Archive: 06/20/2008
Intimate examinations should not be performed without consent
[B]Editorial: Informed consent and intimate examinations[/B] Intimate examinations, performed by medical students on anaesthetised patients, are often carried out without adequate consent from patients, but this violates the ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Positive school environments can help reduce student smoking
A survey of high-school children in Scotland has shown that pupils who experience positive and inclusive social environments in schools are less likely to take up smoking. New research published in the open access journal ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Global war deaths have been substantially underestimated
[B]Research paper: 50 years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia[/B] Globally, war has killed three times more people than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support claims of a recent decline in ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Government resources urgently needed to reduce childhood injury, say experts
[B]Editorial: Preventing injury in childhood[/B] Childhood injury surveillance in the UK is under-resourced and lags behind other European countries, say experts in this week's BMJ, ahead of UK Child Safety Week on 23 June ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Researchers find an evolutionarily preserved signature in the primate brain
Researchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings, published June 20th in ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Should doctors be 'selling' drugs for the pharmaceutical industry?
[B]Feature: Key opinion leaders -- independent experts or drug representatives in disguise?[/B] Are senior doctors who help drug companies sell their drugs independent experts or just drug representatives in disguise, ask ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Attitude determines student success in rural schools
[B]Study investigates qualities of high-achieving schools[/B] While most of the country focuses on ACT scores, student-teacher ratio and rigorous curriculum to increase student success, it may be the commitment to excellence tha ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Conventional wisdom wrong about Arab journalists' anti-Americanism
[B]Research published in International Journal of Press/Politics[/B] Since September 11, U.S. politicians have repeatedly reminded us that the journalists in the Arab world are biased against America and the West. Ground-breaking res ...
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Math could help cure leukemia
When kids complain that math homework won't help them in real life, a new answer might be that math could help cure cancer.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Systems properties of insulin signaling revealed
A team of Swedish researchers has characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling, described in an article published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Co ...
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Jun 20, 2008 |
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Supercomputer explores biochemical landscape to find memory switches
Switches are a part of daily life, from snoozing your alarm, turning on the coffee maker, firing up your car engine, and so on until we turn off the lights at night. Researchers have now cataloged even more ...
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