Archive for November, 2009

Finding Phone Numbers in United States

Monday, November 16th, 2009

There is nothing more frustrating than finding phone numbers when you have received a call on your cell phone but you do not know who is calling.
Fortunately for citizens in United States this is no longer a problem.
The increase in cellular subscribers in the United States has ed hardy

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Young athletes need dual screening tests for heart defects, study suggests

Monday, November 16th, 2009

To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according to new research from heart experts at Johns Hopkins.
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Protein changes in heart strengthen link between Alzheimer’s disease and chronic heart failure

Monday, November 16th, 2009

A team of U.S., Canadian and Italian scientists led by researchers at Johns Hopkins report evidence from studies in animals and humans supporting a link between Alzheimer’s disease and chronic heart failure, two of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States.
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Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex hormones

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone.
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Postmortem genetic tests after sudden death may provide less expensive way to identify risk

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Targeted postmortem testing to identify genetic mutations associated with sudden unexplained death (SUD) is an effective and less expensive way to determine risk to relatives than comprehensive cardiac testing of first degree relatives, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2009.
Postmortem genetic testing can identify mutations that cause c
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Early cooling in cardiac arrest may improve survival

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Rapidly cooling a person in cardiac arrest may improve their chance of survival without brain damage, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2009.
“We now have a method that is safe and can be started within minutes of cardiac arrest to minimize damage during this very critical period,” said Maaret CastrĂ©n, M.D., lead author of the study and
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Study finds mixed results comparing two surgical strategies for infant heart defect

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure — yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2009.
Babies born with a critically underdeveloped left side of their hearts require three surgeries to correct
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Largest gene study of childhood IBD identifies 5 new genes

Monday, November 16th, 2009

In the largest, most comprehensive genetic analysis of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an international research team has identified five new gene regions, including one involved in a biological pathway that helps drive the painful inflammation of the digestive tract that characterizes the disease.
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NIST demonstrates ‘universal’ programmable quantum processor

Monday, November 16th, 2009

BOULDER, Colo. — Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first “universal” programmable quantum information
processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics — the rules governing the submicroscopic world — using two quantum bits (qubits) of information.
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Island story

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small,
uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him,
and every day he scanned the horizon for help,
but none seemed forthcoming.
Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of
driftwood to protect him from the elements,

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