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Simple Hand-washing Video For Visitors Could Reduce Rapidly Increasing
Families visiting sick children significantly improved their hand-washing technique after being shown a simple and inexpensive video. Researchers monitored visits by123 families to see how they could improve hygiene and reduce hospital acquired infections like MRSA, which are a major cause of ill health and death among children in intensive care. Unique Software For Preventing Pesticide Drift
The first user-friendly computer software for estimating the droplet drift distances for pesticide spray applications has been released by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Ohio State University (OSU) agricultural engineers. 'Bridge' Protein Spurs Deadliest Stages Of Breast Cancer
A protein known for its ability to "bridge"interactions between other cellular proteins may spur metastasis in breast cancer, the disease's deadliest stage, a study from Burnham Institute for Medical Research has found. Worldmapper Draws Attention To The World's Health Inequalities
Worldmapper is a collection of cartograms that rescale the size of territories in proportion to the value being mapped. Examples of values that are mapped are public health spending, malaria cases, HIV prevalence and number of physicians. New Study Supports Stopping And Restarting School Buses To Cut Emissio
New evidence suggests that anti-idling advocates are on the right track in an ongoing debate over exhaust emissions from school buses. Regulations limiting the idling of school buses while students are getting on and off resulted from studies of children's exposure to airborne diesel pollutants during loading and unloading buses. Are Bullies After Our Culture?
David Bollier's Brand Name Bullies seeks to expose the 'quest to own and control our culture.' But the book's real value is in its numerous case studies of copyright and trademark battles. By Amit Asaravala. Healthy Diet And Lifestyle Behaviors Associated With Decreased Risk Of
Women who eat a healthy diet, drink moderate amounts of alcohol, are physically active, maintain a healthy weight and do not smoke have a significantly reduced risk of heart attack, according to a new report. Hummer Owners Claim Moral High Ground To Excuse Overconsumption, Study
Hummer drivers believe they are defending America's frontier lifestyle against anti-American critics, according to a new study. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. The Eye Of The Fly: HHMI Professor And 138 Undergraduates Identify Ess
A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) professor and 138 of his undergraduates have co-authored a paper that provides the first genome-wide estimate of vital genes that are also essential for eye development of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
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