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| EurekAlert! | Top 10 | 'Test and Treat' model offers new strategy for eliminating malaria
Researchers found that actively identifying undiagnosed malaria and then treating those with the disease resulted in significantly lower prevalence of malaria cases compared to a control group.
6-Feb-2012
PLoS ONE
| Smallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair
When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch nut in tight quarters, or to loosen a rusted-tight one-inch bolt using a very persuasive lever.
6-Feb-2012
Orthopedic Research Society meeting
| Global extinction: Gradual doom as bad as abrupt
Thomas Algeo, a geologist at the University of Cincinnati, and 13 colleagues have produced a high-resolution look at the geology of a Permian-Triassic boundary section on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.
6-Feb-2012
Geological Society of America Bulletin
| UNH ocean scientists shed new light on Mariana Trench
An ocean mapping expedition has shed new light on deepest place on Earth, the 2,500-kilometer long Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean near Guam. Using a multibeam echo sounder, state-of-the-art equipment for mapping the ocean floor, scientists from the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center found four "bridges" spanning the trench and measured its deepest point with greater precision than ever before.
6-Feb-2012
American Geophysical Union
| NYU Langone orthopaedic experts present research, clinical advances at AAOS meeting
Experts from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center will present their latest research and clinical findings on diseases of the muscle, tendon, bone and joint at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Feb. 7-11 in San Francisco, California.
6-Feb-2012
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2012 Annual Meeting
| Combined oral contraceptive pill helps painful periods
A large Scandinavian study, that has been running for 30 years, has finally provided convincing evidence that the combined oral contraceptive pill does, indeed, alleviate the symptoms of painful menstrual periods reports scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
6-Feb-2012
Human Reproduction
| Odds of living a very long life lower than formerly predicted
The chances to reach extreme old age are much lower than previously thought, new research shows. Research just published by a team of demographers at the social science research organization NORC at the University of Chicago contradicts a long-held belief that the mortality rate of Americans flattens out above age 80. It also explains why there are only half as many people in the US age 100 and above than the Census Bureau has predicted.
6-Feb-2012
North American Actuarial Journal
| Medical debt keeps rising, new report shows
A comprehensive new report on health insurance from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows the so-called Great Recession caused hundreds of thousands of Californians to lose coverage and acquire medical debt.
6-Feb-2012
| Increased clumsiness in former welders
Welders who are exposed to manganese from welding fumes, risk developing increased clumsiness and the result may remain decades after exposure has ceased. This is the finding of a study at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, of former shipyard workers.
6-Feb-2012
| Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer
A recent discovery by Van Andel Research Institute scientists enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumor in humans.
6-Feb-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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| | Yahoo! News - Health | Top 10 | Does it really matter who wins in November?
"The president generally matters so much less than we think," says journalist and Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner. "Especially when it comes to the economy.
Yahoo! Finance - 9 mins ago
| Lawyer: Son said mom was 'in the trunk'
A week before he killed himself and his two children in a fiery explosion, Josh Powell told ABC News he was optimistic about the future and was looking forward to a day when he would regain custody of his boys.
Good Morning America - 1 hr 49 mins ago
| Victims weep, ridicule Norway killer's court speech
Survivors and relatives of those killed in a Norwegian mass-murder rampage wept and ridiculed the smiling attacker in court Monday as he defended his acts by issuing a tirade against immigration.
Reuters - 1 hr 3 mins ago
| Ex-UVA lacrosse player pleads not guilty to murder
Former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely pleaded not guilty today six charges, including first-degree murder, in the 2010 death of his ex-girlfriend and classmate Yeardley Love.
Good Morning America - 1 hr 3 mins ago
| Tom Brady's wife blames Patriots teammates for loss
Watching your husband's team lose the Super Bowl can't be easy, but nobody expected this kind of reaction from the world's most famous supermodel.
Yahoo! Sports - 3 hrs ago
| 'Ask Me Anything': Woody Harrelson’s online chat fiasco
"Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! If you could ask your favorite celebrity anything and get a direct response, what would you ask? Would you expect whoever it was to answer you honestly? Of course you would want that, but that may not be what you get. Social news site Reddit …
Trending Now - 3 hrs ago
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