USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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Articles in Oct 2007 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• In its first laboratory tests on human tissue, a light-based probe built by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, N.C
• Determining when the time is right
• Will teenage girls have more sex?
• Fad treatments on the rise
• Infants with whooping cough were most likely infected by the people they live with, according to a multicountry study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Ten symptoms not to ignore
• Better to emphasize health over appearance
• Athletes collapsing from sickle cell trait
• A groundbreaking system that could deliver surgery without scars has been developed by engineers at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at the University of Texas, Arlington, in collaboration with physicians and the Texas Manufacturing Assistan
• A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City
• Ways to alleviate acute shortage of RNs
• Myths spreading like an epidemic
• Key genetic finding for autism
• Student musicians should protect hearing
• Poor employee health costs employers plenty
• Procedure among safest in U.S
• Autism programs are huge failure
• Poor teen diet can lower lung function
• Make medical and financial preparations
• Pregnancy may increase risk
• New blood tests for panic disorder
• Key tests for COPD vastly underutilized
• Success depends on spouse and workplace
• Girls surpass boys in deadly practice
• Multiple sclerosis
• Faulty membrane repair causes complications
• Miniature devices treat epilepsy, glaucoma
• A fish tale
• A soft margarine spread is the healthier choice in the long-debated butter-or-margarine controversy, maintains Jo Ann Carson, clinical nutritionist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
• Noninvasive approach provides better "image"
• Key milestone of the last 100 years
• People with astigmatism and cataracts may benefit from a revised Medicare rule extending coverage for the new type of implantable lenses that treats both conditions
• Pot belly is key indicator
• When will television finally get it right?
• Men age 65 and older who have smoked should have a one-time screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm, indicates cardiac surgeon Frank Arko
• The many mysteries of the human heart
• Putting bacteria on birth control