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Shifting blame is socially contagious

November 19, 2009

Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem -- even when the target is innocent -- greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu, according to new research from the USC Marshall School of Business and Stanford University.

Drug therapy more cost-effective than angioplasty for diabetic patients with heart disease

November 17, 2009

STANFORD, Calif. -- Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Mark Hlatky, MD.

MIT scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

November 15, 2009

Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years.

Fertility procedures need not delay breast cancer treatment for younger women

November 12, 2009

CHICAGO (November 12, 2009) -- A new study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that breast cancer patients under 40 years old who underg

Mouse gene suppresses Alzheimer's plaques and tangles

November 11, 2009

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and colleagues have identified a novel mouse gene (Rps23r1) that reduces the accumulation of two toxic proteins that are major play

Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought: Stanford study

November 11, 2009

The scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 billion-y

Men leave: Separation and divorce far more common when the wife is the patient

November 10, 2009

SEATTLE -- A woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the patient, according to a stud

Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific, say Stanford researchers

November 3, 2009

The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pa

High-precision measurements confirm cosmologists' standard view of the universe

November 2, 2009

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, joint

Fermi telescope caps its first year with a glimpse of space-time

October 28, 2009

During its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma
Ray Space Telescope mapped the extreme sky with unprecedented
resolution and sensitivity.

Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

October 28, 2009

Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another.

Treating ROP in tiny preemies; better glaucoma follow-up in urban clinic

October 25, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO -- Highlights of today's Scientific Program of the 2009 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) - Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) Joint Meeting include: John T.

Stanford study identifies cellular mechanism that causes lupuslike symptoms in mice

October 18, 2009

STANFORD, Calif. -- Macrophages, the scavenger cells of the body's immune system, are responsible for disposing of dying cells. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified one pathway in this important process in mice that, if disrupted, causes a lupuslike autoimmune disease.



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