News tagged with magnitude
Symbols, such as traffic lights, on menus effective in educating diners
A little-noticed provision of the Affordable Care Act requires all chain restaurants and retail food establishments with 20 or more locations to list calorie counts on their menus. But according to research ...
Health
Mar 13, 2013 |
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Brain study explores what makes colors and numbers collide
Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Nov ...
Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Mobile phone data help track populations during disasters
Mobile phone positioning data can be used to monitor population movements during disasters and outbreaks, according to a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The study, conducted by Linus Bengtsson and colleagues from t ...
Health
Aug 30, 2011 |
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New data show countries around the world grappling with changing health challenges
Alzheimer's disease is the fastest growing threat to health in the US. HIV/AIDS and alcohol are severely eroding the health of Russians. Violence is claiming the lives of young men in large swaths of Latin America, constituting ...
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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Overuse of surveillance colonoscopy after resection
(HealthDay)—Approximately one-third of patients with normal results on their first and second colonoscopies after undergoing curative resection for colorectal cancer undergo subsequent surveillance colonoscopies ...
Cancer
Feb 01, 2013 |
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Study suggests repeat testing common among medicare beneficiaries
A study suggests that diagnostic tests are frequently repeated among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine.
Health
Nov 19, 2012 |
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Smoking increases, while alcohol consumption may decrease risk of ALS
A population-based case-control study of the rare but devastating neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has shown that the risk of such disease is increased among smokers, as has been shown previously. ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 13, 2012 |
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Pathophysiology may help ID rare, early form of Alzheimer's
(HealthDay) -- In dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease, clinical and biomarker changes occur decades before the expected onset of disease symptoms, according to a study published online July 11 in the ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Jul 12, 2012 |
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Higher pain tolerance in athletes may hold clues for pain management
Stories of athletes bravely "playing through the pain" are relatively common and support the widespread belief that they experience pain differently than non-athletes. Yet, the scientific data on pain perception in athletes ...
Medical research
May 17, 2012 |
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Study assesses glucose monitoring trends in tweens
(HealthDay) -- During the transition to adolescence, children with type 1 diabetes monitor their blood glucose less frequently, resulting in significant increases in HbA1c levels, according to research published ...
Diabetes
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Can video games teach us how to behave?
For the first time, the positive effects of computer games on thoughts, emotions and behaviour will be the subject of closer scrutiny by social psychologists. A total of three studies will explore how, to ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 12, 2011 |
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ASGE initiative addresses endoscopy simulators for training and skill assessment
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's (ASGE) Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable Endoscopic Innovations (PIVI) initiative addresses the use of endoscopy simulators for training and assessing skills ...
Other
Sep 19, 2012 |
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Smoking and natural disasters: Christchurch residents increase tobacco consumption post-earthquake
The prevalence of smoking in Christchurch, New Zealand, increased following the 2010 earthquake, according to a new study.
Health
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Magnitude
Magnitude Is A Part Of An Earthquakes Magnitude may refer to:
In mathematics:
In astronomy:
As an earthquake unit of measure:
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