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Researchers Urge Regulators to Rethink Strategies for Soot Emission

...icroscopic particles behave in the atmosphere that raises new questions about current regulations. The research found new chemical processes that occur after soot and gaseous pollutants are emitted from cars and trucks, changing the chemical and physical properties of the soot particles and creating new ...

Mental Health Conditions Could Be Detected With Blood Tests

...ercial use is now being developed by the UI, which raises larger questions about how information revealed by such tests will be used. The issue of patient medical records and how they can potentially be used by employers, insurers, government agencies and other institutions is a concern, Philibert said. "...

Blood Tests may Be Possible for Mental Health Conditions

...ercial use is now being developed by the UI, which raises larger questions about how information revealed by such tests will be used. The issue of patient medical records and how they can potentially be used by employers, insurers, government agencies and other institutions is a concern, Philibert said. ...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

...e been recorded worldwide, its high mortality rate raises concerns that if the virus mutates to where humans can pass it on, a flu pandemic may occur. Source-Eurekalert RM...

Excessive RAMP1 Protein may Cause Migraines

...igraine headache. Russo explained that his study raises the possibility that people who have migraines may have subtle genetic differences in the RAMP1 gene that result in increased levels of RAMP1 protein. "There is clearly a genetic difference between people who get migraines and those who do not, and...

Cannibalistic Signals Help Mammalian Embryos Develop Normally

...ential for normal development,” she said. “It also raises the possibility that defects in autophagy might spur inflammation in human conditions with cell death, such as neurodegenerative diseases or chemotherapy-treatment of cancer.” <brSource-Newswise SRM...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

... humans and other vertebrates. The Stanford work raises the possibility that humans could make use of this rudimentary immune response if their higher-level system is crippled. "It's a springboard to looking at the immune system in a whole new way," said David Schneider, PhD, assistant professor of microb...

Health Expenditure on Illegal Immigrants

...e American Medical Association, is opportune as it raises concern about the escalating healthcare costs in the United States. It also speaks of the large number of people who do not have a health insurance coupled with the burning issue of illegal immigrants. States where there is a flood of illegal im...

Switching Genes to Overdrive Improves Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms in Mice

...ty of genes under its control. Exercising a muscle raises PGC-1alpha levels, causing the formation of more mitochondria, the chemical power plants that create energy in cells. PGC-1alpha is also required for the normal operation of genes that control the development of neuromuscular junctions (NMJ) – site...

British Court Allows Argument in Favour of Open-air Funerals

... newspaper. Justice Collins added: "The point it raises is of some considerable importance to the Hindu community and will not go away. It is, in any event, in the public interest that this court should decide on its potential lawfulness." The funeral of Mehat, who drowned in a canal in Southall, west L...

Controlling C Difficile in the Community Could Cut Infection Rates in Hospitals

... hospital in the previous 12 months, he adds. This raises the question of whether C difficile can still be thought of as purely a hospital acquired infection and, if not, whether other infection control measures are needed. It is important to consider whether a C difficile infection control policy solely...

New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

...ncreases// HDL-C, the 'good' cholesterol, but also raises some safety concerns, according to a study. Several different classes of drugs are used to treat lipid disorders. Fibrates reduce the liver's production of a triglyceride-carrying particle and speed up removal of triglycerides from the blood. Stat...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...are familiar with the side effects and risks. That raises health and safety issues, lawmakers and consumer groups say. The intent of the legislation is to give physicians more time to review the safety and effectiveness of new drugs before consumers have a chance to see advertisements. The changes are a...

Bush Signs Bill for Cancer Screening Program for Low-Income, Uninsured Women

...(R-N.C.) said she hopes the bill's reauthorization raises awareness of the program particularly among minorities and women living in rural communities. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation...

Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Options

... symptoms are evident," he says. "If they do, that raises the possibility of early diagnosis and preventive treatment." The idea of schizophrenia arising from white-matter defects may also help explain the timing of its emergence, Corfas notes. Recent evidence suggests that myelination of the prefrontal c...

Experts Congregate for UN Climate Summit in Bangkok

...ds nuclear energy that emits no carbon dioxide but raises other concerns, to be finalised and released Friday. The five-day meeting will be held in closed-door sessions at the UN Economic and Social Commission for the Asia-Pacific building in Bangkok. Source-IANS/V...

Gene Mutations Leave Caucasians Prone To Heart Diseases And Diabetes

...r type-2 diabetes," says Collins. While diabetes raises the risk of heart disease, the heart disease researchers made sure that the patients they scanned did not have diabetes. Collins opines that researchers will now have to look for a mechanism that explains why a single stretch of DNA could cause both ...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...n circuits (so-called axon guidance pathway). This raises speculation for another environmental influence that heretofore has been ignored: pre-birth events in the mothers womb. Study MethodsThe researchers studied the axon guidance pathway, which includes at least 128 genes that encode proteins that play...

Regular Sex Increases Longevity in Men

...ng effect on men, is being widowed at 65, for that raises the risk of dying before the age of 80 by 70 per cent. For women however, widowhood is not such a bad thing, for they are only 33 per cent more likely to die before 80 if they were widowed....

Photodynamic Therapy can Scramble the Immune System to Fight Cancer Spread

...ncer cells elsewhere in the body. Their research raises the prospect of using local PDT to treat cancer th...pe of lab work is interesting, however, because it raises the prospect of a future treatment that could be applied locally but then stimulate the bodys own de...

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