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ABC News: 5 Things to Cut Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (Science/Technology, 6 articles)
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In a set of recent focus groups, participants were asked to rank the severity of various health problems, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. WASHINGTON- A protein made in the liver may give doctors a way to predict years in advance who is at high risk for the most common form of diabetes, a U.S. study published Tuesday said. Studying people in their 70s, the researchers found those with high levels of a protein known as fetuin-A were far more likely than those with low levels to develop type 2 diabetes over six years. Fetuin-A is made by liver cells and may be involved in the metabolism of the sugar glucose as well as calcium, the researchers said. Children who are obese today are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes as young adults Dr. Joyce Lee said in a prepared statement. Ix said that interventions to fight diabetes, such as healthy diet and exercise, can be difficult to accomplish on a wide scale. Untreated, diabetes can lead to a number of complications, including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and more, according to the ADA.
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In the iPhone App Store, Developers’ Playground With Apple as Referee (Science/Technology, 16 articles)
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(Eric Risberg/Associated Press) Rogers Communications Inc. has bowed to public pressure and temporarily lowered the price of internet usage on Apple Inc.'s hotly awaited iPhone, which is being released in Canada on Friday. The company will now offer a $30-a-month plan that allows customers to use six gigabytes of internet data on the iPhone, on top of voice plans that start at $20 plus a system access fee of $6.95 a month. TOKYO- The new iPhone model went on sale in Asia Friday, making its debut in Japan after a 30-second countdown chanted by hundreds of people who waited in some cases for days in a line that snaked around the block.
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ABC News: Yes, There Is Water on the Moon (Science/Technology, 6 articles)
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A new analysis of volcanic glass recovered from the moon decades ago found the rocks contain traces of the constituents of water, challenging a long-held notion that the moon is dry. Using a technique not available when Apollo astronauts collected the rocks in the early 1970s, scientists detected telltale signs of water trapped inside the pebblelike glass. The report, in the new issue of the journal Nature, may cause scientists to rethink theories on how the moon was formed.
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Breast-Conserving Surgery Leaves Many Cancer Patients Disappointed (Science/Technology, 6 articles)
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Promoters of breast cancer research also seem happy with Defense management, which has supported the involvement of patient advocates in the selection of research projects from the outset. More women with breast cancer are choosing to have their healthy breast surgically removed along with their affected breast, a new study has found. If the figures are accurate, 8,000 to 10,000 patients a year may be electing to have the procedure, called a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy.
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Patch on way for Net security flaw (Science/Technology, 4 articles)
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Security researchers say they have discovered an enormous flaw that could let hackers steer most people using corporate computer networks to malicious Web sites of their own devising. But there are two pieces of good news: First, no bad guys are known to be capitalizing on the flaw yet. And second, in a possibly unprecedented display of industry cooperation, virtually every major software company affected is issuing patches fixing the problem.
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200 babies could hold key to early diagnostic test for autism in children (Science/Technology, 9 articles)
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A test that can identify early signs of autism among babies could emerge from a major new study of the developmental disorder that is being launched tomorrow. New findings by Harvard researchers may bring families one step closer to discovering a cure for autism, a disorder shrouded in mystery. Federal health officials on Sunday will call together some of the world's leading experts on an obscure disease to discuss the controversial case of a 9-year-old girl from Athens, Ga., who became autistic after receiving numerous vaccinations.
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