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Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later

Medicine & Health / Health

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New research presents strong evidence that the "synergistic" effect of early-life exposure to both outdoor traffic-related pollution and indoor endotoxin causes more harm to developing lungs than one or the other exposure ...


Children unaffected by smoking ban consequences

Medicine & Health / Health

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The smoking ban in Wales has not displaced secondhand smoke from public places into the home. A study of 3500 children from 75 primary schools in Wales, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, found that t ...


HP's profit up 14 pct despite sales drop (AP)

HP profit jumps on cost cuts, new market expansion

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.


Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...


Amid the flu epidemic, don't forget RSV in young children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Influenza, particularly H1N1, has understandably captured the attention of public health officials, the media and the public. However, an analysis from Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department ...


Multiple health concerns surface as winter, vitamin D deficiences arrive

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

A string of recent discoveries about the multiple health benefits of vitamin D has renewed interest in this multi-purpose nutrient, increased awareness of the huge numbers of people who are deficient in it, spurred research ...


Exposures to metals and diesel emissions in air linked to respiratory symptoms in children

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Exposure shortly after birth to ambient metals from residential heating oil combustion and particles from diesel emissions are associated with respiratory symptoms in young inner city children, according to a new study by ...


Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on ...


The shore of Deception Island in Antarctica, in 2008

Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (24) | comments 33

The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study.


Dell's profit, stock drop on weak quarterly report (AP)

Dell's profit, stock drop on weak quarterly report

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of the computer-industry's biggest players - such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. - have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits.



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