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ATLANTA (AP) U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
Some numbers crunchers note that a change in how such deaths are reported […]
SEATTLE: Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables are strung across the worlds oceans, connecting continents like so many tin cans in this age of critical global communication. So the fact that about 800 more miles of fiber-optic cable will soon thread the sea floor off the coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest might not seem […]
Children with autism can be identified as early as 14 months old, the youngest age at which the disorder has been diagnosed, a study by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore suggests.
But about half the time, symptoms may not show up until months later. That suggests at least two distinct paths leading […]
Martin Nielsen loves to play golf. He manages two or three rounds a week and has a handicap of about 11.
Nielsen also loves to write and talk about golf. He composes humor columns, maintains his own website (thebogeygolfer.com) and never passes on an opportunity to tell someone about one of his rounds.
But sometimes […]
The race to decode the human genome may not be entirely over: the loser has come up with a new approach that may let him prevail in the end.
In 2003, a government-financed consortium of academic centers announced it had completed the human genome, fending off a determined challenge from the biologist J. Craig Venter. The […]
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