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US tops world in health care spending, results lag

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- The United States ranks near the bottom in life expectancy among wealthy nations despite spending more than double per person on health care than the industrialized world's average, an economic group said Tuesday.


Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by ...


Texas Tech Using Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Peanut Crops

Biology / Ecology

created 22 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield.


Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...


The skyline of Tokyo in Japan, where scientists have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets

Japan scientists attack govt research cut plans

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Top Japanese scientists, including four Nobel laureates, have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets, warning the country will loose its high-tech edge.


Study shows link between working memory and reactive parenting

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

Any parent knows that sometimes maintaining your cool with misbehaving children is a challenge. We all have times when we get frustrated or angry and lash out at someone without thinking. A new study by psychologists at ...


Immediate, aggressive spending on HIV/AIDS could end epidemic

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the spread of the disease. That was the conclusion of a study just published in the open-access journal, ...


Broadband stimulus moves at dial-up speeds

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mark Morgenthaler wants nothing more than to hire 15 people to help expand his wireless Internet service, Surfnet Communications in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He can't wait to start accepting applications, interviewing candidates, ...


Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana

Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has found that a naturally occurring microorganism acts as a natural herbicide against giant salvinia.


Control of blood clotting by platelets described; provides medical promise

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Cell fragments called platelets are essential to promote blood clotting. Virginia Tech faculty members and students have discovered novel molecular interactions at the surface of platelets that control blood clotting.



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