuries to hospital authorities, according to a Johns ...


Low-income women 4 times more likely to report fair or poor health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Low-income women are four times more likely than higher-income women to report fair or poor health and nearly twice as likely to report a health condition that limits their basic physical activities, according to a new policy ...


Stimulus grant will improve physics arXiv

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work.


Acute heart attack patients receiving high ionizing radiation dose

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Acute heart attack patients received an average total dose of ionizing radiation equal to 725 chest X-rays from medical tests during their hospital stay, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's ...


WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.



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