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UV lotion lights the way to cleaner facilities - 10 May 2008
A team of Canadian scientists using a lotion which glows under ultraviolet light have shown that up to a third of patient toilets are not...
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University of Leicester to lead audit of adults with... - 9 May 2008
The University of Leicester is leading on a national study to calculate the number of adults with autism, it has been announced...
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ACP says Medicare cuts will hurt physicians in small... - 8 May 2008
ACP asks Congress to pass legislation to avert pending pay cut (Washington) – Noting that many physicians across the country who lead...
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Skin flaps deliver cancer-fighting therapy, ASPS... - 8 May 2008
Treatment provides 'blueprint' to produce therapeutic proteins at tumor site ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Using gene therapy, plastic...
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IEEE Homeland Security Conference Business Panel to... - 7 May 2008
WASHINGTON (7 May 2008) -- Dr. Thomas Cellucci, chief commercialization officer for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and...
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Weill Cornell receives funding to study creation of... - 6 May 2008
$80,000 from Samuels Foundation and matching funds to further goals of preventing abuse and helping victims achieve a life without...
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Don't ask, don't tell: Financial disclosure lacking... - 6 May 2008
DURHAM, NC – Most published research about coronary stents does not reveal information about authors’ financial relationships that...
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Screw worm outbreak in Yemen - 6 May 2008
Delegation seeks emergency assistance An outbreak of the insidious ´screw worm´ fly in Yemen, is threatening livelihoods, in a...
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Expert predicts 'Monsoon Britain' - 6 May 2008
Prepare for more floods – in ways we are not used to - that’s the message from experts at Durham University who have studied...
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Berkeley Lab researchers propose a new breed of... - 6 May 2008
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative...
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Antidepressants do work in depression while evidence... - 6 May 2008
British Association of Pharmacology evidence-based guidelines published this month by SAGE Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore (6 May,...
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National scientific meeting on child mental health... - 6 May 2008
As the nation observes National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day on Thursday, the University of Kentucky Center for the Study of Violence...
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Botulinum toxin effective in many neurological... - 5 May 2008
ST. PAUL, Minn. – New guidelines developed by the American Academy of Neurology confirm that the drug botulinum toxin is safe and...
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Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to... - 5 May 2008
This leaf beetle, which lives in the cloud forest on the east slope of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, is from the family...
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Alcohol-outlet density and violence are clearly... - 5 May 2008
Alcohol-outlet density and violence are clearly linked over time A new Australian study examines the relationship between alcohol-outlet...
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A gentle touch for better control, a quantum... - 5 May 2008
News from the American Physical Society The Particle Whisperers G. Volpe, S. Perrone, J. M. Rubi, and D. Petrov Physical Review E...
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New disaster preparedness strategy announced - 5 May 2008
New disaster proposal could legally protect physicians In an unprecedented initiative, US and Canadian experts have developed a comprehensive...
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New SCHIP enrollees have unmet health care needs - 5 May 2008
Waiting period would negatively affect health status of enrollees Even with prior private health insurance, patients enrolling in the state...
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Uninsured kids in middle class have same unmet needs... - 3 May 2008
Large percentage of children with no health insurance go without care all year Nationwide, uninsured children in families earning between...
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N.C. State leads effort to create 'next generation'... - 2 May 2008
Highlighting North Carolina State University’s leadership in hazard and disaster studies, NC State’s Dr. Thomas Birkland was...
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Rockefeller University Press allows authors to... - 2 May 2008
Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has...
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NC State leads effort to create 'next generation' of... - 2 May 2008
Highlighting North Carolina State University’s leadership in hazard and disaster studies, NC State’s Dr. Thomas Birkland was...
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New method for processing rape evidence could... - 1 May 2008
With approximately 250,000 items of sexual assault evidence mired in three- to 12-month backlogs awaiting analysis in U.S. forensic...
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Healthy lifestyles become a political affair - 1 May 2008
EuroAspire and EuroAction results to be presented Heart disease is the number one killer in Europe, taking over 2 million lives every year1, yet...
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New study shows race significant factor in death... - 1 May 2008
University of Denver sociology professor studies DA's cases in Harris County, Texas DENVER— New research by Scott Phillips, associate...
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Carnegie Mellon technique accelerates biological... - 1 May 2008
Will improve automated high-throughput screening techniques PITTSBURGH—Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Lane Center for...
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US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean... - 30 Apr 2008
Controversial court patent case for simple yellow legume has become rallying point for 'biopiracy' concerns WASHINGTON, DC (30 APRIL...
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UCLA stem cell researchers create heart and blood... - 30 Apr 2008
Discovery may lead to new treatments Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had...
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Climate change - 30 Apr 2008
Global risks, challenges and decisions The Organisers of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009...
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Medical journal calls upon Barack Obama to do much more - 29 Apr 2008
April 29, 2008, New Rochelle, NY --Jeffrey Laurence, M.D., Editor of the peer-reviewed medical journal, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, and the...
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