News tagged with indirect harm
Bad medicine: Health care can cause harm when focus is on providing services instead of improving health
Are individuals, families, communities and employers getting their money's worth from US healthcare? That's the big question in the news today, pushed further into the spotlight by the Obama administration.
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Psychologists' study finds TV ratings for kids' shows don't reflect aggressive content
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by psychologists from Iowa State University and Linfield College has found that TV ratings don't accurately reflect the aggressive content found in shows popular among children ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Social welfare cuts ultimately come with heavy price, researchers say
(Phys.org) -- Slashing government funding for Medicaid, food stamps and other programs that serve the poor – while politically popular with some lawmakers and many conservatives – may do more harm ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 24, 2012 |
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China sets up rare earths industry group
(AP) -- China has set up a rare earths industry association to fend off trade complaints and help regulate the sector that is critical to global high-tech manufacturing.
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Researchers report potential for a 'moderate' New England 'red tide' in 2012
New England is expected to experience a "moderate" regional "red tide" this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that causes the bloom. The algae in the water ...
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Is rainfall a greater threat to China's agriculture than warming?
New research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Watching the planet breathe
Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth’s plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labora ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Tiny amounts of alcohol dramatically extend a worm's life, but why?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Minuscule amounts of ethanol, the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, can more than double the life span of a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans, which is used frequently ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Acid rain poses a previously unrecognized threat to Great Lakes sugar maples
(PhysOrg.com) -- The number of sugar maples in Upper Great Lakes forests is likely to decline in coming decades, according to University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues, due to a previously unrecognized ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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New tech removes air pollutants, may reduce energy use in animal ag facilities
Researchers from North Carolina State University and West Virginia University have developed a new technology that can reduce air pollutant emissions from some chicken and swine barns, and also reduce their energy use by ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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AT&T finds big-money lobbying, ads don't always pay off
AT&T Inc. is one of the biggest corporate spenders in the nation's capital. But the rejection of its proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA showed that money can't necessarily buy you love from antitrust officials.
Dec 22, 2011 |
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New racism in 'reasonable accommodation'
It seems history has once again repeated itself. The recent introduction of a 'statement of values' by one of Quebec's biggest cities, Gatineau, harkens back to the 2007 outbreak of race anxiety when the village of Hérouxville ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2011 |
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