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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Does playing violent video games make players aggressive? It is a question that has taxed researchers, sociologists, and regulators ever since the first console was plugged into a TV and the first shots fired in a shoot 'em up game.Writing in the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, Patrick ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Conference Archives, Inc. (CAI), a leader in meeting presentation capture and distribution, is pleased to announce that The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), a professional organization representing more than 4,500 physicians, scientists, and technologists who work in the field of cardiovascular computed tomography, has agreed to deliver their annual ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Health Grades on Wednesday announced it will expand its online health care facilities and services grading tool to include information and ratings of prescription medications, Dow Jones reports. The new program will feature information on 4,345 prescription medications, including which drugs are most commonly prescribed and whether use of a ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers calculated the likely distribution ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Masimo, the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) and Measure-Through Motion-and-Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, announced it has received FDA clearance for its breakthrough noninvasive and continuous total hemoglobin monitoring technology (SpHb(TM)). The availability of Masimo SpHb technology should make hemoglobin measurement ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The NPA has brought together all members of the pharmacy IT supply chain including PMR suppliers, aggregators and transaction brokers to allow the NPA, on behalf of its members, to raise issues and concerns and discuss potential solutions with those responsible for implementing IT (and EPS in particular) in community ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Biological and computing networks share important design constraints as they increase in scale. Modern microprocessors contain billions of transistors in a few square centimeters, and the Internet connects half a billion hosts distributed over the surface area of the earth. The mathematical framework used to describe biological scaling also ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
According to international standards, only a third of Spanish hospital websites can be considered accessible. This is one of the conclusions reached in the first study to compare Spanish hospital websites with those of other countries, a study conducted by researchers at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Elche, Alicante.A ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro- Cluster, is the first in a highly energy-efficient class of machines to be shipped ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today's conventional supercomputers.In a paper published in the May ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Authoritative drug information is now even easier to access with the addition of electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) data to the GP section of Searchmedica.co.uk.Now when you search for information on a drug, using its brand or generic name, a direct link will appear above the main search results, taking you ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Hospitals and other medical settings are becoming a "hunting ground for identity thieves" who "use medical information to get credit card numbers, drain bank accounts or falsely bill Medicare and other insurers," according to some experts, USA Today reports. Identity thieves often find stealing medical identities more profitable than the ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan has unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior as it relates to the environment. "Greendex™ 2008: Consumer Choice and the Environment - A Worldwide Tracking Survey" looks at environmentally sustainable consumption and behavior among consumers in ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Telehealth, using telecommunication technology to deliver health care, is increasingly being used to improve the delivery and availability of health care services to patients. A University of Missouri researcher found that patients who received a telehealth intervention from care providers had significantly delayed hospital readmission rates when compared to patients ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Add university research to the long list of human activities contributing to global warming.Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, is a committed environmentalist who found that his own research produces 44 tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tonnes."I did my PhD on ...
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