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Moody's lowers outlook on Nokia

Rating agency Moody's said Tuesday it had lowered its outlook on Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia to "negative" from "stable."

Technology / Business

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Under 50? Silent duo could put you at risk for a big stroke

Being young doesn't mean you are immune to a stroke. You may feel healthy; you may be 18 or a vigorous 50. And yet you could be more vulnerable than you know. That could be because of the role played by silent risk factors ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Bacteria Are Better Gene Packers Than We Thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- In microbial genomes, genes are typically depicted as linear series of separate regulatory and coding regions. This leads to the assumption that annotations done by computer to predict such ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Declines in other thinking and learning skills may precede memory loss in Alzheimer's disease

Cognitive abilities other than memory, including visuospatial skills needed to perceive relationships between objects, may decline years prior to a clinical diagnosis in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a report ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eye exercises help patients work out vision problems

You've probably been there. In a doctor's office, being advised to do what you dread - exercise. You get that feeling in your gut, acknowledging that, indeed, you should exercise but probably won't. Now imagine ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

More effective treatment identified for common childhood vision disorder

Scientists have found a more effective treatment for a common childhood eye muscle coordination problem called convergence insufficiency (CI). For words on a page to appear in focus a child's eyes must turn inward, or converge. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Best treatment determined for childhood eye problem

Mayo Clinic researchers, as part of a nine-site study, helped discover the best of three currently-used treatments for convergence insufficiency in children. Convergence refers to the natural ability of the eyes to focus ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientist highlights urgent need for new computer models to address climate change

Two papers published in the journal Science today by Microsoft Research ecologist Drew Purves together with research colleagues at Princeton University and universities in Madrid, Spain, highlight how an improved understanding ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (11) | comments 1


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