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The researchers, reporting in PLOS One, set out looking at “honorific” street names – when a street maintains its positional name, like 161st Street and River Avenue, and gains another name, Mariano Rivera Avenue, in their honor.

“As of this past April, under a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act, health care providers are required to give all their patients electronic access to most kinds of medical notes.

“To harness this untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.

About 25 years ago, I was doing radiation surveys at a NASA research site, searching for radioactivity from past research activities.

   

Dengue fever was the first disease that I was introduced to in medical school, at least during a lecture. It is also known as bone-break fever to give you just a sense of how painful an infectious disease it can be.

While initially covered by CNN, it has subsequently been covered by the print media as well, including the

The New England Journal of Medicine published a great medical image this week from our nasal friend, or at least a runny nasal friend.

“Florigen-regulating genes have been repeatedly modified by breeders in crops as diverse as tomatoes, soybeans, potatoes, beans, strawberries, barley, sugar beet, rice, and wheat.

Off-shore wind lasts longer and is stronger than on-shore, making off-shore wind farms (OWF) a source of renewable energy – except, of course, when it blocks your view, and those NIMBY (not in my backyard) types object.