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Weight loss reduces sleep problems in obese men

Medicine & Health / Health

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Weight loss reduces obstructive sleep apnoea in obese men, with the greatest effect seen in patients with severe disease, according to new research published in the British Medical Journal today.


New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...


Acculturation influences smoking cessation by Latino men

Medicine & Health / Health

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Latino men who are more adapted to U.S. culture are more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published ...


AP sources: Comcast to pay $13.75B for NBC stake (AP)

Comcast aims to reshape entertainment with NBC

Technology / Business

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable ...


Widowed facing higher mortality risk, MSU researcher finds

Widowed facing higher mortality risk, researcher finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist.


Study shows antibiotic unsuccessful in preventing preterm labor

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The antibiotic, called azithromycin, is effective in treating infections such as syphilis, Chlamydia and Ureaplasma urealyticum - a bacterial infection thought to play a significant role in causing preterm labour. Recent studi ...


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.


Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town (AP)

Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Puerto Rico has such a bad history with research monkeys running amok that some residents are stunned that its government has tentatively approved a plan to import and breed thousands of primates ...


Western diets turn on fat genes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Those extra helpings of gravy and dessert at the holiday table are even less of a help to your waistline than previously thought. According to a new research report recently appearing online in The FASEB Journal, a diet t ...


Government delays new ban on Internet gambling

Technology / Internet

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.



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