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Low sperm count may be associated with prenatal testosterone excess

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exposure to an excess of sexual steroids, like testosterone, during fetal development may be a potential risk factor for low sperm count and motility, according to a new study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a ...


Childhood kidney disorder has lasting effects

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A kidney condition that can arise in children and was until recently believed to disappear after puberty may persist into adulthood and cause significant long-term complications, according to a study appearing in an upcoming ...





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Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk (AP)

Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk

Technology / Business

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(AP) --Howard Stern is threatening to leave Sirius XM Radio Inc. now that the shock jock and the satellite radio provider are getting set to enter contract talks in 2010.


Oracle expects EU to approve Sun deal next month (AP)

Oracle expects EU to approve Sun deal next month

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created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Oracle Corp. said Thursday that its profit jumped 12.5 percent in the latest quarter and that it expects the European Union will finally approve its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. ...


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Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for.


Swine flu vaccine now plentiful in half the states

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- After weeks of shortages, swine flu vaccine is plentiful enough that nearly half the states now say everyone can get it, not just people in high-risk groups.


Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence.


Netherlands to slaughter more animals in Q fever epidemic

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Netherlands stepped up measures Wednesday against the world's biggest Q fever epidemic that has killed 10 humans, by ordering the slaughter of over 30,000 animals, a press release said.


Sick of swine flu? Toxic algae could be the next big threat

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

With a new theory surfacing that toxic algae rather than asteroids killed the dinosaurs, scientists are still trying to unravel the mystery of what caused a massive algae bloom off the Northwest Coast that left thousands ...


New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...


Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings (AP)

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(AP) -- As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according ...


Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...



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