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Pain Management for Preemies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UConn nursing professor is studying a way of holding babies that can reduce pain for preemies.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Genetic safety in numbers, platypus study finds

(Phys.org) -- Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Powered by the sun, Stanford ingenuity

On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Stanford Solar Car Project officially unveils Xenith, a solar-powered vehicle two years in the making that boasts several industry-leading technological innovations. The team will ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Why do we laugh when someone falls over?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why is it funny when people fall over? What are jokes for? A session for teenagers at Cambridge University today will come up with some answers.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Big brains attributed to mother's care

The evolution of big-brained mammals may be due to maternal investment, rather than metabolism, according to a new study by scientists at UCL (University College London) and the University of Cambridge.

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Country action is needed for maternal and child health in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has only 11% of the world's population, yet more than half of the world's maternal, newborn and child deaths, and two-thirds of the world's AIDS deaths. New data reveal that the pace of mortality reduction ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Dying: Millions of women in childbirth, newborns and young children

Widespread global use of known and proven maternal and childcare techniques, practices, and therapies could save the lives of millions of women, newborns and children each year, according to a new analysis ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Training birth attendants in developing countries increases babies' survival

In developing countries, where millions of babies die in the womb or soon after birth, research has shown that providing training in newborn care and resuscitation to birth attendants significantly increases the likelihood ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Farmers harness manure's gases to generate power

Where others see simply manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe already had yoked the power of pig poop.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Pretermers bounce back from pain with a cuddle

Research published today in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics suggests that very preterm babies, born between 28 and 31 weeks, could benefit from skin-to-skin cuddling with their mother before and during painful proced ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rare Example of Darwinism Seen in Action

A research team of biologists has found experimental evidence that supports a controversial theory of genetic conflict in the reproduction of those animals that support their developing offspring through a ...

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created Jul 30, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 0


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