| Carlos '97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skilful free kick goal - from 35m with a powerful curling banana trajectory - ever scored; but by others to have been an incredible fluke. |
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| Chronic Lyme disease: How often is it diagnosed and treated? |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Some health care workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians. Others, however, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, state that there is no convincing biological evidence that chronic Lyme disease exists. |
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| Microsoft Excel-based algorithm predicts cancer prognosis |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research will enable researchers to quickly generate valuable gene signatures without specialized software or extensive bioinformatics training. |
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| Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - (AP) -- Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug. |
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| UK: New guidelines to ease sleepless nights |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released up-to-the-minute guidelines in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE, to guide psychiatrists and physicians caring for those with sleep problems. |
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| Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - (AP) -- Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago. |
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| Pivotal study finds link between PTSD and dementia |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Results of a study reported in the September issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest that Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a greater risk for dementia than Veterans without PTSD, even those who suffered traumatic injuries during combat. |
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| Apple refreshes iTunes software |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - (AP) -- Users of Apple Inc.'s iTunes software will now be able to see what songs their friends are buying and where their favorite bands are playing next. |
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| Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, research shows |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana - that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults - is overblown. |
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| New test seen as big advance in diagnosing TB |
| Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it. |
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