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Study finds delay in follow-up among African-American women receiving abnormal breast finding.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/15/2009; 1157 words; ...related care. In the United States, and particularly South Carolina, African-American women suffer disproportionately higher...further, Swann Arp Adams, MS, PhD, of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and her colleagues studied medical data from...

Study shows how carbon nanotubes can affect lining of the lungs.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/15/2009; 832 words; ...other health problems. Now a collaborative study from North Carolina State University, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences...Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Nanotube, Sports, Toxicology, North Carolina State University. This article was prepared by NewsRx Health...

Nitrogen mysteries in urban grasslands.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/15/2009; 1086 words; ...Ecosystem Studies (Peter Groffman), the U.S. Forest Service (Richard Pouyat, Ian Yesilonis) and the University of North Carolina (Lawrence Band) established a series of long-term study plots to evaluate multiple ecological variables in different components...

Halloween sex offender policies questioned.
NewsRx Science; 11/15/2009; 820 words; ...University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; Jill Levenson, Lynn University; Elizabeth Letourneau, Medical University of South Carolina Family Services Research Center; and Paul Stern, Snohomish County Prosecutors Office. It is available free of charge for...

Researchers make key step towards turning methane gas into liquid fuel.
NewsRx Science; 11/15/2009; 839 words; Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel...