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Investigating Coral Reefs to Help Understand Past and Future Climate Change

...nt analogue for todays environmental changes. This period was characterised by abrupt climatic change and ra...reef drilling. To get datasets covering the entire period of the last deglaciation, it was crucial to find another technique. This became possible during a pr...

Car Airbags Most Suited To Medium-Built Individuals

...esults on an analysis of injury statistics for the period 1995-2005, from a motor vehicle crash database. The database shows that during the years studied, 52,552 drivers and 14,732 passengers were involved in crashes. Most of those people were not seriously injured, but 2.5% of the drivers and 2.6 percen...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

...th which affirms the traditional dogma of a finite period of fertility in women, said Abdul S. Rao, MD, MA, DPhil, senior associate vice president for USF Health and vice dean for research and graduate affairs at the College of Medicine. The traditional view of fertility holds that women are born with all...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...mains a distant dream . "We have learned in that period of time how formidable an adversary HIV is," says immunologist Wayne Koff, senior vice president for research and development at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Global spending for HIV vaccine research increased from $186 million ...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...shapes and patterns. The findings also support a period of rapid brain development between ages 6 and 11. ... connections in the brain change during that rapid period of development. "It's not just that the brain gets bigger," she said. "Certain structures in the ...

Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

...ring losses since its inception except for a brief period of five years from 1974-75 to 1978-79. The accumulated loss and the total liabilities of the company, as on March 31, 2004 were provisionally estimated at over Rs.28.27 billion and Rs. 27.47 billion respectively....

Thymus Transplants Give Hope to Babies With Fatal Immune Disease

... that they are nourished and supported during this period after transplant to strengthen and maintain them as their immune systems rebuild," Markert said. "We have a remarkable team that takes care of these children in tightly controlled conditions during this important early period." Typically, children ...

Babys Birth Weight and Future Risk Has No Scientific Basis

...rs believe that interventions during the pregnancy period would have little effect on increasing the size of a baby. "It has been suggested that strategies to increase early fetal growth could reduce the number of deaths from heart disease. However, interventions during pregnancy could really only increa...

Research Suggests Breast Cancer Fatigue Begins Before Chemo

... may be important to intervene during the recovery period after breast cancer surgery. Researchers say disrupted sleep, low daytime activity and reduced activity are all likely to contribute to mild fatigue before chemotherapy - and moderate to severe fatigue after chemo. That means fatigue needs to be ad...

Coenzyme Q10 Does Not Improve Parkinsons Disease Symptoms

...y of a standard formulation) over a long treatment period and in a large cohort of patients both sufficient to clearly define the protective potential of this compound in Parkinsons disease....

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

.... In a series of six operations over a year-long period that ended with removal of the last sutures on May 2 - and that rank as one of the most complicated nasal reconstructions ever performed at Johns Hopkins - facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons have pieced together more than a dozen bits of bone...

Eating Apples and Fish During Pregnancy Benefits Babies

..., and then observed their children's health over a period of five years. They found that those women who ate four or more apples a week were half as likely to have an asthmatic child compared with those who ate one or fewer. The researchers also discovered a link between eating more fish during pregnanc...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

...sk of having a heart attack or dying by 30% over a period of four to five years , according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on Monday, May 21. The more severe the sleep apnea at the beginning of the study, the greater the risk of developing heart diseas...

Figures of Dengue In Singapore On The Rise

... first trimester of this year compared to the same period in 2006. Dengue cases reported from the start of ...o 1,488, an increase from 993 in the corresponding period last year, the Health Ministry of Singapore was quoted. Experts cite this figure as an all time hi...

Drug Treatment Slows Decline in Lung Function in COPD Patients

...terol alone, or fluticasone propionate alone for a period of three years. In February 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from the TORCH study that found that the reduction in death rates for patients taking the combination treatment was not significantly different from those in th...

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...ngs the milk to a higher temperature for a shorter period of time, a method known to better protect the anti-infective and nutritional properties of breast milk than the one typically used in human milk banks. Moreover, the low-tech materials used for this study are readily available in local communities...

Rise in Cigarette Use may Elucidate Asthma Epidemic in Children

... the rise in asthma among children during the same period through increased exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, said Dr. Goodwin. More or less 4.8 million children under age 18 have asthma in the United States. Even though treatment and asthma management strategies can help control symptoms, asthma, ...

FDA Approves Birth Control Pill for Continuous Use

... The pill prevents conception by halting menstrual period indefinitely. The first ever contraception pill to put off periods altogether when taken without a break, Lybrel was approved by the FDA Tuesday. Standard birth control pills have a 21-days on, and a 7-days off regimen that are placebos or pill-fr...

Compound Present in Plant may Help to Curb Craving for Cannabis

...ing into their body. It was observed that over a period of three weeks, the rats learnt how to enjoy the effects of synthetic THC, and frequently administered themselves the drug. But the animals who received saline solution did not press the lever often. Goldberg then injected the rats with methyllycac...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

... HIV positive. It said on its website, The window period exists very early after infection, where even curr...od. Blood collection organisations say the window period risks have been negated by modern blood tests, which can detect HIV positive donors within just ten ...

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