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| Leading insurer pays $109M for dog bite claims |
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Date: 17-05-2012
Dog bites man does not get a lot of attention in the news, but it costs insurance companies hundreds of millions in claims every year.
State Farm Insurance, one of the nation's largest home insurers, paid more than $109 million on about 3,800 dog bite claims nationwide last year, spokesman Eddie Martinez said Wednesday. In 2010, there were about 3,500 claims and $90 million in payouts.
The Insurance Information Institute estimated that nearly $479 million in dog bite claims were paid by all insurance companies in 2011, spokeswoman Loretta Worters said. In 2010, it was $413 million.
It's no surprise that California -- home to more dogs and people than any other state -- led the way in 2011.
Martinez says 527 claims were filed in California and victims received $20.3 million, a jump of 31 percent over 2010.
State Farm is still working to determine reasons for the spike, Martinez said.
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| Early Signs of Parkinson's Might Be Seen in Colon |
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Date: 16-05-2012
A colonoscopy or similar test could one day diagnose Parkinson's disease years before symptoms occur. That's because signs of Parkinson's that appear in the brain also show up in the colon, a new study says.
Researchers examined tissue samples obtained during colon exams of people who later developed Parkinson's disease. The samples were taken several years before the patients showed symptoms of the neurological disorder.
The cells in the patients' intestinal walls were found to contain clumps of alpha-synuclein -- a hallmark protein of Parkinson's.
In a previous study, these researchers found these aggregates were apparently unique to the gut of Parkinson's disease patients -- they were not seen in people with certain gut disorders or in healthy people.
The findings suggest that tissue obtained during a colonoscopy or other colon cancer screening test could one day be used to predict who will develop Parkinson's, said study researcher Dr. Kathleen Shannon, a neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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| With Weights, You Can Lighten Your Load |
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Date: 14-05-2012
Doing more repetitions with less weight builds muscle and increases strength just as effectively as training with heavy weights, a new Canadian study indicates.
The critical factor in muscle gain is pushing yourself to the point of fatigue, according to the researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
They examined how different combinations of weight loads and repetitions affected the leg muscles of young men. The participants trained three times a week for 10 weeks doing one of three resistance training regimens: one set at 80 percent of maximum load; three sets at 80 percent of maximum load; or three sets at 30 percent of maximum load.
A set consisted of doing as many repetitions as possible with the assigned loads -- typically eight to 12 times a set at the heaviest weights and 25 to 30 times a set at the lowest weights.
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| Mark Zuckerberg should wear The Real South attire to Wall Street meetings. |
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Date: 10-05-2012
He has gone through so much: There was the fall of Lehman Brothers and all those books and HBO movies that put his greed (isn't greed good?) in not so favorable a light; his impetuous behavior has been blamed for the financial crisis; President Obama has said mean things about him, and, worst of all, he has been forced to listen to the drum circles of Occupy Wall Street.
Now an arrogant young man comes pitching his company's initial public offering. Instead of paying homage to the rightly masters of the universe, he shows up in a hoodie, takes private meetings instead of pimping himself on a stage, and does little to conceal the notion that he'd rather be back in his Silicon Valley office working with engineers and doing the things that he's good at.
I say, good for Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Eating More Foods Rich in Omega-3s May Lower Alzheimer's Risk |
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Date: 06-05-2012
Consuming foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids may guard against Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.
The finding stems from work conducted among roughly 1,200 dementia-free patients over the age of 65. All underwent blood tests to assess levels of a key Alzheimer's-associated protein after providing the study authors with a dietary breakdown dating back more than a year.
"Past research has shown that, in this population, higher levels of the beta amyloid protein appear related to a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease," said study author Yian Gu, an associate research scientist with the Taub Institute for Research in Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University in New York City. "So we wanted to try and figure out if what we eat can affect these levels."
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| Super-Sized Moon Takes Over Saturday Sky |
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Date: 04-05-2012
For those who howl at a full moon, start exercising those vocal chords because Saturday's full moon will be super-sized.
It is going to be a very bright, very big looking moon. It is worth people going outside and see the difference (between a typical full moon,) says Karl von Ahnen, technical director at Fujitsu Planetarium at De Anza College.
Moonrise in Cupertino is expected at 8 p.m., and moonset at 5:35 a.m. Sunday.
Von Ahnen says it will appear about 15 percent brighter than a typical full moon and will appear larger looking.
It is special, astronomically.
The super moon is due to a combination of the moons elliptical orbit around Earth and the time at which it is at its closest point to us--called perigee--occurring at the same time as the full moon cycle. Typically the two occur a day or so apart, but this one is happening at the same time.
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| Harvard and MIT to offer online courses. A step in lowering college costs? |
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Date: 03-05-2012
Two of America's most prestigious universities are uniting around a seemingly controversial idea: that online education is an opportunity and not a threat for residential colleges.
On Wednesday, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, Mass., announced that they're forming a new organization called edX to deliver online courses to learners around the world. Each school said it will invest $30 million in launching the project.
The idea is that this new investment will complement, rather than compete with, their residential learning programs.
Yet the move comes amid a wave of experimentation and angst in the world of education.
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| As America's waistline expands, costs soar |
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Date: 30-04-2012
U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing them with floor models to better support obese patients. The Federal Transit Administration wants buses to be tested for the impact of heavier riders on steering and braking. Cars are burning nearly a billion gallons of gasoline more a year than if passengers weighed what they did in 1960.
The nation's rising rate of obesity has been well-chronicled. But businesses, governments and individuals are only now coming to grips with the costs of those extra pounds, many of which are even greater than believed only a few years ago: The additional medical spending due to obesity is double previous estimates and exceeds even those of smoking, a new study shows.
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