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Month: January 2013
Vitamin D supplementation does not reduce knee pain, cartilage loss in patients with osteoarthritis
In a two-year randomized trial, patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis who received vitamin D supplementation…
Failure rate of antibiotic treatment for gonorrhea documented
In an examination of the effectiveness of cefixime, the only oral cephalosporin antimicrobial recommended for…
Post-operative intravenous acetaminophen may help reduce use of morphine in infants
Among infants undergoing major surgery, postoperative use of intermittent intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) for the management…
Testing Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 in outer space
A team of physicists have stirred the physics community with an intriguing idea yet to…
New approach for simulating supernovas
Researchers are trying to bridge the gap between studies of supernova blasts and the remnants…
Bottom-up approach provides first characterization of pyroelectric nanomaterials
By taking a “bottom-up” approach, researchers have observed for the first time that “size does…
Weight counseling decreases despite rise in obesity
While the number of overweight and obese Americans has increased, the amount of weight counseling…
First ‘bone’ of the Milky Way identified
Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy — a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and…
Two-drug combination may slow deadly thyroid cancer
A combination of the drugs pazopanib and paclitaxel shows promise in slowing anaplastic thyroid cancer…