Archive: 07/01/2009
Key to evolutionary fitness: Cut the calories
Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals would eat as much as they could while food was plentiful and produce as many offspring ...
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Clue to normal-tension glaucoma; herpes infection and corneal transplants
The July issue of Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, includes two studies that may influence clinical treatment of serious eye conditions. One study reports on silent cerebral infarcts (SCI) ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Triggering muscle development -- a therapeutic cure for muscle wastage?
Scientists in the UK and Denmark have shown that if elderly men were given growth hormone and exercised their legs showed an appreciable muscle mass increase.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Scientists lower Alaska volcano threat level
(AP) -- Alaskans can put away their dust masks and spare air filters, for now, because Mount Redoubt seems to have cooled off since its last major eruption nearly three months ago.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Bad medicine: Health care can cause harm when focus is on providing services instead of improving health
Are individuals, families, communities and employers getting their money's worth from US healthcare? That's the big question in the news today, pushed further into the spotlight by the Obama administration.
Jul 01, 2009 |
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