Study: Bath time falls injure thousands of children annually
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - A new national study finds kids are being hurt in bathtubs and showers at a surprising rate.* You might think scalding or near drownings would be the most common threat in the bathroom, but they're not. Experts at Nationwide Children's Hospital say slips and falls are far mo...VA Reopening Health Care Enrollment to Thousands of Veterans
WASHINGTON, June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which now has nearly 8 million Veterans enrolled in its award-winning health care system, is poised to welcome nearly 266,000 more Veterans into its medical centers and clinics across the country by expanding a...ARUP Laboratories Applauds FDA's Decision on the Value of KRAS-Mutation Testing in Colorectal Cancer
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...an originate in the same way that modern pandemics do, namely by jumping from animals to humans" Wolfe said. "We now know that malaria, while at least thousands of years old, did not originate in humans but rather was introduced into our species, presumably by the bite of a mosquito that had previously fed on ...GAA Calls on Secretary Clinton to Speak Out Against Gender-Based Violence During Her Africa Trip
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This release is available in German . Europe's borders have been breached by thousands of plants and animal species from other parts of the world: from the American mink to the New Zealand flatworm. The invaders feed on, hybridise with, parasitise and out-compete native species. They also...Atlantic tuna return thousands of miles to birthplace to spawn
COLLEGE STATION, Oct. 2, 2008 The Atlantic bluefin tuna is the largest and most sought-after of all tunas, weighing as much as 1,400 pounds and capable of fetching as much as $50,000 or more in Asian markets where its meat is a prized commodity, one big reason why its numbers have decline...U-M scientists remove thousands of aspens to glimpse forest's future
PELLSTON, Mich.---Armed with chainsaws and pry bars, University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues recently hastened the end for nearly 7,000 mature aspen and birch trees in a large-scale, long-term experiment to glimpse the Great Lakes region's future forests. A band of bark was stri...Stanford researchers say living corals thousands of years old hold clues to past climate changes
Using radiocarbon dating and samples of deep-sea corals snipped from the floor of the Pacific Ocean by a submersible, researchers from Stanford and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that deep-sea corals growing off Hawaii are much older than previously thoughtsome as old as 4,...Body weight influenced by thousands of genes
PHILADELPHIA (January 14, 2008) Reporting in the online journal BMC Genetics, researchers from the Monell Center have for the first time attempted to count the number of genes that contribute to obesity and body weight. The findings suggest that over 6,000 genes about 25 percent of the genom...Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously
A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis is making molecules the new-fashioned way ?selectively harnessing thousands of minuscule electrodes on a tiny computer chip that do chemical reactions and yield molecules that bind to receptor sites. Kevin Moeller, Ph.D., Washington University profess...DaVita Treats Thousands of Dialysis Patients in Wake of Hurricane Ike
57 of DaVita's 58 Houston Dialysis Centers Open EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), a leading provider of kidney care services in the United States, is caring for thousands of dialysis patients, despite the loss of power to millions of peop...Creating thousands of jobs, Chicagos biotech space to triple
In 1996, Hillary Clinton authored a book entitled "It Takes a Village" in which she posited the view that the towns and villages of our country surrounding our children were in essence extended families that helped rear children. While the primary responsibility of child rearing was that of a ...Bacteria pack their own demise
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