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Archive for February, 2012
BlueSunProperties.com Offers Panama City Beach Condo Discounts To Families Seeking Relief From Rising Gas Prices
Lumber, boats and other debris ripped from Japanese coastal towns by tsunamis last year have spread across some 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) of the northern Pacific, where they could wash ashore on the U.S. west coast as early as a year from now.
Home Energy Audit and Retrofit Program ‘Clean Energy Works Oregon’ Helps Make Historic Portland Cottage Cozy and Safe.
Portland home energy audit by Clean Energy Works Oregon contractor Hammer Hand uncovers carbon monoxide back-drafting and large insulation in 1912 home. A home performance retrofit leaves homeowner Jody Naff happy – a warmer house, lower utility bills and healthier indoor air quality. Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) February 29, 2012 Portland homeowner Jody Naff’s 1912 cottage […]
ConocoPhillips and USA Swimming Foundation Bring Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones to Houston to Kick Off Water Safety Tour, Educate Kids About Learning to Swim
To: CITY, FAMILY AND SPORTS EDITORS HOUSTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Just in time for spring break, ConocoPhillips and the USA Swimming Foundation will bring Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer, Cullen Jones, to Houston to raise awareness about the importance of learning to swim. The event, scheduled for March 7, marks the kickoff of the […]
Asteroids Smacked Moon Harder & Faster 4 Billion Years Ago
The moon, which has been pummeled by a barrage of asteroids and debris throughout its lifetime, experienced a strong uptick in the energy and speed of incoming rocks around 4 billion years ago, new research suggests. A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, […]
Alien Planets Would Likely Have Leap Years, Too
Today is a leap day, a calendar oddity that helps align our timekeeping with the orbit of the Earth around the sun. But leap day may not be restricted to the Earth — it could occur on planets around other stars as well, as long as there are beings living there to mark the days, […]
Winds Have Southwest Watching for Wildfires
The U.S. Southwest is keeping a close watch today on the strong winds blowing through the region. The weather is just right for sparking dangerous wildfires. The nation’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Okla., has issued critical fire weather alerts for many areas in the Southwest due to astrong storm system moving out of […]
‘Leap Year’ Marriage Proposals Bad for Women, Research Suggests
Leap year marriage proposals — where, by custom, women are granted the once-in-four-years privilege of proposing to their beaus — hold the promise of giving women real power in their relationships, but ultimately, they actually undermine women and reinforce long-standing stereotypes about traditional roles, a new paper concludes. And after examining a century’s worth […]
Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US
HONOLULU (AP) — Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii as soon as this winter, with other pieces reaching parts of the West Coast in 2013 and […]
Smithsonian plans festival to welcome Discovery
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution plans a four-day festival with NASA to welcome space shuttle Discovery into its collection in April. The National Air and Space Museum announced plans Tuesday for more than 25 special exhibits, programs and activities to highlight the history of the 30-year space shuttle program and the future of space […]
Scientists reconstruct long-extinct giant penguin
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It was a slender bird, with long wings and a spear-like bill to catch swift ocean prey. And scientists say the first glimpse of the extinct giant penguin species was worth the 26 million-year wait. Experts from New Zealand and the United States reconstructed a fossil skeleton of one of […]
Dainippon to buy U.S. bio-venture in cancer-drug push
The number of women dying from breast cancer in the European Union is expected to drop by nine percent this year thanks to advances in treatments, researchers said on Wednesday.
Clocks in Bacteria II: Adaptive Function of Clocks in Cyanobacteria
This is the second post in a series of five, originally published on April 05, 2006: In the previous two posts, here and here, I have mentioned how the discovery of circadian clocks in Cyanobacteria changed the way we think about the origin and evolution of circadian clocks. Quite soon after the initial discovery, the […]
Venezuela says "ignore rumors" in Chavez cancer saga
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s government urged Venezuelans on Wednesday to ignore rumors the socialist leader’s health may be worse than the official version that he is in good condition after surgery in Cuba. Despite allies’ upbeat assessment of his latest operation, some sources including a prominent pro-opposition Venezuelan journalist are suggesting the 57-year-old […]
HPV Vaccine for Boys Is Important Step for Health of Future Generations
COMMENTARY | On Feb. 27, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement supporting the inclusion of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine in the standard preventative care plan for children of both sexes. Although the HPV vaccine has been used for nearly a decade in girls, major medical establishments are only just beginning to […]
Dozens charged in U.S. auto insurance fraud
(Reuters) – Federal authorities unveiled charges on Wednesday against three dozen people suspected of involvement in a scheme to defraud automobile insurers that provide healthcare benefits to accident victims out of more than $275 million. The charges include conspiracies to commit racketeering, healthcare fraud and money laundering over a scheme dating back to at least […]
China to promote condoms to cap HIV/AIDS cases
BEIJING (Reuters) – China hopes to cap the number of people living with HIV/AIDS at 1.2 million by 2015, up from around 780,000 at present, partly by promoting increased condom use, the government said in an action plan released on Wednesday. While praising achievements made over the past few years, including improved life expectancy for […]
First-Ever Quadruple Limb Transplant Fails
In 1998, 12-year-old Sevket Cavdar lost his arms and legs to electrocution. This week, Cavdar, now 27 years old, briefly experienced a sensation he hadn’t felt in a decade and a half — the feeling of having limbs. A team of 52 doctors worked for 20 hours to attach arms and legs to Cavdar’s body, […]
Health Tip: Help Prevent Eye Problems
The number of women dying from breast cancer in the European Union is expected to drop by nine percent this year thanks to advances in treatments, researchers said on Wednesday.
Efforts to Improve Research on Kids’ Drugs Paying Off: Report
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 29 (HealthDay News) — Federal laws requiring medical companies to conduct pediatric drug studies have helped provide guidance on whether it’s safe or effective for children to use certain medications, a new U.S. report finds. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report noted, however, that there’s still not enough data on the use of […]
Health Highlights: Feb. 29, 2012
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Feds Uncover Record-Breaking Medicare Scam A Texas doctor allegedly recruited homeless people as fake patients in a wide-ranging, $375 million Medicare home health-care scam, the largest ever uncovered, investigators say. Dr. Jacques Roy, 54, was arrested Wednesday and […]
Could a Statin Lower Your Risk for Depression?
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 29 (HealthDay News) — Patients who have heart disease and take cholesterol-lowering medicines known as statins are less likely to develop depression than those not on such drugs, a new study suggests. For the study, Dr. Mary Whooley of the San Francisco VA Medical Center and colleagues evaluated 965 heart disease patients for […]