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Withdrawal of life support often an imperfect compromise
Intensive Care Unit doctors seeking to balance the complex needs of their patients and the patients' families may make an imperfect compromise, withdrawing life support systems over a prolonged period of time. This practice is much more common than previously believed, and is also surprisingly ... more »
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New light on link between snoring and cognitive deficits in children
About two-thirds of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) -- snoring or obstructive sleep apnea -- have some degree of cognitive deficit, but the severity of the cognitive deficit has been notoriously difficult to correlate to the severity of the SDB, suggesting that other important issues ... more »
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Red wine may lower lung cancer risk
Moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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'Deadly dozen' reports diseases worsened by climate change
Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society today released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, with potential impacts to both human and wildlife health and global economies.
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How are children choosing their food portions?
Temple University researchers are trying to pinpoint the factors that affect how much food a child eats, to stave off unhealthy relationships with food later in life.
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An epidemiologic study of microscopic colitis in Turkey
Microscopic colitis is a chronic diarrheal disease with normal colonoscopic but abnormal histopathologic features. It is a disease with two subtypes of similar clinical but different histological features: Lymphocytic colitis, which is characterized by pronounced colonic mucosal lymphocyte infiltrat ... more »
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Robot designed by Fatronik-Tecnalia, finalist in international Strategic Manufacturing Awards 2008
A robot designed by the Industrial Systems Unit at Fatronik-Tecnalia for the Airbus aeronautics company has been chosen, amongst more than 100 enterprises worldwide, for competition in the prestigious international Strategic Manufacturing Awards 2008, in the category of Innovation.
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New knowledge about thermoelectric materials could give better energy efficiency
Researchers at the University of Århus, Risø-DTU and the University of Copenhagen stand jointly behind new data, just published in Nature Materials, that describes properties of thermoelectric materials, which is of great importance for their practical application. In the long term the new ... more »
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Mentally ill smoke at 4 times the rate of general population, says University of Melbourne study
Australians with mental illness smoke at four times the rate of the general population, says a new study from the University of Melbourne.
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Herbal menopause therapy a good fit for breast cancer patients?
When it comes to understanding the effectiveness and safety of using herbal therapies with other drugs, much is unknown. Now, a University of Missouri researcher will study how black cohosh -- an herbal supplement often used to relieve hot flashes in menopausal women -- interacts with tamoxifen, a c ... more »
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