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RI tracking swine flu through electronic records

Medicine & Health / Health

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

(AP) -- Rhode Island health officials are using electronic prescription records to track the spread of swine flu.


Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science (AP)

Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 1

(AP) -- Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, slowly waddles the elephant seal.


Motivational readiness for alcohol/drug treatment is more about self-evaluation than consequences

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People entering treatment for alcohol or drug problems have different motivations for entering treatment and wanting to change their drinking habits. Those motivations have a significant effect on treatment attendance and ...


Nile Delta fishery grows dramatically thanks to run-off of sewage, fertilizers

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2

While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s.


Great Lakes water level sensitive to climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The water level in the Great Lakes has varied by only about two meters during the last century, helping them to play a vital role in the region's shipping, fishing, recreation and power generation industries.