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If there’s no deficit reduction deal, what happens next?

November 22, 2011
Both parties are jockeying for position, trying to spin the super committee's expected announcement of failure into political victory. Meanwhile, some news outlets are examining what happens next for the automatic cuts, which will be triggered in 2013 if the deficit panel indeed does not offer a plan.

During The Great American Smokeout, Remember There’s Value In Stopping Smoking Before Surgery

November 18, 2011
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) strongly supports the Great American Smokeout because smoking can negatively impact surgical outcomes. In order to have the best possible results, it is important for patients to stay off cigarettes for as long as they can before and after surgery. Quitting smoking helps surgical ...

People rationalize situations they’re stuck with, but rebel when they think there’s an out

November 2, 2011
People who feel like they're stuck with a rule or restriction are more likely to be content with it than people who think that the rule isn't definite. The authors of a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...

Researchers show there’s more than one way to read – with implications for reading disorders

September 15, 2011
(Medical Xpress) -- With specificity and precision, the brain's Visual Word Form Area, or VWFA, does exactly what its name implies. Every time we see something that looks like a word, it activates. The VWFA is so adept at packaging visual input for the brain's language centers that the task ...

Health insurance — there’s an app for that

July 22, 2011
Japan's mobile phone triad knows their customers want more from their handsets than just calling and texting — standard Japanese models come equipped with applications to pay your train fare, buy a soft drink and even scan a coupon.

There’s a Little Neanderthal in Most of Us

July 22, 2011
FRIDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic research from Canadian scientists confirms early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals. An international team of researchers found that some of the human X chromosome can be traced to Neanderthals and is found in non-Africans everywhere. Neanderthals are thought to have lived ...

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

June 27, 2011
Speakers at an all-day conference at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) hailed a two-year-old federal law giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) power to regulate cigarettes as a key opportunity to further reduce smoking’s impact on people’s health.

An ‘all natural’ diet? There’s no such thing, book says new

June 7, 2011
(Medical Xpress) -- From the paleolithic diet to the raw food diet, many health-conscious Americans now want to eat the way they believe our ancient ancestors ate.

An ‘all natural’ diet? There’s no such thing

June 7, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio From the paleolithic diet to the raw food diet, many health-conscious Americans now want to eat the way they believe our ancient ancestors ate. But some of these dietary prescriptions make little sense for modern humans, according to a new book on the evolution ...

An ‘all natural’ diet? There’s no such thing

June 7, 2011
(Ohio State University) From the paleolithic diet to the raw food diet, many health-conscious Americans now want to eat the way they believe our ancient ancestors ate. But some of these dietary prescriptions make little sense for modern humans, according to a new book on the evolution of the ...

For children, there’s no place like (a dental) home

May 27, 2011
(Medical Xpress) -- Tooth decay is the most chronic disease among children. In one year, more than 51 million hours of school is missed because of tooth decay or other dental-related illness. And even when children with dental problems can attend school, research shows that these problems are distracting enough ...

There’s no magic number for saving endangered species

May 17, 2011
A new study offers hope for species such as the Siberian Tiger that might be considered 'too rare to save', so long as conservation efforts can target key threats.