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The power of placebosMontreal, Canada (SPX) May 16, 2011 They may be uncomfortable talking about it, but it's definitely going on. A recent survey, led by McGill Psychiatry Professor and Senior Lady Davis Institute Researcher Amir Raz, reports that one in five respondents - physicians and psychiatrists in Canadian medical schools - have administered or prescribed a placebo. Moreover, an even higher proportion of psychiatrists (more than 35 per cent) reported prescribing subtherapeutic doses of medication (that is, doses that are below, sometimes conside ... read more |
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  Japan nuclear plant worker dies A worker died at Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant Saturday as emergency crews continued their operations to prevent a major meltdown, the plant's operator said. ... more | .. |
  Human lung stem cell discovered For the first time, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple biological structur ... more | .. |
 Sugar boosters could lead to cheap, effective treatments for chronic bacterial infections James Collins, a pioneering researcher in the new field of systems biology and a MacArthur Genius, says: "You know the old saying: 'a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down?' This is more like ... more | .. |
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  Darkness Stifles Reproduction of Surface-Dwelling Fish Fish accustomed to living near the light of the water's surface become proverbial "fish out of water" when they move to dark environments like those found in caves, according to a study from North C ... more | .. |
  Asia's suffering bears exploited for bile A frenzied black bear growls and shakes the bars of a cage barely bigger than itself. Like thousands of others across Asia, it is waiting for its owner to extract bile, a treasured substance in traditional Chinese medicine. ... more | .. |
  Bombs kill two north of Baghdad: officials Two bombs exploded as a police patrol passed through the centre of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, killing two policemen, police and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
  Four injured in iPad fight at Beijing Apple store Four people were taken to hospital and a glass door smashed as a near-riot broke out at Beijing's top Apple store among crowds rushing to snap up the popular iPad 2 tablet computer, state press said Sunday. ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
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 Rare-disorder baby has 7-organ transplant A 19-month-old San Antonio girl with an often-fatal disorder keeping her from eating is ready to go home after having a seven-organ transplant, a doctor said. ... more | .. |
Iraq suicide car bomb kills 21: hospital chief A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a police station in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 21 policemen on Thursday, the chief of the city's hospital said. ... more | .. |
  Rice University parlays sun's saving grace into autoclave Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries. Th ... more | .. |
  Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically No wonder it is called Red River: it looks like it could be on the red planet rather than in Spain. The landscape and terrain make it a perfect place for simulating a Mars sortie. An ESA rover ... more |
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  Battery can help brain deal with pain Italian scientists say they've created a battery for stimulating the brain to treat problems such as chronic pain, the aftereffects of strokes and depression. ... more | .. |
  Homelessness haunts US tornado victims James Robinson lost his house in the tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa, Alabama six days ago and on Tuesday he leaves hospital with his legs and face in bandages, not knowing where he's going to live. ... more | .. |
 Second woman exposed to radiation at Japan plant A second female worker has been exposed to radiation exceeding the legal limit at a nuclear power plant crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan, its operator said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Inverting a standard experiment sometimes produces different results Nanoparticles will soon be used as tiny shuttles to deliver genes to cells and drugs to tumors in a more targeted way than was possible in the past. But as the scientists prepare to use the nanopart ... more |
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First wildfire images reveal FireSat's unmatched detection capabilities
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
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  Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have evolved a unique chemical mechanism For the first time, scientists have been able to paint a detailed chemical picture of how a particular strain of bacteria has evolved to become resistant to antibiotics. The research is a key step t ... more | .. |
Lima to declare itself a GMO-free zone The city of Lima plans to declare the Peruvian capital a "GMO-free zone" after a controversial government decree that critics fear will see the country flooded with genetically modified organisms. ... more | .. |
  Death toll in Beijing fire rises to 18: state media The death toll from a fire that swept through an illegally constructed Beijing building this week rose to 18 when one of the two dozen people injured died, state media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
  New nanobead approach could revolutionize sensor technology Researchers at Oregon State University have found a way to use magnetic "nanobeads" to help detect chemical and biological agents, with possible applications in everything from bioterrorism to medic ... more |
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  Forgotten victims of Pakistan's Taliban war Shadi Khan was once a proud soldier fighting the Taliban, but today he quivers in pain, socks bagged around metal pins after a bomb blew off his legs on Pakistan's deadliest battlefield. ... more | .. |
 Rising food costs could fuel Asian poverty Soaring food prices threaten to push millions of people in developing areas of Asia into extreme poverty, a report from the Asian Development Bank warned. ... more | .. |
Iraqi Kurd demo fatalities rises to 10 A 28-year-old Kurdish protester died of gunshot wounds on Saturday, becoming the tenth person killed in more than two months of rallies in Iraq's northern autonomous region, a doctor said. ... more | .. |
Jobs hopes to return 'as soon as he can': Cook Apple's ailing chief executive Steve Jobs remains involved in major strategic decisions at the company and hopes to return to work full-time as soon as he can, a top Apple executive said on Wednesday. ... more |
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Trump administration expected to say greenhouse gases aren't harmful
MicroCarb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
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 Sandia And UNM Lead Effort To Destroy Cancers Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy that use ... more | .. |
Second day of violent protests over India atomic plant Mobs attacked a hospital and blocked a highway in western India on Tuesday in a second day of violent protests against a planned nuclear power plant, after a protester was shot dead a day earlier. ... more | .. |
 31 hurt in Iraq clashes with protesters Thirty-one people were injured, seven of them by live bullets, as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Sunday, a medical official said. ... more | .. |
 Trauma and controversy: Chernobyl's health legacy Every year, Volodymyr Palkin spends at least two months in a Kiev hospital. He was one of hundreds of thousands of rescue workers sent to fight the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and says his health has been permanently ruined by his work. ... more |
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 Four dead in Taliban suicide bomb at Afghan army base A suicide bombing at the Afghan army headquarters in the country's east killed four people and wounded eight on Saturday, officials told AFP, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. ... more | .. | .. | .. |
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