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Bitter Pill: Thrills That Kill

...ip and happening' and be the life of every party, drives many to seek instant thrills. Before realization dawns, drugs begin to call the shots and many lives dissolve into oblivion. It is apt to recall a pithy quote from David Ryan that hits the nail on the head: “You do anything long enough to escape the ...

Imaging study affords renewed thrust on smoking cessation treatments

...ost completely saturated throughout the day, which drives the almost uncontrollable urge to keep smoking," says Dr. Volkow. "A more complete understanding of how nicotine affects the brain can help us develop better therapies for people looking to quit. In addition, since even low levels of nicotine exposur...

Safe Sex and Good Sex is the Talk of AIDS Conference

...ng safer sex. It will become like the anti-smoking drives which everyone ignores," Yvonne Green, an AIDS activist from South Africa says. "We must be able to talk about sexual pleasure in public. Without it the international HIV/AIDS response is losing a very powerful tool to stem the spread of the diseas...

Obesity on the high

...nd walking. The average American commutes to work, drives to the supermarket and does as little walking as possible."...

Voices of HIV-positive missing at AIDS conference

...ation agency Panos said Thursday. "They know what drives this epidemic intimately, and are already finding innovative responses. Why are we not listening?" Of course people living with HIV/AIDS were present in large numbers at the conference, but their forum for free expression was in spaces away from the...

Hunger Mapping

...istributed "code" that governs the motivation that drives organisms to satisfy their hunger. In their paper, Ivan de Araujo and colleagues implanted bundles of infinitesimal recording electrodes in areas of rat brain known to be involved in feeding, motivation, and behavior. Those areas include the later...

Processed foods – "the" cause of obesity!

...o exercise and the more you want to eat. This only drives more food intake, which drives your insulin even higher, which interferes with your leptin even more, which makes you think you're ...

Researcher Hits Bulls-Eye for Antibiotic Target

.... "Fundamental basic research is the engine that drives the development of technology such as antibiotics," he said. "The next step in this research will be working to develop inhibitors for this protein and studying the applications to other bacteria." (Source: Newswise)...

Fighting AIDS – a joint venture of the rich and the poor

...lock after one use was prompted by the vaccination drives in poor countries. Oil and mining companies in the West can be urged to reveal royalty and tax payments to poor governments in their financial statements. This will help in tacking corruption. In a nutshell, rich and poor countries are interdepende...

Not All ADHD Drugs Are Equal

...lator laboratory and completed 15-minute simulated drives at 5 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11p.m. Driving performance was determined by sophisticated computer algorithms. Researchers found that treatments with Concerta led to fewer inattentive driving errors and less hyperactive or impulsive driving errors, such as ...

Robot Wheelchair Maybe Helpful for Wheelchair-dependent Patients

...through the typical residential bathroom. The user drives the chair using a joystick and other simple controls. The HLPR chair's drive, steering motors, batteries and control electronics are positioned to keep its center of gravity--even when carrying a patient--within the wheelbase. This allows a person,...

Key Gene Controlling Kidney Development Found

...lly triggered by a gene called Wnt4, which usually drives the normal development of kidneys. Source-Newswise RM...

Anti Atherosclerosis Therapies Linked to Leukemia

...hronic inflammation in the blood vessel walls that drives the atherosclerotic process. Even better, blocking these enzymes seemed only to affect one type of immune cell, the macrophage, and to interfere only with its role in chronic inflammation. The acute response of the macrophages to infectious agents li...

Madhya Pradesh battles polio with yet another drive

... doses of polio vaccines - four during pulse polio drives and three as per routine immunisation. Similarly, 14-month-old Shivani of Bhind district was detected with the virus in September and seven-month-old Kapil of Chhatarpur district in June despite receiving pulse polio drops. A pulse polio campaign...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

... one another on chromosome 21. When fused, TMPRSS2 drives over-expression of the ERG gene. According to Perner, fusion can occur when the piece of DNA separating the genes breaks off and the genes merge (a process described as "fusion through deletion"), or if parts of each gene break off and switch positio...

Pair of MicroRNA Molecules Controls Major Oncogene in Most Common Leukemia

...m to suppress expression of the TCL1 oncogene that drives the most aggressive forms of the leukemia, said the study’s lead author, Yuri Pekarsky, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. “We ...

HIV Treatments Improve Health, but Nutritional Issues Remain

...ase in HDL cholesterol levels, so this may be what drives metabolic syndrome in people with HIV.” Both HAART and non-HAART users in the NFHL study had a higher incidence of low HDL than the NHANES population. However, only HAART users demonstrated high triglyceride levels, leading the researchers to concl...

Researchers Identify New Drug Targets for Cancer

... determined// that the same genetic mechanism that drives tumor growth can also act as a tumor suppressor. Their findings could lead to new drug targets for cancer therapies. In a study published in the January 1 issue of Cancer Cell, Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences and Ce...

Battle Against Polio Far from Over in Bihar

... to official records, eight rounds of immunization drives were carried out in the year gone by but results are poor. Bihar reported 30 polio cases in 2005, down from 39 in 2004. The number was only 18 in 2003, far below the 121 in 2002. Bihar has the second highest number of polio cases in India after U...

Anti-smoking Programmes Should Increase

...ning activities. Hence it is but natural that such drives are very slow. The report released during this m...taxes on cigarette, smoke free environment and the drives to control the access of nicotine products to youth. Maine got ‘A’ in all categories, 26 states o...

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