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Friday, January 07, 2011
Tweets from popular news organizations have a major influence on hot Twitter topics, but a Northwestern University analysis of the Top Twitter Trends in 2010 shows that celebrities, such as Adam Lambert and Conan O’Brian, sometimes beat out news organizations and reigned as Twitter’s top influencers on big news stories.
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Thom Canalichio on 01/07 at 01:40 PM
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Friday, January 07, 2011
Health care reform as presented will be good for Americans, according to Dr. Joel Rudin, a professor in the Management and Entrepreneurship Department in the Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J. He’s available to comment.
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Craig Jones on 01/07 at 11:31 AM
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
Women who have multiple sclerosis (MS) are more likely to have a gene associated with multiple sclerosis than men with the disease and it is this gene region where environment interacts with the genetics, according to a study published in the January 5, 2011, online issue of Neurology®.
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Craig Jones on 01/06 at 02:31 PM
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
“Our findings indicate that more awareness about the frequent use of these tests may be needed among care providers, hospitals and parents,” says Adam L. Dorfman, M.D., clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of radiology at the U-M Medical School.
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Craig Jones on 01/04 at 12:29 PM
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Starch granules from plant food were discovered trapped in the dental calculus on 40-thousand-year-old Neandertal teeth, leading scientists to believe that Neandertals ate a wide variety of plants and included cooked grains as part of a more sophisticated, diverse diet similar to early modern humans.
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Craig Jones on 12/28 at 08:50 AM
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Monday, December 20, 2010
The first step to reaching your ideal weight in the New Year may be as simple as writing it down, says Dr. Christopher J. Mosunic, a specialist in weight management and diabetes at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Thom Canalichio on 12/20 at 05:24 PM
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Monday, December 13, 2010
We spend fewer years of our lives without disease, even though we live longer. A 20-year-old today can expect to live one less healthy year over his or her lifespan than a 20-year-old a decade ago.
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Craig Jones on 12/13 at 01:17 PM
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
One of the world’s foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don’t moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences of climate change faster than we can adapt to them.
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Craig Jones on 12/08 at 11:31 AM
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
vidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, according to Arizona State University scientists who are part of a NASA-funded research team reporting findings in the Dec. 2 online Science Express.
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Craig Jones on 12/02 at 03:26 PM
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The new era of Weight Watchers is here. The world-renowned leader in weight management has announced s a successor to its popular POINTS weight loss system – the new PointsPlus program.
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Thom Canalichio on 11/30 at 01:23 PM
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