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Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health ...


Health journalists utilize audience, other media to build news agenda

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Approximately one-fifth of Americans follow health news very closely, according to the Pew Research Center. To identify how the demand for health stories is met, University of Missouri researchers surveyed national health ...


PR pros are good ethical thinkers, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

For years journalists and others have questioned the ethics of public relations practitioners and firms. People in PR, however, appear to be getting a bad rap. That's what a new study funded by the Arthur W. Page Center ...





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'Angry' extroverts should do best in the ring

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boxers are renowned for upping the ante by trading slurs and insults at pre-fight weigh-ins or press conferences - but research by sports psychologists suggests that the role goes beyond showmanship. If effectively ...


Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP)

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture

Space & Earth / Environment

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.


Exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood home associated with early emphysema in adulthood

Medicine & Health / Health

created 16 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. This finding by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that the lungs may ...


Drug-resistant urinary tract infections spreading worldwide

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A sudden worldwide increase in an antibiotic-resistant bacterium is cause for concern, according to a review in f1000 Medicine Reports.


Social networking changing the way we travel (AP)

Social networking changing the way we travel

Technology / Internet

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water tubing, and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in ...


Study on Great Lakes erosion dredges up controversy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Great Lakes aren't as great as they once were. A U.S.-Canadian study released Tuesday reveals that unexpected erosion in the St. Clair River following a 1962 dredging project has permanently lowered Lakes Michigan and ...


No More 'Social Media,' More Single Log-ins for Multiple Platforms

Technology / Internet

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As more people use social media platforms, they will begin moving away from using the term 'social media' in the new year, predicts Dr. Karla Gower, associate professor of advertising and public relations.


Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development

Biology / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called Category Theory, the ...


EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health (AP)

EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (10) | comments 46

(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.


For stars, high-tech gaffes hard to hide (AP)

For stars, high-tech gaffes hard to hide

Technology / Internet

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- So, you fail to take a deep breath and to count to 10 - and you post something you probably shouldn't on Twitter or Facebook, or somewhere else online.



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