Meanwhile, a new study says American Catholics view sex abuse by clergy as the most important problem facing the church today, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
Though features like number of apps, weight, battery life and Flash compatibility tend to attract the most attention in tablet assessments, a new study says typing is actually the most common frustration among tablet users.
The blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin failed to improve a rare heart valve condition called aortic stenosis and seemed to increase rates of cancer, a new study says, dealing another blow to the top-selling drug and its makers, Merck and Schering-Plough .
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is determined to pull the plug on the dinosaur-aged Indian Point nuclear power plant located on the northern outskirts of New York City in Buchanan, NY and a new study says the sky will fall if he does.
FORBES: Indian Point Pumps Nuclear Nonsense into New York City
NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a new study that says scientists still don't know how to do it.
Antarctic ice sheets are melting now three times faster than they did in the 1990s, a new scientific study says.
Businesses should encourage employees to switch off their PCs at night, says a new study.
So, at any rate, says a new study from Jones Lang LaSalle, a global estate agency.
More companies are bringing in top bosses from outside their ranks than ever before, says a new study.
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But now a new study examining the country's obesity crisis says no amount of reform will be enough to make medicine affordable if Americans don't also reform their eating habits.
NPR: Nation's Obesity Problem Puts Strain On Health Care Costs
Walking away from a problem to do simple, routine tasks, and letting the mind wander in the process, can spark creative new connections or approaches to solving dilemmas, says a 2012 study in Psychological Science.
Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
ENGADGET: Researchers use wireless network to monitor breathing, could save lives
"Unlike the DARE trial, they made a real effort to keep the total time involved the same" in the new study, Sigal says.
D, the FDA official who first linked oral bisphosphonates to esophageal cancer in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, says that the new study alone does not put the issue to rest.
The New York-based drug giant says last night it received news that in a study, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, on using Celebrex to prevent cancerous colon polyps, the drug more than doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes. (The risk showed up with the highest dose of Celebrex.) That study, called the APC trial, has been halted.
Yes, it's true, says a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (via the New York Times): sildenafil, otherwise known as Viagra, is a bona fide cure for jet lag.
Mind-wandering, often seen as daydreaming, allows the brain to incubate new approaches to familiar problems, serving "as a foundation for creative inspiration, " says the 2012 study in Psychological Science.
"There have been a lot of studies that indicate that there are probably other mechanisms, " says the senior author of the New York City study, Robin Whyatt, DrPH, a professor of clinical environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
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