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Most primary-care physician practices appear too small to adequately measure quality

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices with too few patients to reliably measure significant differences in common measures of quality and cost performance, according to a study in the ...


Getting a 'Head Start' on obesity prevention

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Almost 1 million preschool children from low-income families are enrolled in Head Start, a national program for young children that readies them for school. While the program provides them with educational and social skill ...


77 percent of European pigs are castrated without anesthetic

77 percent of European pigs are castrated without anesthetic

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The castration of pigs prevents the "boar taint" smell in the meat and allows them to contain more fat. However in practice this can be very different. Now, for the first time, a scientific team has collected ...


FTC expands Intel anti-competition probe, sources say

Technology / Business

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Federal Trade Commission has broadened its investigation of Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Intel beyond the company's competition with Advanced Micro Devices to include at least one other Silicon Valley company, Nvidia, ...


FTC: Children still marketed violent content

Technology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.


Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff — placed between lip and gum — has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's ...


The blood detective

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) --UCI hematologist Dr. Jae Chang employs medical sleuthing skills to identify rare blood disorders.


Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women's transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.


Texas Tech Using Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Peanut Crops

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield.


Genetic studies reveal new causes of severe obesity in childhood

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that the loss of a key segment of DNA can lead to severe childhood obesity. This is the first study to show that this kind of genetic alteration can cause obesity. The results are published ...



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