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Reviewers prefer positive findings: journals may be less likely to publish equivocal studies
VANCOUVER, Canada -- Peer reviewers for biomedical journals preferentially rate manuscripts with positive health outcomes as better, a new study...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Desperately seeking moly: unreliable supplies of feedstock for widely used medical imaging isotope prompt efforts to develop U.S. sources
Of all the radioactive isotopes used in medical diagnostics, none plays a more pivotal role than technetium-99m. Each weekday, hospitals and...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Drugged money
The smell of money might be as intoxicating as the smell of power in the nation's capital. After studying money supplies in U.S. cities and in...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Concerns over plastics chemical continue to grow: new studies of bisphenol A measure effects, exposures
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Women may want to reconsider that popular style accessory, certain hard plastic water bottles...
Science News, 07/18/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Bad breath: studies are homing in on which particles polluting the air are most sickening—and why
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tasteless. Invisible to the eye. Air contaminants less than a tenth the...
Science News, 07/18/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Diagnosis: Mercury Money, Politics & Poison
Diagnosis: Mercury Money, Politics & Poison Diagnosis: Mercury Money, Politics & Poison Jane M. Hightower [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is a...
Science News, 06/06/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Research agencies would get boost from president's proposed budget: most increases rely on already approved stimulus money
The Obama administration rolled out new details on May 7 about its blueprint for federal spending for fiscal year 2010. And no matter how you cut...
Science News, 06/06/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
School-age lead exposures may do more harm than earlier exposures: levels in 6-year-olds tied to IQ, tissue loss, future criminality
Testing for lead only in infants and toddlers may be a mistake, a new study suggests. Pediatricians routinely test very young children at ages when...
Science News, 06/06/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
New eyes on the cosmos: the next constellation of telescopes will dramatically extend and sharpen scientists' view of the universe
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Galileo began pointing spyglasses toward the heavens--scanning methodically, classifying...
Science News, 05/23/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication -
Contraceptives and muscle gains
NEW ORLEANS -- Some female athletes may pay a price for using oral contraception: lower strength gains from resistance exercises, which include...
Science News, 05/23/09 by Janet Raloff · More from publication
