Archive: 13/07/2012
Copper's previously unknown exit strategy
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have long known that the body rids itself of excess copper and various other minerals by collecting them in the liver and excreting them through the livers bile. However, a new study led ...
Jul 13, 2012
Giving time can give you time
(Medical Xpress) -- Many people these days feel a sense of time faminenever having enough minutes and hours to do everything. We all know that our objective amount of time cant be increased (there ...
Jul 13, 2012
Psychologists discover links between angry thoughts and displaced aggression in male gang affiliates
(Medical Xpress) -- Research conducted among pupils in three London schools has shown that male street gang affiliates who engage in angry rumination (i.e. think continuously about provoking or negative events and situations) ...
Jul 13, 2012
English hospitals can improve their performance
NHS hospitals have substantial scope to improve their efficiency by adopting best practice, according to research published today by Professor Andrew Street and colleagues at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University ...
Jul 13, 2012
More abortion restrictions anticipated in US state
(AP) The owner of Mississippi's only abortion clinic said Thursday she expected legislators to keep trying to put new restrictions on the facility and the procedure, regardless of how a federal judge rules in a fight ...
Jul 13, 2012
Fat studies conference challenges supersize stereotypes
Cat Pause proudly describes herself as "fat", can live with euphemisms like "curvy", "chunky" or "chubby", but baulks at what she believes are value-laden labels such as "overweight" or "obese".
Jul 13, 2012
Twenty percent of US women were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent in 2000
Twenty percent of U.S. women (18.7 million) ages 19-64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report on women's health care. An additional 16.7 million women ...
Jul 13, 2012