"A bold vision is again required," said Ronald F. Lehman, director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and co-chair of the committee that wrote the report.
Mar 6, 2009
Here is a statement from Dr. Sandy Andelman, co-author of the study titled "Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest" and Vice-President of the TEAM Network at Conservation International:
Mar 5, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, March 5, 2009 - Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department…
Mar 5, 2009
Calgary, AB - A new study headed by Dr. Tom Feasby, Dean of UCalgary's Faculty of Medicine, shows that while Canada lags behind other countries in the number of diagnostic imaging devices, more machines are not the only solution to long wait times.
Mar 5, 2009
(PHILADELPHIA) - Sick or injured African-American patients wait about an hour longer than patients of other races before being transferred to an inpatient…
Mar 5, 2009
GALVESTON, Texas - Women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), commonly known as the birth control shot, gained an average of 11 pounds and increased…
Mar 5, 2009
An advance copy of the study appears online this week in the Journal of Neurology, the official publication of the European Neurological Society.
Mar 5, 2009
Telomeres, structures that cap the ends of cells' chromosomes, grow shorter with each round of cell division unless a specialized enzyme replenishes them.
Mar 4, 2009
Cell phones are a danger on the road in more ways than one. Two new studies show that talking on the phone while traveling, whether you're driving or on foot…
Mar 4, 2009
Only 57 percent of Mexican-American students graduate from high school, and 11 percent receive college degrees, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Mar 4, 2009
"Although HHC is the fastest growing sector in the health care industry, data are particularly sparse with respect to patient and provider safety in this…
Mar 4, 2009
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL, March 4, 2009 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev engineers have developed a technique to "denature" plutonium created in large nuclear reactors, making it unsuitable for use in nuclear arms.
Mar 4, 2009
The world economic situation is fertile ground for anxiety, some realistic and other perpetuated from misinformation and personal agendas.
Mar 4, 2009
A research group led Miguel Ángel Fullana, researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, psychologist the…
Mar 4, 2009
