Archive: 09/14/2007
Study: 'Confuse-reframe' sales pitch works
A U.S.-led international study has found consumers can be easily confused into buying a product by a new sales technique called "disrupt-then-reframe."
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Doctors deny surgery to longtime smoker
Doctors in Britain say they won't operate on a 57-year-old builder's broken ankle because he is a smoker.
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Pharmacist fined for natural therapies
A Tennessee pharmacist has received a $1 million fine for treating customers at his health-food store with juices and dietary supplements.
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Dermatologists identify North Texas leishmaniasis outbreak
A team of dermatologists and dermatopathologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center has identified nine North Texas cases of an infectious skin disease common in South America, Mexico and in the Middle East, where it is sometimes ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Researchers discover correlation between GERD and obesity in females
A group of scientists recently discovered an association between being overweight and a disease called gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in women.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 14, 2007 |
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NASA keeps eye on ozone layer amid Montreal Protocol's success
NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer. The United Nations ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Team IDs binocular vision gene
In work that could lead to new treatments for sensory disorders in which people experience the strange phenomena of seeing better with one eye covered, MIT researchers report that they have identified the gene responsible ...
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Returning personal effects in a bin liner must stop, says researcher
The personal effects of the victims of disasters and terrorist attacks are sometimes returned to relatives in bin liners or withheld for spurious health and safety reasons, says a researcher speaking at the Death, dying & ...
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Progress in understanding the malarial parasite
About 2 million people die of malaria every year, of which more than a million are children in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite belonging to the genus Plasmodium, and Plasmodium falciparum is ...
Biology /
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Nonstick chewing gum to become a reality
Easy-to-remove chewing gum is to become a reality, thanks to a major technological breakthrough. The announcement will be made this week at the BA Festival of Science in York, UK.
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Nuclear physicists examine oxygen's limits
Physicists at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University have made a unique measurement of an exotic oxygen nucleus, leading scientists one step closer to deciphering ...
Sep 14, 2007 |
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