Archive: 07/08/2008
Crawling the Internet to track infectious disease outbreaks
Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Whales and dolphins influence new wind turbine design
Sea creatures have evolved over millions of years to maximise efficiency of movement through water; humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century. So shouldn't we be taking more ...
Biology /
Jul 08, 2008 |
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HIV treatment in Africa as successful as in Europe, if started in time
The public health approach to HIV treatment, in which a limited number of drug combinations is used for all patients in South African programs, works just as well as the highly individualized approach to drug selection used ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Guidelines for care of elderly patients ignored
Guidelines for the treatment of older patients with respiratory conditions are routinely ignored. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Health Services Research shows that recommended treatments are given ...
Jul 08, 2008 |
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