News tagged with season
The Medical Minute: Toy safety tips when shopping for holiday gifts
The holiday season is here, and for many kids that means one thing -- toys. Approximately 50 percent of all toy purchases in the United States occur between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since December is such ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's colds and flu season, and as any parent knows, colds and flu spread like wildfire, especially through schools. New research using human-networking theory may give a clearer picture of ...
Dec 13, 2010 |
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2009 H1N1 vaccine safe and induces robust immune response in people with asthma
Results from a government-sponsored clinical trial of inactivated 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine in people with asthma indicate that a single dose of vaccine was safe and induced a strong immune response predictive of protection. ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Surviving the Christmas blues
Christmas is a time of strong emotions, reflections on lost loved ones and stress from shopping and preparing for seasonal parties and gatherings.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Scientists begin 5-month study of cloud life cycles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ski season is snow season, and snow season means clouds – exactly what a team of atmospheric scientists in "Ski Town USA" are anticipating. For the next five months, a dense collection ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Researchers devise computer model for projecting severity of flu season
Researchers have developed a statistical model for projecting how many people will get sick from seasonal influenza based on analyses of flu viruses circulating that season. The research, conducted by scientists at the National ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 08, 2010 |
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New Year's: The deadliest day of the year
It's the holiday season and New Year’s partiers will soon be inundated with warnings about the risks of drinking and driving.
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle
The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2010 |
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Televisions: New technology adds new dimensions to purchases
Over the past few years, buying a new TV got to be a pretty simple process.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 03, 2010 |
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Gift Guide: Tablet and e-reader buying advice
(AP) -- This holiday season, it will be hard to enter a store without setting eyes on a tablet computer or an e-reader. In both categories, big-name manufacturers - along with some you might not have heard ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 02, 2010 |
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The fad that changed the Internet forever
Remember back in the early days of the Internet (which, our favorite reader, seems a strange thing to say) when so many people said all this online stuff was just a fad? Remember when IBM said that it could not see a ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Severe form of influenza can be treated more effectively
Flu season is upon us and while getting the nasty bug is bad news, the good news is it's now possible to treat the severe form of the virus more effectively, according to a Ryerson University researcher. Though ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Active Atlantic hurricane season was a 'gentle giant' for U.S.
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to NOAA the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends tomorrow, was one of the busiest on record. In contrast, the eastern North Pacific season had the fewest storms on record since ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2010 |
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NASA compares rainfall of 2010 and 2005's Atlantic hurricane season
The year 2010 was accurately predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be an active one with 14-23 tropical cyclones and 8-14 hurricanes predicted. NOAA's National Hurricane ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Black Friday's best deals may be in your mobile phone
At Toys "R" Us, you can forget the ol'-fashioned, paper and pencil holiday wish list - go high-tech with the toy retailer's app designed for the iPad.
Nov 25, 2010 |
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