Dell touts luxury brand but offers few details - BusinessWeek

Computer maker Dell Inc., trailing Hewlett-Packard Co. in worldwide sales, could have used a home run at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Instead, it came to Vegas with a model and a mirage. At a news conference Friday, Dell executives ...

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Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight - Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of obese American adults outweighs the number of those who are merely overweight, according to the latest statistics from the federal government. Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that ...

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Data on more than 6,000 prisoners lost - Daily Telegraph

The information was encrypted but a password to get around the security was also attached to the device. It is the latest in a long series of data losses to hit the Government and prison and health staff are now having to trawl records to track those ...

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Joslin Receives $1 Million to Support Type 1 Diabetes Research - Newsblaze.com

Newswise - Joslin Diabetes Center today announced it has received a $1 million gift from the Thomas J. Beatson, Jr. Foundation to support type 1 diabetes research. The donation will be split evenly between the labs of Joslin researchers T. Keith ...

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Latest genetic research on ADHD - News-Medical.Net

A special issue of American Journal of Medical Genetics (AJMG): Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest progress in genetic research of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The issue covers major ...

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Ten new diabetics diagnosed daily in Northern Ireland - Belfast Telegraph

The number of people diagnosed with diabetes is growing faster than ever as new figures show there are 10 cases diagnosed in Northern Ireland every single day — double that of the previous year. Diabetes UK Northern Ireland is urging the Health ...

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Polk Official Selected for Group to Advise on Managing Health Costs - The Ledger

BARTOW | Mike Kushner, risk management director for Polk County, will be in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and Thursday to advise President-elect Barack Obama on managing health costs. Not that he expects to talk with the president-elect in person ...

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