Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
21 Feb 2008
There are several human characteristics considered to be genetically predetermined and evolutionarily innate, such as immune system strength, physical adaptations and even sex differences. These qualities drive the nature versus nurture debate and ask of our species, who is more successful and why?
Psychologists Agneta Herlitz and Jenny Rehnman in Stockholm, Sweden asked an [...]
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Filed under: Psychology
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
19 Feb 2008
At least 82 youth have died as a result of playing what has been called “the choking game,” according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The choking game involves intentionally trying to choke oneself or another in an effort to [...]
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Filed under: Adolescent Health
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
21 Feb 2008
An insidious new generation of tobacco products is threatening efforts to reduce tobacco use in the United States. A new report issued by a coalition of public health organizations describes how tobacco manufacturers take advantage of the lack of government regulation to design and market products that recruit new youth users, create and [...]
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Filed under: Drug Use
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
21 Feb 2008
A highly innovative scheme to use mobile technology to obtain a patients weight has proved a great success in Hammersmith & Fulham PCT. The recent scheme found that by using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging to request a patient’s weight via text message, the patient’s medical record could be updated quickly and efficiently with [...]
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Filed under: Just Reading
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
21 Feb 2008
Zargis Medical Corp., a spin-off from Siemens Corporate Research (NYSE: SI) and a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp. (Nasdaq: SPDE) announced that Cardioscan(R) is being used at the middle and high schools in Long Branch, New Jersey to evaluate student athletes during preparticipation sports physicals.
The Cardioscan evaluation is being undertaken in conjunction with [...]
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Filed under: Sports Injury
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
20 Feb 2008
Controversies in Science and Technology, Volume 2: From Climate to Chromosomes presents an in-depth exploration of hot topics in modern science and technology that is accessible to a broad audience. The book takes a unique approach, using multiple experts of diverse and often clashing viewpoints to explore each of the volume’s five [...]
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Filed under: Just Reading
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2008) — The same rules of physics that govern molecules as they condense from gas to liquid, or freeze from liquid to solid, also apply to the activity patterns of neurons in the human brain. University of Chicago mathematician Jack Cowan will offer this and related insights on the physics of brain [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2008) — The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists at Stanford University have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than other cultural attributes. Speeded or slowed rates of [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Kele Ding
20 Feb 2008
One glass of red wine can be good for you, but a second may not, reports the Daily Mail. The first drink relaxes the blood vessels and “reduces the amount of work the heart has to do”, the newspaper says, but the second “countered any health benefits – increasing the risk of high [...]
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Filed under: Experimental Study
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Kele Ding
By NICKOLAS BAKALAR
The randomized clinical trial, widely considered the most reliable biomedical research method, can have significant drawbacks, a new study suggests, because patients included may not be representative of the broader population.
The scientists, writing in the December issue of The Annals of Surgical Oncology, reviewed 29 clinical trials of surgical procedures in prostate, colon, [...]
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Filed under: Research Methods
