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Study lays foundation for more patient access to medical records

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that many patients are dissatisfied with the way they receive results of radiology tests and want more access to information in their medical ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Consumerism and its antisocial effects can be turned on -- or off

Money doesn't buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not. Now new research ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Physicists search for new physics in primordial quantum fluctuations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Inflation, the brief period that occurred less than a second after the Big Bang, is nearly as difficult to fathom as the Big Bang itself. Physicists calculate that inflation lasted for just ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 99 | with audio podcast feature

Global influence of U.S. Constitution on the decline, study reveals

The U.S. Constitution's global influence is on the decline, finds a new study by David S. Law, JD, PhD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 11

5 Questions: Rando on resetting the 'aging clock,' cell by cell

Advances in the study of stem cells have fueled hopes that someday, via regenerative medicine, doctors could restore aging people’s hearts, livers, brains and other organs and tissues to a more youthful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A salt-free primordial soup?

Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How drugs get those tongue-twisting generic names

Oseltamivir. Esomeprazole. Trastuzumab. Where do drugs get those odd-sounding generic names? The answers are in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Soci ...

Chemistry / Other

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

New diabetes treatments aim for never-ending honeymoon

Type 1 diabetes worsens over time – but like most marriages, it starts with a honeymoon. In type 1 diabetes the honeymoon follows diagnosis. The disease is caused by the loss of insulin-secreting beta ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New drug produces steep drop in bad cholesterol

(AP) -- An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Contraception could be free under health care law

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 31, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

A new type of pill for emergency contraception

By year's end, U.S. women will have two types of emergency contraceptive pills to choose from.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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