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MOSAID Showcases Solid State Drive Prototype

HLNAND(TM) SSD achieves unprecedented per-channel Flash performance

Quality coronary bypass care can improve lives and cut costs

A new analysis led by researchers at UCSF shows that avoiding lowest-volume hospitals and maximizing adherence to quality care processes are both effective approaches to reducing costs associated with coronary bypass surgery.

Just drop it: The one-size-fits-all approach to blood sugar control, that is

Aggressive blood sugar control does not improve survival in diabetic patients with kidney failure, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that physicians should individualize blood sugar targets for these patients and not rely on recommendations based on studies in the general population.

Kidney injury prevention may be possible: Watch for the warning signs

Reduced kidney function and protein in the urine place a person at risk for kidney injury, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The results suggest that improved recognition of these warning signs could help reduce preventable forms of acute kidney injury (AKI).

Graphene exhibits bizarre new behavior well suited to electronic devices

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have found that when graphene is stretched in a specific way it sprouts nanobubbles in which electrons behave in a bizarre way, as if they are moving in a strong magnetic field.

UCLA scientists for the first time identify a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer

UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostics tools and the development of new and more effective targeted treatments for the disease.

New lab test could identify imatinib resistance

Results are published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Brain potentials reveal spectator effect

The neurological responses caused by observing somebody else playing a game have been uncovered. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience found differing responses for neutral observers, compared to those who wished the player to fail and those who wanted to see the player succeed.

Calcium supplements linked to increased risk of heart attack

Calcium supplements, commonly taken by older people for osteoporosis, are associated with an increased risk of a heart attack, finds a study published on bmj.com today.

KnowledgeAdvisors Investigates Importance of Informal Learning in Organizations

In the paper, authored by Jeffrey Berk (Chief Operating Officer at KnowledgeAdvisors), informal learning is acknowledged to have numerous definitions such as unintentional or unstructured learning. However, in the paper, informal learning is simply and best defined as knowledge transfer that occurs without the assistance of a structured curriculum.

97 Pound Woman Attempts Guinness World Records (Set by Men) to Lift Over 90,000 Pounds in 1 Hour!

Athletes who heard of this news said "it is just impossible for a 5 feet tall female, weighing nearly 97 pounds, to break this world record!" This event will be streaming live FREE over the Internet for those curious to see if Thienna can dead lift and shatter the world record!

New Book Helps Small Businesses Save Themselves and Help Save America

Camp believes that becoming "Lean" is the single most important thing a company - any company - can do to compete in both a national and world markets. As the book goes to press Robert B. Camp is a "Lean" coach for a hospital in the process of "going Lean."

A breakthrough in tuberculosis research

This release is available in French.

ContinuLink Health Technologies, a Leader in Web-based Home Care Software Responds to Regulatory Change with Rapid Fire Solution

CMS established Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) as an alternative to the paper (CMS-855) enrollment process. Internet-based PECOS allows physicians, non-physician practitioners and provider and supplier organizations to enroll, make a change in their Medicare enrollment, view their Medicare enrollment information on file with Medicare, or check on status of a Medicare enrollment application via the Internet. The machine readable file for this initiative was released by CMS on Thursday June 24th.

Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling in some areas

The researchers used for this study wood samples from a total of 69 Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) from the Khibiny Mountains on the Kola Peninsula, situated between the Arctic Circle and the ocean port of Murmansk, not far from the Finnish border. The investigated region is a transition zone between Scandinavia, which is strongly affected by the gulf stream resp. North Atlantic Current, and the continental regions Eurasia. This makes the region particularly interesting for climatological studies.

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