Most parents would hotly deny favoring one child over another but new research suggests they…
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Patients’ Near Misses: Some Hospital’s ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Wristbands Look Like Lance Armstrong ‘Livestrong’ Bracelets
There are currently no standards of color choice for hospitals using color-coded wristbands, and each…
Orangutan Plan To Curb Carbon Emissions
Indonesia’s new 10 year action plan for conserving orangutans will have important benefits in mitigating…
Growth Factor Receptor Affects Prostate Cancer Progression
Breeding mice with a gene for a cellular receptor that can be turned on and…
Lack Of Deep Sleep May Increase Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes
Suppression of slow-wave sleep in healthy young adults significantly decreases their ability to regulate blood-sugar…
Possible Alternative To Open Chest Surgery
Tears in the aorta which affect thousands of people each year coast to coast, may…
World’s Most Powerful MRI Ready To Scan Human Brain
The world’s most powerful medical magnetic resonance imaging machine, the 9.4 Tesla at the University…
Kidney Donation After Cardiac Death May Expand Donor Pool, Research Shows
New research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center suggests that transplanting kidneys from donors…
NIST Helps Beam Time To TV Viewers In The Middle East
Millions of satellite television and radio users in North Africa and the Middle East can…
Few Emergency Rooms Fully Equipped For Pediatric Patients, Researchers Find
In the first survey to specifically measure hospital pediatric preparedness, a team of Los Angeles…