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Cancer death rate gap widens based on education

(AP) -- The gap in cancer death rates between college graduates and those who only went to high school is widening, the American Cancer Society reported Friday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Racial stereotyping found in US death certificates

Death by homicide, the victim is probably black. By cirrhosis, the decedent is likely Native American. These stereotypes have small but clear effects on the racial classifications used to calculate official vital statistics, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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LIVE: Facebook goes public

(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whitney Houston fans to follow funeral on Internet

(AP) -- They won't be there in person, but singer Whitney Houston's millions of fans worldwide will be able to share in her homecoming service Saturday as they watch her private funeral on the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What happens to your Facebook when you die? Digital assets oft forgotten

When most people think about bequeathing their belongings, it's the obvious: the house, the car, bank accounts, the sentimental family mementos.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study finds failure points in firefighter protective equipment

(PhysOrg.com) -- In fire experiments conducted in uniformly furnished, but vacant Chicago-area townhouses, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers uncovered temperature and heat-flow ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jobs death caused by respiratory arrest, cancer

A copy of Steve Jobs' death certificate made public Monday indicates that the Apple Inc. co-founder died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs.

Technology / Business

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists still struggle to identify 9/11 remains

In a laboratory in the center of Manhattan scientists continue to struggle to put names to the remains of victims from the September 11, 2001 attacks, some 40 percent of which are still unidentified.

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Russia to resume buying Dutch, Belgian vegetables

(AP) -- Russia is ending a blanket ban on vegetable imports from the European Union put in place over fears of E. coli infection, starting with the Netherlands and Belgium, the nation's top consumer rights watchdog said ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US Supreme Court allows cholesterol drug suit

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a class-action suit by alleged victims of the anti-cholesterol drug Baycol, which was taken off the market in 2001 by German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bin Laden story shows changing media nature

(AP) -- A soldier in Afghanistan learned about the death of Osama bin Laden on Facebook. A TV producer in South Carolina got a tip from comedian Kathy Griffin on Twitter. A blues musician in Denver received ...

Technology / Internet

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7

Novel association between Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer

University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have found compelling evidence that Parkinson's disease is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer and melanoma, and that this increased cancer risk also extends ...

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created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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