All news dated 03/26/2008

Medicine & Health RSS

Coronary calcium testing predicts future heart ailments

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Key factor in brain development revealed, offers insight into disorder

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Study shows the upside of anger

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

Brain's 'sixth sense' for calories discovered

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

Keeping in good shape in old age is harder for women, study finds

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Dental chair a possible source of neurotoxic mercury waste

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Large multicenter study suggests new genetic markers for Crohn's disease

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Apple pectin, apple juice extracts shown to have anticarcinogenic effects on colon

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Compulsive gamblers always down on their luck

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

New brain cells implicated in machinery of cannabinoid signaling

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

FDA warns about dietary supplements

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Umbilical cord blood cell therapy may reduce signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

Study shows lifetime effects of pediatric liver transplants

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists launch first comprehensive database of human oral microbiome

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

PET confirmed as valuable cancer diagnostic and disease-staging tool

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

MRI's high false positive rate has little impact on women's choice of preventive mastectomy

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Somalia free of polio once again

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Long-term use of mechanical ventilation contributes to the deterioration of human diaphragm muscle

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

Umbilical cord blood cell therapy in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease

March 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | pda version

More Honduran cantaloupes recalled

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Tropical disease experts call for a 'Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases'

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

General Science RSS

Military action to influence oil-producing nations ineffective, expert says

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

New ionic liquid in thermometers beats mercury on range, performance and safety

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | pda version

Living upside-down shapes spiders for energy saving

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

Who's bad? Chimps figure it out by observation

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Statistics are insufficient for study of proteins' signal system

March 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | pda version

Rich terrorist, poor terrorist

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | pda version

Peace paradox and air terror

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Retirees on the move are boon to some rural communities

March 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | pda version

Isotope analysis reveals foraging area dichotomy for Atlantic leatherback turtles

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers urge ethics guidelines for human-genome research

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Basis created for directing and filming blood vessels

March 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | pda version

Conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity: a challenge for the countries of the South

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Fighting back against business fraud

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Technology RSS

Smart aircraft wings and new lightweight construction materials

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Would you like a large shake with that little Mac?

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

NTT DoCoMo Achieves 250Mbps Downlink in Super 3G Field Experiment

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Space & Earth science RSS

Britain’s biggest meteorite impact found

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | pda version

Climate change threatens Amazonian small farmers

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

UD astronomers coordinating international observatories in white-dwarf watch

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Kilauea volcano shoots plume of ash

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

First firing of STERN rocket

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

NASA science mission director resigns

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Despite awareness of global warming Americans concerned more about local environment

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

New approach to measuring carbon in forests

March 26, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version