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An unconscionable conscience rule

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 22

Doctors take an oath to put their patients' interests first. A new Bush administration rule will change that. The so-called "conscience rule" is one of a host of last-minute regulatory changes being made in the waning hours ...


Century-old rule of chemistry overturned -- major implications for drug delivery

Chemistry /

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 1

A new study by research chemists at the University of Warwick has challenged a century old rule of pharmacology that defined how quickly key chemicals can pass across cell walls. The new observations of the Warwick researchers ...


Analysis Shows Uptick Rule Vital to Market Stability

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute found that interpretations of data from an SEC pilot program used to justify the repeal of the "uptick rule" in the summer of 2007 are ...


Saving lives more efficiently: Cardiac arrest study may help EMS and ERs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

When someone's heart suddenly stops beating – a condition called cardiac arrest -- there's a lot that bystanders and ambulance crews can do to get it started again. But if the victim doesn't respond, when should such efforts ...





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Naturally skinny people have their own challenges

Medicine & Health / Health

created 17 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nancy Brueheim wishes she could break 100 pounds. Without working at it, Brueheim, who is 71 and stands 5-foot-2, fluctuates between 95 and 98 pounds.


Climate change financing -- the role of development cooperation

Space & Earth / Environment

created 23 hours ago | popularity 1.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

"Development cooperation can play an important role in ensuring that the poorest countries will benefit from climate change funding," says Olof Drakenberg, policy analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit at the School ...


Their infinite wisdom

Their infinite wisdom

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children ...


Antidepressants may increase risk of stroke and death

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Postmenopausal women who take antidepressants face a small but statistically significant increased risk for stroke and death compared with those who do not take the drugs. The new findings are from the federally-funded, multi-institution, ...


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'.


Drug-resistant swine flu cluster on Vietnam train

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cluster of seven people infected with a Tamiflu-resistant strain of pandemic H1N1 influenza has been identified in Vietnam by a team including Oxford researchers.


Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

When a government-appointed panel of experts released new guidelines last month calling for fewer routine mammograms, they were met with public confusion, political outrage, and a media storm that left women ...


Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...


How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top (AP)

How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting ...



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