U.S. Government Plans to Reduce Its Energy Use
The federal government, the largest user of energy in the country, will take steps to reduce its emissions by 28 percent by 2020, compared with 2008 levels.
Doctors cut back hours when risk of malpractice suit rises, study shows
A new study shows doctors work 1.7 hours less per week when medical liability risk increases by 10 percent. Such a decline in hours is the equivalent of one of every 35 physicians retiring without a replacement. Doctors age 55 and older and those wi…
PC sales boost Microsoft earnings by 60 per cent
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its earnings in the most recent quarter jumped 60 percent, as a rebound in the personal computer industry drove sales of the company’s latest Windows operating system.
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Doctors Cut Back Hours When Risk Of Malpractice Suit Rises
A new study shows that the number of hours physicians spend on the job each week is influenced by the fear of malpractice lawsuits.Economists Eric Helland and Mark Showalter found that doctors cut back their workload by almost two hours each week when …
Surgery helps chronic sinusitis sufferers get relief
Up to 76 percent of patients with chronic rhionsinusitis reported improved quality of life following endoscopic surgery. Prior to surgery, adults with chronic rhinosinusitis typically have lower quality of life scores than patients with congestive h…
New ’suicide’ molecule halts rheumatoid arthritis
Scientists have invented a novel way to halt and even reverse rheumatoid arthritis. They have developed an imitation of a suicide molecule that floats undetected into overactive immune cells responsible for the disease. Referred to as Casper the Gho…
Venus flytrap for nuclear waste: New material finds ‘needle in a haystack,’ shows promise for clean-up
Like a Venus flytrap, a new material permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not harmless sodium ions. The material can remove 100 percent of the cesium — found in nuclear waste but very difficult to clean up — fro…
Mekong Tigers Threatened
It may be the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac, but the World Wildlife Fund revealed numbers on Tuesday that the Mekong tiger population has declined by 70 percent in the last 12 years.
Vital Signs: Behavior: Too Much Sitting Shortens Lives, Study Suggests
Research in Australia showed that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 11 percent rise in mortality.