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Death rates same for diabetes and heart disease patients receiving drug therapy or surgery

There is no difference in mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to drug therapy alone, according to a landmark study focused exclusively ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than just the tailpipe -- true environmental cost of travel

Trains, planes, buses and automobiles do not only effect the environment via their exhaust pipes. There is a full life-cycle of processes associated with getting from a to b that we rarely acknowledge.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Excessive gaming associated with poor sleep hygiene and increased sleepiness

Computer/console gamers who play for more than seven hours a week and who identify their gaming as an addiction sleep less during the weekdays and experience greater sleepiness than casual or non-gamers, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Researchers Shed Light on Esophageal Disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Canadian Light Source (CLS) staff scientist Luca Quaroni and Dr. Alan Casson from the University of Saskatchewan used the synchrotron's infrared microscope to identify tissue afflicted with ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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