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Being Employed on the Moon can Cause Depression

...ick between June 3 and 8. One scenario, based on recent research by the Rutgers-Camden management scholar, suggests that depression experienced by one worker will spread among the rest of the employee base. While Spell's research was not conducted in an isolated environment, he notes that under such con...

Ex-IITian-designed Alzheimer's Drug's Human Clinical Trials Begin

...herapeutic intervention of the disease. His most recent work, which led to the creation of beta-secretase inhibitor CTS-21166, was published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. "The molecule is both highly potent and highly selective, meaning it does not appear to affect other enzymes important to bra...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

... a third of those were diagnosed with a problem, a recent Pentagon study found. The government plans to add 200 psychologists and social workers to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues. No one knows what the ultimate cost will be. Harvard University economist Linda Bilmes estimates t...

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...lic health threats, observers in US warn. As per a recent survey just 4 percent of U.S. adults are virgins and a fifth have tried hard drugs like cocaine and crack. What most alarms researchers is how young they start. "We have a public health problem in that we still see a lot of adults reporting thei...

China's Three Gorges Dam Changing Local Weather: Scientists

...they then compared to what has already happened in recent years. More recently, other NASA satellites have been watching the weather changes, said Wu. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) provided some data to estimate changes in rainfall, while the Terra and Aqua satellites kept track of surfac...

Madonna "hooked" to Age-defying Dead Sea Ingredient Israeli Cream

...ticism that Madonna has looked gaunt and hollow in recent weeks. According to medics the ageing process and inexorable work out sessions to keep in shape is having a bad effect on the 'American Life' singer's face....

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...es are undermining unprecedented opportunities for recent aid commitments to improve the environment and combat poverty. We live in an era of unprecedented environmental and technological flux; apocalyptic predictions of climate change-induced drought and floods, avian flu and HIV/AIDS pandemics, unsafe f...

Cost-effective Treatments for Breast Cancer

...timate of the cost-effectiveness of a therapy. A recent study showed that switching from tamoxifen to exem.../QALY gained. Based on three-year follow-up of a recent clinical trial, the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy treatment has been projected to...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...se set of health care facilities. It also was more recent than other studies, and it counted cases in which the bacterium was merely present in a patient and not necessarily causing disease. The infection control professionals' association sent surveys to its more than 11,000 members and asked them to pic...

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

... in Bordeaux, a three percent rise on 2005. And a recent study conducted for Vinexpo by the London-based In...person was 100 litres in the early 1960s, the most recent figures available show a fall to 56 litres in 2002. But French producers are doing better on the f...

Charity Slot Machines a Thing of the Past in Norway

...been such an explosion of slot machine gambling in recent years that we had to do something to curb the soci...the fact that they have reaped enormous profits in recent years, the charities have set aside part of their earnings and invested it in funds. But the PTS s...

New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective

...timate of the cost-effectiveness of a therapy. A recent study showed that switching from tamoxifen to exem... /QALY gained. Based on three-year follow-up of a recent clinical trial, the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy treatment has been projected to...

US Whizkids Create Eco-friendly Building Material from Mushroom

...ire much energy or cost to make it." The two say recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have shown it to be competitive with most insulation brands on the market. A 1-inch-thick sample of the perlite-mushroom composite had a 2.9 R-value, the measure of a substance's ability to ...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...d result in high or low MAOA enzyme activity. In a recent study, researchers found that maltreated boys who possessed the low activity MAOA-LPR variant were more likely to develop behavior problems than boys with the high activity variant. Our aim was to test whether this low activity variant influences t...

Chronic Metamphetamine Abuse is Related to Cardiovascular Disease

...the country and across different ethnic groups. In recent years, the spread of methamphetamine abuse across the United States has been as rapid as it has been alarming. According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 10.4 million Americans ages 12 or older have used met...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...tor will be 'the next big thing' -- Another more recent start-up, Heritage Health Food, delivers boxed organic food grown on 80 acres of leased land. 'Agriculture is the sector that's going to be the next big thing. It's an unorganised sector so there's a lot of opportunity,' said Indira Khosla, a co-fo...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...s many doctors per capita as the United States, in recent years it has sent as many as 15,000 to work in the...good economic sense, said Gail Reed, producer of a recent documentary on Cuban health care called "Salud!" Dr. David Hickey, a transplant surgeon at Beaumon...

West Told to Stop Blaming China for Pollution

...pants at the two-day conference were focusing on a recent study that shows China produced the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions in 2006 and has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest polluter. It was funded by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. China and other developing ...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

... breast cancer, stroke and heart disease, but more recent research suggests it may have a role to play in women's health if it is taken early and for a limited period. The study released Monday appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

US Officials Urge Testing for HIV as Health Crisis Intensifies

...ses, from Jan. 1, 1981, through Dec. 31, 2005. A recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that health care providers in South Carolina missed opportunities to diagnose people with HIV when they were seen in health care settings for other medical conditions. Fogl...

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