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Mandating Fruits and Vegetables in School Meals Makes a Difference, Study Finds
March 12, 2013 State laws that require minimum levels of fruits and vegetables in school meals may give a small boost to the amount of these foods in adolescents' diets, according to a new ... > full story -
No Good Evidence That Mouthguards and Helmets Ward Off Concussion
March 11, 2013 Mouthguards and helmets can help ward off other serious head and facial injuries, but there is no good evidence that they can help prevent concussion, and paradoxically, they may even encourage ... > full story -
Kids Exposed to Millions of Tobacco Images/messages Every Week on Prime Time UK TV
March 11, 2013 UK children are being exposed to millions of tobacco images/messages every week on prime time television, indicates new ... > full story -
Largely Dismissed Heart Failure Drug May Help Solve Costly Problem for Medicare and Hospitals
March 11, 2013 The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that heart ... > full story -
Online Records Could Expose Intimate Details and Personality Traits of Millions
March 11, 2013 Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from "traces" left by seemingly innocuous digital behavior, in this case Facebook Likes -- raising ... > full story -
Antibiotic Resistance 'Has the Potential to Undermine Modern Health Systems,' Say Experts
March 11, 2013 Antibiotic resistance "has the potential to undermine modern health systems," argue health economists. They believe that an increase in resistant organisms coupled with a big fall in the number of ... > full story -
Ground-Level Ozone Falling Faster Than Model Predicted
March 11, 2013 While dangerous ozone levels have fallen with reductions in emissions from vehicles and industry, a new study suggests a model widely used to predict the impact of remediation efforts has been too ... > full story -
The Dynamic of Spain's Population Follows the Maximum Entropy Principle
March 11, 2013 A team of Spanish and Argentinean researchers has verified that the distribution of the inhabitants in each Spanish province evolves in accordance with the maximum entropy principle in the field of ... > full story -
Does Winning an Emmy, an Election, or Entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame Mean You Will Live Longer Than Those You Beat?
March 11, 2013 Research has long linked high socioeconomic status with better health and lower mortality. But what’s remained unclear is whether this association has more to do with access to resources ... > full story -
Some Biologists Shun New Media
March 8, 2013 An online survey of neuroscientists in Germany and the United States found that, although in both countries researchers believe "new media" such as blogs and online social networks are important in ... > full story
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