Monthly Archives: April 2011

Overprescription of pain-relief drugs

By admin | Published: April 8, 2011

Increasing prescription rates of pain-relieving drugs suggest a worrying trend of drug abuse in the United States. Two reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association have shown a shift in prescriptions of opioids, while prescriptions for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have gone down. Opioids are administered for the treatment of acute pain, as [...]

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New maps of Earth’s gravity unveiled

By admin | Published: April 4, 2011

Models illustrating the most accurate measurements ever recorded of the variation in gravity across the Earth have been unveiled at an international conference at the Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany. Measurements required to construct the models were taken by the European Space Agency satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), which was launched [...]

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