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Tax rebates boost bankruptcies and why this isn't a bad thing

Many cash-strapped American families are waiting on their tax rebate to file for bankruptcy, and this trend has gained steam as costs related to filing for bankruptcy have gone up.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Japanese disaster one year later

As the world remembers the horrors of the disaster on its one-year anniversary, experts at the Mailman School take stock of disaster response, nuclear fears and lessons learned

Technology / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study establishes importance of tracking diseases associated with illegal wildlife trade

An article released today in PLoS ONE entitled, Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Products, from a collaborative study led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), identified ev ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New EPA air quality rules outweigh costs and provide major health and environmental benefits

A report by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health provides an expanded review of six new air quality regulations proposed or recently adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA). ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New York state may soon suffer outsize effects from climate, says report

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first statewide climate change outlook for New York, scientists say that the state may suffer disproportionate effects in coming decades compared with other regions, due to its geography ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 12

Natural processes can limit spread of arsenic in water, study says

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people in Bangladesh and other parts of Asia have been poisoned by drinking groundwater laced with arsenic—not introduced by humans, but leached naturally from sediments, and now ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researcher finds 9/11 attacks led to new understanding of mass trauma

(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the wreckage of the World Trade Center attacks and the events of 9/11 came some of the first large-scale research of mass trauma. The resulting findings have led to a broader understanding of how post-traumatic ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study shows scientists' location influences how widely their work is read, used for innovations

Do scientists' job locations have any impact on the way their work spreads? Or, in today’s highly networked world, does research flow around the globe without regard to its point of origin? According ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Partner controlling behaviors appear to be associated with relationship violence

Having a significant other who exhibits controlling behaviors appears to be associated with increased physical and sexual relationship violence, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Me ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Model for managing asthma in preschoolers leads to dramatic drop in ER visits and hospitalizations

Nearly one in eleven (8.6%) preschool children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with asthma and in some inner city neighborhoods, the figure is closer to one in seven. But, few asthma management programs are designed for parents ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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