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DARPA Responded by Launching Its Biggest and Most Ambitious Robot R&D Program Yet
Jan 3, 2014"Where are the robots?" That was what many people were asking when events at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant spiraled out of control in March 2011. With deadly levels of radiation collecting inside the damaged reactors, attempting to ...
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Adults Should Receive Annual Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography
Jan 3, 2014High-risk adults between the ages of 55 and 80 should receive annual lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography, according to final recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force being published in Annals of ...
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Hemiplegia Caused by Stroke Indicates The Dysfunctions of The Neurological Network
Jan 3, 2014Hemiplegia caused by stroke indicates the dysfunctions of the neurological network between the brain and limbs. Under this condition, conventional acupuncture at the acupoints on the affected side can not transmit stimulus signal to the ...
Tags: hemiplegia, stroke, conventional acupuncture, contralateral needling
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Melatonin Has a Major Role in Pain Transmission and Has an Ultra-Sensitizing Effect
Jan 3, 2014Accumulating research indicates that melatonin has a major role in pain transmission and has an ultra-sensitizing effect. Dr. Fang Huang and colleagues from Sun Yat-sen University in China for the first time located the distribution of ...
Tags: melatonin, pain transmission, ultra-sensitizing effect
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Doctors Would Share Information About Sex with Their Teenage Patients
Jan 3, 2014Doctors are missing a prime opportunity to share information about sex with their teenage patients by failing to broach the subject during checkups, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. The study, published Dec. 30, 2013, in JAMA ...
Tags: sex, teenage patients, sexuality, doctors and teenage patients talk
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Tripling Taxes Would Reduce The Number of Smokers by One-Third
Jan 3, 2014Tripling taxes on cigarettes around the world would reduce the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other diseases this century, according to a review published today in the New ...
Tags: taxes on cigarettes, number of smokers, lung cancer, stop smoking
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Eastern Was Completed Effective January 1, 2014
Jan 3, 2014ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) announced today that its acquisition of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Eastern) was completed effective January 1, 2014. Eastern's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the transaction at a special ...
Tags: ProAssurance Corporation, acquisition, Eastern Insurance Holdings
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The Practice Will Become Part of MEDNAX's American Anesthesiology Division
Jan 3, 2014MEDNAX, Inc., (NYSE: MD) today announced the acquisition of Summit Anesthesia Associates, P.A., a physician group practice primarily based in Summit, New Jersey. The practice will become part of MEDNAX's American Anesthesiology division and ...
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TEC Has Launched Its Expert Advice Blog, an Industry Journal Dedicated to Subscribers
Jan 3, 2014TEC has launched its Expert Advice blog, an industry journal dedicated to providing subscribers with valuable installation advice through written posts and videos. Available on the company’s website and through subscription email, ...
Tags: decoration, floor
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Teens Would Raise Their Risk of Crashes and/or Near-Crash Incidents
Jan 3, 2014Teens may begin their driving habits with great caution, but as months behind the wheel pass, they begin to multi-task at higher frequency rates - dialing cell phones, eating, and talking to passengers, etc. - and therefore greatly raise ...
Tags: teens health, driving habits, novice drivers, multi-task during driving
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ACR Will Help Ensure Safe, Effective Diagnostic Care for Those at High-Risk for Cancer
Jan 3, 2014The American College of Radiology (ACR) supports the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation (Grade B) for low-dose computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening of adults aged 55 to 80 years who have a 30 ...
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Doctors Would Treat High Blood Pressure in Women Earlier
Jan 3, 2014Doctors may need to treat high blood pressure in women earlier and more aggressively than they do in men, according to scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. In a new study, published in the December edition of Therapeutic ...
Tags: high blood pressure, women health, treatment
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Romosozumab Is an Investigational Medicine in Phase 3 Clinical Development
Jan 3, 2014Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and UCB (Euronext Brussels:UCB) today announced results from a Phase 2 trial evaluating romosozumab (AMG 785/CDP7851) in postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density (BMD). Published in the New England Journal of ...
Tags: Amgen, UCB, Phase 2 trial evaluating romosozumab, postmenopausal women
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The New Web Site Presence for Achema Fits Comfortably on Any Smartphone
Jan 3, 2014The trend towards miniaturisation is not restricted to process technology: The new web site presence for Achema fits comfortably on any smartphone. With eighteen months before the opening of Achema 2015, the global forum for the process ...
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The Most Extensive Study Undertaken Into Its Effect on The Symptoms
Jan 3, 2014Health organisations around the world recommend a form of psychotherapy, known as cognitive-behavioural therapy or CBT, for patients with schizophrenia. Now, however, the most extensive study ever undertaken into its effect on the symptoms ...
Tags: psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, schizophrenia
