May 11, 2013
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Better body armor and rapid aeromedical evacuations enable American service members to survive blasts that would have proved fatal in Vietnam or even the first Gulf War, but they pose new challenges to military medicine – how to deal with the excruciating pain of injuries, especially severe burns from IED blasts that body armor can’t protect. Continue reading
April 26, 2013
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New research focuses on the difficulties of transitioning to adulthood while dealing with the long-term and late effects of cancer and its treatment. Continue reading
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Incorporating an electrocardiogram (ECG) during pre-participation screening for athletes has demonstrated a reduction in incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD); however, it remains controversial in the United States due to minimal usage and high false-positive readings. New research suggests this is due to the challenges in the accuracy and reliability of physicians’ ability to read ECGs. Continue reading
April 10, 2013
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After virtually eliminating arsenic as a useful tool for homicide, science now faces challenges in doing the same for natural sources of this fabled old “inheritance powder” that contaminates water supplies and food, threatening more than 35 million pe… Continue reading
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Mention great challenges in feeding a soaring world population, and thoughts turn to providing a bare subsistence diet for poverty-stricken people in developing countries. But an expert described a parallel and often-overlooked challenge of feeding a l… Continue reading
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Families can be key players in a revolution needed to feed the world, and could save money by helping to cut food losses now occurring from field to fork to trash bin, an expert said. He described that often-invisible waste in food — 4 out of every 10 pounds produced in the United States alone — and the challenges of feeding a global population of 9 billion. Continue reading
April 7, 2013
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Researchers have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, scientists have shown stress circuits are capable of self-tuning following a singl… Continue reading
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The realization of quantum networks is one of the major challenges of modern physics. Now, new research shows how high-quality photons can be generated from “solid-state” chips, bringing us closer to the quantum “Internet.” Continue reading
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Researcher found that getting intrusive could increase student support at universities. The researcher examined intrusive advising — working with at-risk students to identify challenges and solutions to overcome them — in residence halls. Continue reading
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Researchers have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to … Continue reading
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Toddlers whose parents praised their efforts more than they praised them as individuals had a more positive approach to challenges five years later. That’s the finding of a new longitudinal study that also found gender differences in the kind of prai… Continue reading
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There are extra challenges when accidents occur in hard-to-reach locations such as in a tunnel or impassable mountain terrain where no stable computer networks are found. For the past ten years, however, technology for mobile ad hoc networks that enabl… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 28, 2013
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Convincing more people of the importance of the challenges we face is crucial, yet it’s not always easy to do. This sometimes happen because we’re only giving partial information, leaving too many blanks in our explanations. Continue reading
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The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight. A new paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 centimeters in length which pre-dates bird-like dinosaurs that birds… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 23, 2013
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Filipinos have been an invisible minority in Annapolis, Md., for more than a century. Now, researchers are using oral histories as a way to flesh out their life and times — documenting the incredible challenges they faced — and successes they celebra… Continue reading
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Following a hospitalization, patients face many challenges as they transition home. A new study of this vulnerable period found that a substantial number of patients return to the emergency department soon after leaving the hospital, and, while such pa… Continue reading
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An extensive genomic study of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma reinforces the challenges in treating the most aggressive forms of this disease. Unexpectedly, the scientists found relatively few recurrent gene mutations. Continue reading
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In New York CIty, feral cats get clever shelters to help them with life-threatening challenges. Continue reading
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For years, scientists have been working to find the key to restoring dystrophin, but they have faced many challenges. After careful evaluation of 22 dogs, researchers found that the new version of the micro-dystrophin gene not only reduced inflammation… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 10, 2013
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As cancer treatment in pill form transforms how care is delivered, a new study underscores the challenges patients face in administering their own chemotherapy outside the supervised environment of a cancer clinic. Continue reading
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