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Outpatient disc treatment gives long-term back pain relief

A randomized, controlled study comparing standard conservative therapy to a minimally invasive treatment called percutaneous disc decompression for painful herniated disc revealed that while both treatments help patients ...

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Hubble sees a spiral within a spiral

(Phys.org) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A spiral galaxy in Hydra

(Phys.org) -- This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4980, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra. The shape of NGC 4980 appears slightly deformed, something which is ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A galactic rose highlights Hubble's 21st anniversary

(PhysOrg.com) -- In celebration of the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers pointed Hubble at an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called ...

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created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Astronomers identify thick disc of older stars in nearby Andromeda galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified for the first time a thick stellar disc in the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way.

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created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A picture-perfect pure-disc galaxy (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The bright galaxy NGC 3621, captured here using the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, appears to be a fine example of a classical spiral. ...

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created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Is Your Back Pain Caused by Herniated Disc? Single Test Can't Tell

While lower back pain ranks as a common cause of disability in the United States, determining what causes a person’s back pain is often challenging. A new Cochrane review on diagnosing back pain finds that no single diagnostic ...

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created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Forming the present-day spiral galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a demographic census of galaxy types and shapes from a time before the Earth and the sun existed, to the present ...

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Overweight children may develop back pain and spinal abnormalities

Being overweight as a child could lead to early degeneration in the spine, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NGC 4710 galaxy: Baffling boxy bulge (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A ...

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project — a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile — has just been released ...

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2


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