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Queen's study to test Canadian guidelines for daily exercise

How hard and for how long should you exercise in order to shed excess abdominal fat and reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Public option' becomes central to health debate

(AP) -- The idea of a government medical plan to compete with private insurance has become a litmus test in the health care debate. It could easily have been nothing more than a forgotten proposal gathering ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 13

Commerce secretary approves Arctic fisheries plan

(AP) -- The nation's secretary of commerce has approved a plan that would prohibit an expansion of commercial fishing in the Arctic, at least until more is known about the area.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Landmark survey highlights needs of unpaid caregivers of people with diabetes

The Hormone Foundation, the public education affiliate of The Endocrine Society, in collaboration with the National Alliance for Caregiving, today released key findings from a first-of-its-kind survey aimed at better understanding ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic medicine, without borders?

Disease knows no borders and now researchers in Europe and the Mediterranean shoreline are using electronic infrastructures (e-Infrastructures) to coordinate and cooperate internationally.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Redundancy Reduces Birth Rates of Highly-Skilled: Losing a Job Can Ruin Plans to Start a Family

Highly skilled women who have lost their job tend not to realise their plans to start a family. This is the clear finding of a major study conducted by the University of Linz with support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Study: Financial windfalls hasten early retirement

Older workers who get a jolt of cash out of the blue are more likely to cash in on early retirement, according to new research led by two University of Illinois finance professors.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

From Mass.: Health care reform 'dos and don'ts'

(AP) -- Three years into its experiment with near-universal health care, Massachusetts has some "dos and don'ts" for the nation as it grapples with the best way to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Definitely, not your mother's maternity ward

At Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, Minn., women can now give birth in rooms with whirlpool tubs and wi-fi. At Fairview Southdale in Edina, Minn., new moms can hire a massage therapist or a portrait photographer.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Abortion pill used in a quarter of US abortions

(AP) -- Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill."

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

White House, hospitals reach deal on health care

(AP) -- The nation's hospitals will give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments to help defray the cost of President Barack Obama's health care plan, a concession the White House hopes will boost an overhaul ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Owning too much company stock puts workers' retirement at risk

Congress should ban employer stock from company-sponsored retirement plans to spare workers the risk of putting too much of their nest eggs in one basket, a new study by a University of Illinois legal expert says.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1