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Difficult-to-read font reduces political polarity, study finds - 2 Nov 12
Evidence found for brain injury in diet-induced obesity - 26 Dec 11
Feeling warm makes people more likely to believe in global warming, study finds - 4 Feb 11
Genome map of legume reveals how ancient gene duplication led to plants' unique properties - 16 Nov 11
Learning to count not as easy as 1, 2, 3 - 14 Jun 11
Moving poor women to lower-poverty neighborhoods improves their health - 19 Oct 11
New research links common RNA modification to obesity - 18 Oct 11
Same rules apply to some experimental systems regardless of scale - 4 Feb 11
Words help people form mathematical concepts, study finds - 7 Feb 11
New target for HIV drugs - 22 Dec 11
No butts about it: Teens who view smoking in movies likely to use cigarettes for the first time - 22 Dec 11
First person: How we discovered fluoride riboswitches - 22 Dec 11
How bacteria fight fluoride in toothpaste and in nature - 22 Dec 11
DNA Mismatch Repair Happens Only During A Brief Window of Opportunity - 22 Dec 11
Size Matters: Measuring Brain Thickness Identifies Risk for Cognitive Decline, Penn Study Shows - 22 Dec 11
Possible cure for leukemia found by Penn State researchers - 22 Dec 11
Scientists Pioneer New Method for Watching Proteins Fold - 21 Dec 11
Supersized market economy, supersized belly: Wealthier nations have more fast food and more obesity - 21 Dec 11
Crucial advances in ’brain reading’ - 21 Dec 11
First Earth-Sized Planets Found - 20 Dec 11
Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots - 20 Dec 11
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Pre-surgery exam rates vary widely among hospitals - 20 Dec 11
Ironing Out the Details of the Earth’s Core - 20 Dec 11
Statins may reduce mortality in influenza patients, team finds - 19 Dec 11
Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of suffering - 19 Dec 11
Upper atmosphere facilitates changes that let mercury enter food chain - 19 Dec 11
Researchers Create Living ’Neon Signs’ Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria - 18 Dec 11
Timing is key in the proper wiring of the brain, Yale researchers find - 18 Dec 11
Nanotechnology feat with proteins - 16 Dec 11
Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Improves Health in Gay Men - 16 Dec 11
Cereals advertised heavily to children bought most often by ethnic minority households - 15 Dec 11
Physicists’ ’light from darkness’ breakthrough named a top 2011 discovery - 15 Dec 11
Discovery of a ‘Dark State’ Could Mean a Brighter Future for Solar Energy - 15 Dec 11
Biofuel research boosted by discovery of how cyanobacteria make energy - 15 Dec 11
Team designs a bandage that spurs, guides blood vessel growth - 15 Dec 11
U of Toronto experiment named top breakthrough of 2011 by Physics World - 15 Dec 11
Sugar maple trees and acid rain: Sierra Patterson explains the research - 14 Dec 11
Targeting protein critical to cell division stops cancer cells from proliferating and kills them - 14 Dec 11
Superior drug combo for difficult-to-control epilepsy - 14 Dec 11
Protein dynamics are helped by water, synchrotron researchers find - 14 Dec 11
Pathogen causes speck disease in tomatoes - 14 Dec 11
The "Supernova of a Generation" Shows Its Stuff - 14 Dec 11
Secrets of the "sleep hormone" - 14 Dec 11
Study of man-eating snakes: Snakes are predators on, prey of, and competitors with primates - 13 Dec 11
Increased Arm Swing Asymmetry Is Early Sign Of Parkinson's Disease - 13 Dec 11
New technique will lead to more efficient, flexible optical fibers - 13 Dec 11
High-Energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer - 13 Dec 11
Research gives insights into rare bone disorder - 12 Dec 11
Scientists identify gene that controls the spread of melanoma - 12 Dec 11
Tanning beds linked to skin cancer in young people - 12 Dec 11
 

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Pre-surgery exam rates vary widely among hospitals

20 December 2011