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Less Arctic ice means higher risks, experts warn
10-26-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)The International Ice Charting Working Group predicts more marine transportation in the Arctic as sea ice continues to diminish and warns of "significant hazards to navigation," according to a statement released yesterday.
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- Higher risk of death for babies born just a few weeks early, study finds
11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Just a few more weeks of pregnancy may mean the difference between life and death for premature babies. While babies born late preterm often are considered healthy, they have higher risks of complications at birth than babies born full term. Studies have shown that late preterm infants have a greater risk of respiratory problems, feeding difficulties, temperature instability, jaundice and that their brains are less developed than full term infants.
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- A higher risk of obesity for children neglected by parents
11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Spending more time and giving more attention to your child may mean the difference between a lean or obese child, finds a new study from Temple University, published this month in Child Abuse & Neglect.
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- Rapid analysis could cut health risks of volcanic ash
10-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new, rapid and cheap way of estimating the potential risk posed to human health by volcanic ash has been devised by a Durham University expert.
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- Drug interactions with warfarin
08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
This real-world study of prescription data from general practices observed much higher rates of bleeding than those derived from a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. The authors write that physicians should be aware of these risks to better assess their patients' therapeutic risk-benefit profiles.
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- Divorce increases risk of Ritalin use
06-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Divorce puts children at higher risk of Ritalin use compared to kids whose parents stay together, says new research by a University of Alberta sociologist, who cautions that this doesn't necessarily mean that divorce is harmful to a child. The study appears in this week's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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- Value of drugs for pre-osteoporosis exaggerated
01-17-2008 · EurekAlert!
A series of recent scientific publications have exaggerated the benefits and underplayed the harms of drugs to treat pre-osteoporosis or "osteopenia" potentially encouraging treatment in millions of low risk women, warn experts in this week's BMJ.
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- Associative memory -- Learning at all levels
03-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
"Green" means "go," but what does "red" mean? Just about everybody says "stop" since we all have learned to imbue certain colors with meaning (or we would be road kill by now). Long thought to be limited to higher levels of information processing, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies successfully traced this type of associative learning to early stages of the visual processing pathway.
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- Specter of possible harm threatens nanotech development, experts say
11-15-2006 · EurekAlert!
Society is in danger of squandering the powerful potential of nanotechnology due to a lack of clear information about its risks, conclude 14 top international scientists in a major paper published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Nature. The paper, "Safe Handling of Nanotechnology," identifies Five Grand Challenges for research on nanotechnology risk that must be met if the technology is to reach its full promise.
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- Stanford study highlights cost-effective method of lowering heart disease risks
08-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
As US policy experts continue to search for ways to reengineer the country's health-care system, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that a case-management approach helped a diverse group of patients reduce their overall risk of heart disease by roughly 10 percent, and did so in a cost-effective way.
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- Vulnerable groups are not at higher risk of physician-assisted death
09-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
Claims that vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and people with physical or mental disabilities, are at an increased risk of physician-assisted death are not supported by evidence, says an expert in this week's BMJ.
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