Many older Americans take the blood thinner warfarin to help guard against heart trouble. However, a new study suggests use of the drug is tied to a temporary spike in the risk of stroke for people with a common heart rhythm disorder. ...
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The more people weigh, the higher their health care costs, a new study finds. The findings may give people another reason to pledge to shed excess pounds next year, the Duke University researchers said. The investigators analyzed the ...
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Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk for breast or ovarian cancer, an influential panel of health experts announced Monday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...
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NCGA Announces National Corn Yield Contest Winners for 2013 ST. LOUIS -- Advanced production techniques, informed growing practices and improved seed varieties helped corn growers achieve high yields in the National Corn Growers ...
California's marketplace director reports enrollment for health insurance increased to 15,000 per day,a non-profit group specializing in healthcare says. Sara Collins and Tracy Garber of the Commonwealth Fund in New York said following ...
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People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
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Spanish fashion retailer Mango is planning to take on rivals such as Inditex and H&M by opening a store a day worldwide and rapidly ramping up its expansion in China. Founder and chairman Isak Andic told financial magazine Expansion on ...
Game has raised $222,344 An officially licensed Mega Man: The Board Game has been successfully backed on Kickstarter. The game, deemed a 'love letter to one of the best video game characters of all time' by creator Jasco Games, has ...
Tags: Board Game, Toys
Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet, the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495. Nowadays you can have full ...
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The invention relates to the field of electrochemical capacitors and, in particular, electrochemical supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which ...
Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced the signing of a global distribution agreement with Alliance Memory Inc., a ...
In the recent times, people are turning towards pumps that have lower maintenance costs; thereby, monoblock pumps are the most preferred for both domestic and commercial usage. These have various benefits and features associated that makes ...
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Israel-based medical device company Brainsway has obtained an investigational device exemption (IDE) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a clinical trial for assessing the efficacy of its Deep TMS ...
We went into the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials with what we thought were realistic expectations. And generally, we had the right idea: the robots are very slow, very deliberate, and not always successful. But overall, we've been surprised ...
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The early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine today's deadline for enrolling for health insurance that would begin Jan. 1, as well as a variety of other health law stories and several articles on mental health ...