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How to treat fevers in African children up for debate

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new debate in the open access journal PLoS Medicine questions whether all African children with fever should be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs, or if treatment should wait until laboratory tests confirm malari ...





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Malaria makes relapsing fever more serious

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Malaria and the Borrelia infection relapsing fever are diseases with similar symptoms that can occur simultaneously. In such cases, the malaria is moderated while the relapsing fever becomes more serious. This is shown in ...


Plasmodium vivax -- challenging the dogma of being 'benign'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plasmodium. vivax can cause severe malaria associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, show two studies published in PLoS Medicine this week. These findings challenge the current dogma that P. falciparum can be sev ...


How embryo movement stimulates joint formation

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism that explains why joints fail to develop in embryos with paralyzed limbs. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Developmental Cell, answers a long ...


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Election forecasters preparing for historic election

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (7) | comments 14

Anticipating what is likely to be one of the most interesting elections in modern history, University at Buffalo professor of political science James E. Campbell and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, professor of political ...


Breast cancer risk varies among women who are carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer risk varies widely among women who are carriers of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, according to a new study published in the


Arab Americans continue to face both stigma and acceptance

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Arab and Muslim Americans continue to face an unusual degree of both discrimination and acceptance, according to a University of Michigan researcher who headed an in-depth study of the nation's most visible Arab and Chaldean ...


Arrival method, slow response often delay stroke care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most stroke patients can't recall when their symptoms started or do not arrive at the hospital in a timely manner, so they cannot be considered for time-dependent therapies such as the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen ...


Research: No evidence for 'too big to fail' policies

Research: No evidence for 'too big to fail' policies

Other Sciences / Economics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to ...


Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.


A test for new physics, including string theory

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (75) | comments 0

Detractors of string theory have been deriding it for years, claiming that there is no way to test it. However, with a paper published in Physical Review Letters titled “Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW Scattering”, that c ...



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