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Syphilis on the Rise in China

...ryone. Brothels were abolished. Frequent screening drives and treatment were rendered to the affected people. Various factors have been attributed to the current condition. Change in life style pattern, increase of brothels, expensive and mediocre health care facilities are some of the reasons cited by re...

Activation of a Particular Brain Region Predicts Altruism: Study

...his brain region may not necessarily identify what drives people like Mother Theresa, it may give clues to the origins of important social behaviors like altruism," said study investigator Scott A. Huettel, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. The work was funded by the Natio...

'Families' - Doesn’t Cause Anorexia Nervos

...umber of levels. By contributing to the stigma, it drives sufferers underground and creates obstacles to seeking help. It damages attempts at advocacy and hurts parents who are desperately fighting for their child's recovery," said Allan S. Kaplan, M.D., Loretta Anne Rogers Chair in Eating Disorders at the ...

How Bacteria Generate Energy to Live?

...in the enzyme that carry the electric current that drives the ion pump. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined genetic methods — to modify the enzyme structure — with an analytical technique known as Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, which observes electron spin, she and her co-worker...

“Bridge” Protein Spurs Deadliest Stages of Breast Cancr

.... While scientists have known that the Neu pathway drives cancer development and metastasis (and can be treated with the drug Herceptin with a certain degree of success), the molecular mechanisms that lead to breast cancer development and metastasis are not fully understood. Feng worked with mice a specia...

Can Giving More Homework Improve Test Scores For Children?

...ad author of the study. "More standardized testing drives educators to give more homework in order to prepare for these exams. Homework has moved to center stage in the debate over how nations can improve their economic competitiveness by boosting student scores. Yet, national policies aimed at simply incre...

Japanese Turn to China for Organ Transplants

...he US and Southeast Asia. The shortage of donors drives patients to other destinations, including the US and Southeast Asia even though the cost comes out of their own pockets for surgeries that health insurance would pay for in Japan. The number of Japanese undergoing liver and kidney transplants in Ch...

Head Injury Awareness Day

... damage to brain in a crash. Despite awareness drives by government agencies and the law enforcers in India, emphasizing the need to wear helmets while riding, the tendency among motorcycle riders to drive without helmets has persisted. In this context making helmets compulsory for two- wheel drivers i...

MRI-safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible

.../ by magnetic resonance imaging. The motor that drives the devices can be so precisely controlled by computer that movements are steadier and more precise than a human hand. "Lots of biopsies on organs such as the prostate are currently performed blind because the tumors are typically invisible to the ...

MRI Robotic Biopsies Simplified by PneuStep

...ided by magnetic resonance imaging. The motor that drives the devices can be so precisely controlled by computer that movements are steadier and more precise than a human hand. "Lots of biopsies on organs such as the prostate are currently performed blind because the tumors are typically invisible to the i...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

...his year as we have taken a series of anti-malaria drives in the state by spraying disinfectants and fumigation to kill mosquitoes," he said. Doctor's say the initial symptoms of malaria are high fever and cold, and at times loose motions and stomach pain as well. "Villagers often bring patients to hosp...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...use increase the chance of IPV, this investigation drives home the point that we must understand the contextual factors that may influence how individuals may behave when they are intoxicated," said Fals-Stewart. "Thus, if the neighborhood or community is one where violence and other socially negative behav...

New Analytical Tool to Unravel the Cause of Diabetes

...n somewhat of a mystery and may hold clues to what drives the transition. Researchers led by UW-Madison chemistry professor Martin Zanni, used a method, known as two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2-D IR for short), that takes advantage of the restless nature of molecules and atoms to break down this ...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

...n somewhat of a mystery and may hold clues to what drives the transition, says UW-Madison chemistry professor Martin Zanni, who led the new study. In trying to understand diabetes, 'people have been looking at the fibers, but they should be looking at their formation,' he says. 'Somehow that mechanism is...

Targeting Sugar on Blood Vessels may Inhibit Cancer Growth

...asculature, in order to grow, and this vasculature drives metastasis. The research team, led by the papers principal investigator Jeffrey D. Esko, Ph.D., professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD, showed that modifying the action of heparan sulfate uniquely impacted the tumor vasculature, and in ...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

...his year as we have taken a series of anti-malaria drives in the state by spraying disinfectants and fumigation to kill mosquitoes," he said. Doctor's say the initial symptoms of malaria are high fever and cold, and at times loose motions and stomach pain as well. "Villagers often bring patients to hosp...

Virus Claims Harry Potter is Dead!

...- known as Hairy-A - works by infecting USB memory drives plugged into computers where users have unwittingly downloaded the worm. This allows it to hop between different computers each time the device is inserted. Its other effects are creating a host of new users on the PC using character names from the...

South Asians Seek Bone Marrow for Young Indian American

... The community has also held over 70 bone marrow drives in over 10 states across the US, and have 70 more drives planned in the next three weeks. They have registered over 5000 people to become donors. "Vinay is...

New Technique to Measure Xanthone in Mangosteen

...ms of xanthone content, said Walker. Whole fruit drives absorption A pre-clinical, preliminary 28-day study of XanGo Juice by Charles River Laboratories Montreal identified the bioavailability of xanthones to determine how many xanthones are actually absorbed and the pathway they travel. Study director ...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

...he NIHE project is one of Vietnam's three research drives for a bird flu vaccine, along with work at the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City and at the national vaccine producer IVAC in Nha Trang. In April the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, India and Mexico woul...

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