Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
A study conducted by Columbia Business School's Prof. Jonah Rockoff, Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, Finance and Economics, and Cecilia Speroni, a doctoral student at Teachers College, set to estimate whether subjective evaluations of teacher effectiveness have predictive power for the achievement gains made by teachers' future students. The ...
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Obese girls suffer from more severe hypertension than obese boys during their teenage years, researchers from the University of California at Merced reported in the American Physiological Society conference. Hypertension (high blood pressure) raises the risk of subsequent stroke and heart disease. Dr Rudy Ortiz PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
You may think your lack of resolve to get off the couch to exercise is because you're lazy, but McMaster University researchers have discovered it may be you are missing key genes. The researchers made their unexpected finding while working with healthy, specially-bred mice, some of which had two genes ...
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Endologix, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELGX), developer and marketer of minimally invasive treatments for aortic disorders, announced that the first U.S. commercial implant of the Company's AFX™ Endovascular AAA System was performed at Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Chicago, IL. The procedure was performed by Ross Milner, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
According to new analysis, music and instrument based therapies appear to have incredible effects on cancer patients' pain levels, mood, and certain vital signs such as blood pressure. This may lead the way to an addition to standard treatment practices and a complement to medication doses alone. Joke ...
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