Free drug samples may end up costing uninsured more 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical companies could actually be costing uninsured patients more in the long run, according to a study done by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ... | |
LHC switch-on fears are completely unfounded: new research paper 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published on Friday, 5 September, provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to ... | |
Fingerprint find in decade-old double murder probe 23 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A decade old US double murder probe has received a new breakthrough following investigations by a University of Leicester forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police. | |
SanDisk in talks with Korean Samsung 3 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Computer memory group SanDisk said Friday it has had "discussions" with South Korean giant Samsung Electronics but declined to confirm that they were merger or takeover talks. | |
Study: Individual Personal Ties Strengthen Teams’ Overall Creativity 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- With more employees working in teams, it’s critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work. | |
 Dental fillings without gaps 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Tooth cavities are usually closed with plastic fillings. However, the initially soft plastic shrinks as it hardens. The tension can cause gaps to appear between the tooth and the filling, encouraging more ... | |
 Tracking the reasons many girls avoid science and math 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Most parents and many teachers believe that if middle-school and high-school girls show no interest in science or math, there's little anyone can do about it. New research by a team that includes vocational ... | |
Creating lung cancer risk models for specific populations refines prediction 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Lung cancer risk prediction models are enhanced by taking into account risk factors by race and by measuring DNA repair capacity, according to research teams led by epidemiologists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ... | |
Parents beware: Kids exposed to many hours of alcohol use in PG-13 movies 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are exposed to many hours of alcohol use in movies, especially films rated PG-13, a new study shows. | |
Judge tentatively upholds charges in ‘cyber-bullying' case 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A federal judge handed a partial victory Thursday to prosecutors seeking to put a St. Louis-area woman on trial regarding online harassment of a teenage neighbor who later killed herself. | |
Driving the future of in-vehicle ICT 6 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Information and communications systems in road vehicles are progressing steadily, but the research community behind these developments remains fragmented. Now a European initiative has linked key knowledge ... | |
 Recovery efforts not enough for critically endangered Asian vulture 6 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered vulture, whose numbers in the wild have dwindled from tens of millions to a few thousand, are too small to protect the species from extinction, a University ... | |
Updated guidelines for stem cell research released 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The National Academies today released amended guidelines for research involving human embryonic stem cells, revising those that were issued in 2005 and updated in 2007. The Academies originally produced the guidelines to ... | |
 Wireless technologies used today based on decades of work at Virginia Tech 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Technologies used today by companies, such as Direct TV, Iridium Satellite, Bluetooth, and Globalstar, are based on satellite communications efforts started at Virginia Tech four decades ago in its Bradley ... | |
 Computerized reminder system drove up colon cancer screening rates, study found 7 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A computerized reminder system used in community-based primary care doctors' offices increased colorectal cancer screening rates by an average of 9 percent, according to a new study from the University of ... | |
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