[B]Hip/knee replacement candidates[/B] Health-care system constraints combined with a lack of a uniform referral process are leaving Ontario physicians brokering which patients are in greatest need of hip and knee replacement, a s ...
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[B]Even lean individuals who gain weight are at risk[/B] Healthy individuals who gain weight, even to a weight still considered normal, are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in ...
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RFID technology may provide the key to better traffic management and improved pollution control in Canada, India and worldwide.
Jun 19, 2008
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Anyone who frequently travels by airplane has likely experienced clear-air turbulence. It's the kind of jarring turbulence that can quickly turn a smooth flight into a bumpy ride, often causing aircraft to drop anywhere from ...
Jun 19, 2008
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[B]Why the 'cheap food revolution' hasn't reached poor countries[/B] Most people don't think twice as they pass spring apples from the southern hemisphere as they enter the supermarket, but they are participating in a c ...
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In many ways, astronomers are in the dark about asteroids. In the dark depths of the Kuiper Asteroid Belt beyond Neptune's orbit, and even in the nearby Main Belt between Jupiter and Mars, most asteroids are too small to ...
Jun 19, 2008
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The question of how much nitrogen is lost from fertilizer urea when it is applied to the soil surface comes up with growers and fertilizer dealers every season and is the focus of a Montana Agricultural Experiment Station ...
Jun 19, 2008
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A commonly recognized gene that places one at risk for Alzheimer’s disease does not discriminate between blacks and whites, according to new research led by Florida State University.
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The leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to an MIT expert on airport design and operations, who said that airport ...
Jun 19, 2008
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[B]Understanding the science of attention and technology's role in eroding -- and perhaps someday improving -- our ability to focus[/B] Cell phones, Blackberries, e-mail, laptops allowing people to bring their work anywhere, new ...
Jun 19, 2008
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As if the emotional and financial impact of flood damage isn't bad enough, floodwaters can also bring health problems. H. James Wedner, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Washington ...
Jun 19, 2008
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Posting a vehicle's fuel efficiency in "gallons per mile" rather than "miles per gallon" would help consumers make better decisions about car purchases and environmental impact, researchers from Duke University's Fuqua School ...
Jun 19, 2008
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Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated.
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New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers ...
Jun 19, 2008
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[B]A new computational tool allows the most accurate insights into evolution ever[/B] What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Ins ...
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