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Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
05-30-2007 · EurekAlert!New research from U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital may leave some parents wondering how well they know their child's pediatrician. The study found that as many as 17 percent of physicians in a single state who claim to be pediatricians on state licensure files have never been board certified as a pediatrician by the American Board of Pediatrics.
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A study of settlement decisions in workers' compensation claims for low back pain has found almost no relationship between the rating of the disability's severity when the claim was settlement and reported pain and disability 21 months later.
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- Oatmeal's health claims strongly reaffirmed, science shows
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- When less is more
10-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study found that, on average, European-Americans claim to be happy in general -- more happy than Asian-Americans or Koreans or Japanese -- but are more easily made less happy by negative events, and recover at a slower rate from negative events, than their counterparts in Asia or with an Asian ancestry. On the other hand, Koreans, Japanese and to a lesser extent, Asian-Americans, are less happy in general, but recover their emotional equilibrium more readily after a setback than European-Americans.
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- Pell grants do and don't lead to increases in higher education tuition
03-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Study supports notion that Mars once had ocean
06-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
UC Berkeley geophycists are providing strong evidence that Mars once had an ocean. Naysayers have argued that what appear to be ancient coastlines near the North Pole are too warped to be true seashores. The researchers claim, however, that this anomaly resulted from the tilt of Mars' spin axis 2 to 3 billion years ago, possibly because the weight of surface water made the planet tip like a weighted top.
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- Abandoning net neutrality discourages improvements in service
03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers might not be in the best interest of the millions of Americans, despite claims to the contrary, a new University of Florida study finds.
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08-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
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