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Knocked-out Tooth

19. October 2006

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If one of your teeth is knocked out of its socket but not broken, it’s often possible for dentist or doctor to reimplant it if you act quickly. A healthy tooth root is held in its socket by ligament tissue. Some of this tissue remains on the root of a tooth that has been knocked out. [...]

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Gas Pain

18. October 2006

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Objective measurements of abdominal gas volume indicate that patients who complain of bloating and cramps because of “too much gas” are actually suffering from a condition in which a normal amount of intestinal gas has a tendency to move too slowly and reflux back into the stomach. Challenging the accepted notion that excessive gas is [...]

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No More ATVs For Children

17. October 2006

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Neurosurgeons at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are renewing calls for a ban on use of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) by children under age 16 after a 10-year review of injuries caused by the vehicles. “Children have no experience or training in driving motorized vehicles, and they’re driving them [...]

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Is There Life After Wikipedia?

16. October 2006

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Pondering where surfers go after Wikipedia is interesting enough, but what was more interesting was the cyclical pattern of behavior among them that begins with Google and ends with Google or Google-related services (just to generalize - you could say search - Wikipedia - search - blog - social networking). Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins notes that there is increasing interest in the [...]

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Google, YouTube Face Potential Opposition

14. October 2006

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Dick Parsons, Time Warner CEO & Chairman, revealed in a British newspaper that the company will continue to pursue copyright infringement complaints against YouTube. This is the first potential pitfall for Google, who acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion on Monday. Time Warner appears poised to offer Google its first real test in the copyright infringement arena [...]

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