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Standing wheelchair fit for the operating room
WGN NewsA standing wheelchair. It's not the first of its kind, but it will go where no others have. It's a project five University of Wisconsin at Madison students embraced -- more than a thousand hours in the making and a chance to change the life of a surgeon...Tags: Technology, Skype, Orthopedic Surgery, Teaching and Learning, Health
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USDA gleans public's input
Multimedia ProducerThe United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service of the University of Wisconsin had a carrot test trial Tuesday at the University of California Desert Research & Extension Center near Holtville. The event was open to...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cheese Corn, Agricultural Research and Technology, Carrots, Colleges and Universities
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Sage duo makes history
CORONA DEL MAR — Everyone else had gone home, but Alex Manolakas and Eric Magliarditi were still on the court at Corona del Mar High. As 4 p.m. neared, the Sage Hill School doubles team was entering the seventh hour of its workday at the CIF...Tags: Sage, Tennis, California Interscholastic Federation
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Edwin Roger Fitzgerald, Hopkins professor
Edwin Roger Fitzgerald, a retired professor had taught in the Johns Hopkins University's mechanics and materials department for nearly 40 years and whose hobby was farming, died May 11 of complications from a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The...Tags: Peabody Conservatory, The Pennsylvania State University, Teaching and Learning, Johns Hopkins University, Electronics
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First of 2 papers on lab-made bird flu published
NEW YORK (AP) — Four months ago the U.S. government sought to block publication of two studies about how scientists created an easily spread form of bird flu. Now a revised version of one paper is seeing the light of day with the government's...
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Research, University of Pittsburgh, Flu, Bird Flu
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Health issues vary in low-income Imperial County
Staff WriterIn Imperial Valley two in every five people are obese, nearly 13,000 people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 163 children were hospitalized in 2010 due to asthma. The Valley leads the state with these factors, having the highest rates of diabetes,...Tags: Lungs and Airways, Physical Fitness and Exercise, American Heart Association, Health, Health and Safety at School
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Defining where words come from
When your former governor and your favorite Sudanese embassy-protesting movie star head to the clink the same week, it's time to rethink how you talk about prison.
Starting with the word "prison." Boring! And really, clink? We can do better than that....Tags: Harvard University, Prisons, Education, Colleges and Universities
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Newspaper finds suspicious test scores nationwide
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The newspaper examined test results for 70,000...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Teaching and Learning, Health, Examinations, Newspaper and Magazine
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Panel backs sharing studies of lab-made bird flu
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. biosecurity panel said Friday that it supports publishing two revised studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu in the lab. The committee, meeting in Washington, said the updated versions do not...
Tags: Bird Flu, Science, Science and Technology
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
PA County Health Rankings Michelle Larkin, a representative of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Pat Remington, the associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, talk about the newly-released...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Sleuth (tv network), American Heart Association
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Carroll County ranks as fifth 'healthiest' place in Maryland
Carroll County was named as the fifth healthiest place to live in Maryland by a national research group analysis. The report, released April 3, comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The...Tags: Diabetes, Health and Safety at School, Health, Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Queen Anne (Prince George's, Maryland)
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BizTech Business Briefs for April 10
Robbins joins salon Allison Robbins has joined Still Cuttin’ Up salon, located at 365 S. Fourth St. Robbins does cuts, colors and waxes. She attended Durham’s beauty school. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and...
Tags: Banking, Insurance, United Way , Eastern Kentucky University, Colleges and Universities
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