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Employees Pay More and Get Less from Medical Coverage

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:11 am

Workers are paying 14% more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.

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Seeing Clearly With an Iris Implant

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:10 am

Patients who benefit from the artificial iris fall into two main categories: people who were born without an iris and those whose iris is damaged or destroyed in some sort of traumatic injury.

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Ants take on Goliath role in protecting trees in the savanna from elephants

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:08 am

Columns of angered ants will crawl up into elephant trunks to repel the ravenous beasts from devouring tree cover throughout drought-plagued East African savannas, playing a potentially important role in regulating carbon sequestration in these ecosystems

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Popular OTC medicines so dangerous that only doctors should prescribe them, says FDA

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:07 am

Though the drug is abused less than codeine, another popular brain-altering drug, dextromethorphan sent roughly 8,000 people to the emergency room in 2008. This is nearly twice the amount it sent in 2004.

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Antibiotic tainted beef illegally sold for human consumption

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:06 am

Scenic View Dairy of Hamilton, Mich., is currently the subject of a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for selling beef that tested positive for illegal levels of neomycin, penicillin and sulfadimethoxine.

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Share and share alike?

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:05 am

"the majority of consumers plan to spend the same or more money on green products in the coming year, with more than 70 per cent of consumers in China, India and Brazil saying they will spend more." In addition, the report stated that "the majority of consumers – over 60 per cent – in all countries want to buy from environmentally responsible companies."

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Boost your athletic performance with this proven amino acid

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:03 am

University of Exeter (UE), researchers discovered that L-arginine, one of the 20 most common natural amino acids, helps increase exercise capacity by 20 percent and race times by up to two percent.

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Black Rice: Your New Source For Antioxidants

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:02 am

"Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants," Zhimin Xu,

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Vitamin D really does prevent cancer, autoimmune diseases

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:01 am

Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Chron's disease, leukemia -- these and many more diseases are often caused by a lack of vitamin D.

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Cranberry Juice Fights Bacteria

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:58 am

"A number of controlled clinical trials -- these are carefully designed and conducted scientific studies done in humans -- have concluded that cranberry juice really is effective for preventing urinary tract infections,"...

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Exclusive: Microsoft opens up about Windows 7 energy savings

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:57 am

According to the company, Windows 7 operates using about 30 per cent less energy that its previous operating system Windows XP – savings that when multiplied globally are likely to lead to significant cuts in carbon emissions.

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Docs' Religion Tied to End-of-Life Care (CME/CE)

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:55 am

The religious beliefs of physicians who treat patients at the end of life appear to influence clinical decision-making...

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Curing the Incurable

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:46 am

They reported on a new family of potential drugs that are capable of blocking a key protein that's involved in the development of cancer. Called stapled peptides, it holds the peptides, or protein fragments, in a compact shape that gives them high stability in comparison to their unfolded versions.

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Genetic Variation Linked to Fuchs' Corneal Dystrophy (CME/CE)

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:44 am

Fuchs' corneal dystrophy affects about 5% of the population, they noted, and a predictive test would be especially useful for patients about to undergo cataract or Lasik surgery.

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What next for the floundering war on plastic bags?

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:41 am

As new figures today reveal, supermarkets have again failed to hit a target for cutting plastic bag use - Jessica Shankleman asks if it's time for the government to legislate

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Mosquitoes: Genetic structure of first animal to show evolutionary response to climate change determined

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:40 am

"Although this small mosquito has become the poster child for genetic response to climate change," says William Bradshaw, one of the paper's co-authors, "its evolution during post-glacial invasion of North America has been a question."

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Carbon traders demand EU action to restore ebbing market confidence

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:38 am

In particular, the letter calls on the EU to confirm how many UN-approved carbon offsets can be used during the next phase of the scheme to help European businesses meet the carbon caps imposed through the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS).

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US motorists warm to electric car invasion

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:36 am

Four out of 10 US adults are keen to test-drive an electric vehicle (EV), a new study has found, suggesting manufacturers in the emerging sector could be pushing against an open door.

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Pesticides may be a leading cause of major diseases

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:35 am

"A read through of the scientific literature on pesticides and major preventable diseases afflicting us in the 21st century suggests that one of the first responses called for is an all out effort to stop using toxic pesticides,"...

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In it for the money? Surgeons with financial stake in clinic operate twice as much

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:34 am

They found that owners of surgery centers operated on patients twice as frequently as those who did not own such centers. In addition, individual doctors' surgery rates increased more rapidly over time after they purchased a stake in a surgery center than non-owners' rates over the same time period.

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 10:34 am | Read Full Article

Plus-Size Teen Waistlines Expanding (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:39 am

The increases in adiposity were also more pronounced in black girls and other ethnic groups.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:39 am | Read Full Article

Zinc helps prevent pneumonia in the elderly

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:38 am

In a study of over 600 seniors from 33 different nursing homes in the Boston area, researchers found that seniors with healthy blood levels of zinc are 50 percent less likely to develop pneumonia than those with sub-par levels.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:38 am | Read Full Article

Drug Industry: A Market for Harm?

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:34 am

In one study of 111 final applications for drug approval, Light said 42 percent lacked adequately randomized trials, 40 percent had flawed testing of doses, 39 percent lacked evidence of clinical efficacy, and 49 percent raised concerns about adverse side effects.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:34 am | Read Full Article

Ben and Jerry's 'natural' ice cream filled with unnatural ingredients

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:33 am

According to CSPI at least 90 percent of the flavors used in "All Natural" Ben & Jerry's ice cream are not actually natural.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:33 am | Read Full Article

Blagojevich, political corruption and health care reform

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:32 am

Lying is a matter of course for "successful" politicians, from the day their campaign begins to their last day in office

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:32 am | Read Full Article

For teens, early sex and media exposure not linked, analysis finds

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:30 am

"When looking at the relation between a given behavior and given experience, it could look like there is a correlation, when in fact the relationship is dependent on something else entirely."

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:30 am | Read Full Article

Scientists brew up powerful whisky biofuel

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:29 am

Biofuels made from whisky by-products could be available on Scottish roads within a few years after a team of researchers at Edinburgh Napier's Biofuel Research Centre this week filed for a patent for the new fuel.

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Scientists say salmonella helps immune system to destroy cancer cells

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:28 am

Scientists from Italy and the U.S. claim to have found a new therapeutic way to assist the body in defending against and killing cancer cells -- salmonella bacteria.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:28 am | Read Full Article

New study: 85% of Big Pharma’s new drugs are "lemons" and pose health risks to users

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:27 am

Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits -- but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:27 am | Read Full Article

GM sugar takes a beeting from US court decision

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:25 am

According to the ruling, chemical company Monsanto was granted the right to sell genetically modified (GM) sugar beets five years ago without a thorough enough approval by the USDA.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:25 am | Read Full Article

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