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New treatment option for patients with chronic hepatitis C

A new combination therapy of daily consensus interferon (CIFN) and ribavirin is effective for some people with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) who do not respond to standard therapy. The treatment works particularly well in interferon-sensitive ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists urge world leaders to respond cooperatively to Pacific Ocean threats

More than 400 leading scientists from nearly two-dozen countries have signed a consensus statement on the major threats facing the Pacific Ocean. The threats identified as the most serious and pervasive include overfishing, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion

When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science, a jour ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure

A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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