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Drinking alcohol before 15 years of age is risky for later alcohol problems

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

It may seem like a minor point, but it matters when someone takes their first drink of alcohol relative to later development of alcohol problems. A new study of the relationship between age at first drink (AFD) and the risk ...





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Malaria cases likely half in third of countries

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(AP) -- Malaria cases appear to have been slashed by half in more than a third of countries battling the disease following a renewed push by the United Nations to eradicate it, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.


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Google tests new phone to profit from mobile Web

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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

(AP) -- Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion ...


Fossils on the Edge of Forever

Fossils on the Edge of Forever

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Astrobiologists have not yet found alien life on other planets. But the fossil record has evidence of aliens of another sort: the Ediacarans that lived on Earth millions of years ago.


Developing countries end boycott at climate talks (AP)

Developing countries end boycott at climate talks

Space & Earth / Environment

created 17 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Poor countries ended a boycott of U.N. climate talks Monday after getting assurances that rich nations were not conspiring to soften their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases, European officials ...


Researchers say breast cancer survival improves Herceptin used with chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Using Herceptin with chemotherapy, instead of after, clearly improves treatment of women with HER2+ breast cancer, and should be the new standard of care, says a Mayo Clinic researcher who led what is regarded to be a key ...


Science not faked, but not pretty (AP)

Science not faked, but not pretty

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (50) | comments 50

(AP) -- E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data - but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an ...


Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.


eBay Mind Games

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Psychologists have long known that when two people haggle over a price, it pays for the seller to start high.


Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...


Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.



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