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FDA Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward

...smetics and food supplements— and in calling for a wide range of FDA actions to prepare for and execute its oversight role. While available evidence does not suggest that all materials with nanoscale dimensions will be hazardous, the Task Force correctly concludes that the agency needs new safety assessme...

Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...due to media exposure, trekking guidebooks and the wide availability of the Internet. In spite of these apparent changes, it is unknown whether there is an actual increased awareness among those who actually climb to these altitudes, and if this awareness is accompanied by a decrease in the prevalence of ...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

... Brucella infections cause prolonged fever and a wide range of other possible manifestations, such as arthritis, hepatitis, and meningitis. Symptoms can be prolonged, but the disease is rarely fatal. In livestock, brucellosis causes infertility and abortions. As bioterrorism agents, Brucella strains are...

Cognitive Test Takers and Score Variation

...variability would be this large, and apparent in a wide variety of cognitive tests not simply tests of speed or alertness, says Salthouse. Psychologists frequently use tests of vocabulary, word recall, spatial relations, pattern comparison and the like to understand normal function and diagnose impairm...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...ns was very similar. Both had increased rates in a wide variety of cancers." The research analysed the results of 12 previous studies completed in Australia, the US, Europe and Canada and involving more than 444,000 people with HIV/AIDS and some 32,000 organ recipients. It found that of the 28 cancers...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...octor could successfully administer nalmefene in a wide variety of medical settings. It is an attempt to get the drug out of the sole use of addiction specialists and into the hands of primary providers, Anton said....

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...the advice given consistently by dieticians: eat a wide range of foods, because each one offers different characteristics and a particular function....

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

..., 2005].) Air pollution can trigger or worsen a wide spectrum of respiratory and cardiovascular ailments. WHO's air guidelines warn that pregnant women, the elderly, the sick, and young children are especially susceptible to suffering severe effects from high pollution levels. The total number of...

New Cancer Therapy in Clinical Trial

...ation in over 30 clinical trials for use against a wide range of human cancers, including melanoma, prostate, ovarian, pancreatic, lung cancers, and others. Like c-Myc, sorafenib appears to work through a mechanism that involves repression of TRAIL-induced expression of Mcl-1 and cIAP2. These results ...

Cane Sugar,corn Syrup Have Similar Effects on Hunger

...no-beverage control group. Lunch consisted of a wide variety of savory and sweet foods, accompanied only by plain water. Each participant went through separate tests for each type of beverage over the span of several weeks. Study participants who drank a non-caloric diet cola ate about the same amou...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

...uidelines on dispensing to children. Despite the wide availability of specialised resources, such as Medicine for Children, published by the Royal College of Paediatricians, only one respondent said they used them says Dr McLay. The situation should hopefully improve, as copies of the British National...

Soccer Players Face Groin Injuries

...occer players. The term groin injury encompasses a wide range of injuries ranging from minor groin strains to chronic groin injuries, such as sports hernias, which often require surgery. The number of groin surgeries was also evaluated. Although not statistically significant, the athletes in the prevent...

Plants Respond to Changing Environment

...nvolved in the gibberellin signalling pathway in a wide range of plants. They discovered that it was not until the flowering plants evolved 300 million years ago that plants gained the ability to repress growth in response to environmental cues. All land plants evolved from an aquatic ancestor, and i...

Natural Selection in Butterflies

...t affects the sex ratio of a population has a very wide impact on the biology of the species. It is not yet clear whether the suppressor gene emerged from a chance mutation from within the local population, or if it was introduced by migratory Southeast Asian butterflies in which the mutation had alread...

Ujjain Ashram Adopts Eco-friendly Burial Process

...me of cremation, a pit of six feet long and 3 feet wide is dug. After laying the dead body, the pit is covered with mud. After five or six months, sapling of a tree is planted - which once grown up benefits us with its fruits and oxygen." The unusual methodology of burial is said to be based on the theo...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

...ectious disease agents, strep is responsible for a wide range of diseases, ranging from simple throat and skin infections to life-threatening invasive conditions such as necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) and toxic shock syndrome. Strep is estimated to cause over 700 million infections each yea...

Scorpion Venom may Help Treat Cancer

...that scorpion venom may help in the treatment of a wide range of cancers . Scorpions occur naturally in ...hundred cells and could improve the treatment of a wide range of cancers, reported the online edition of the Daily Mail. Scientists believe it will help gu...

Genes Influence the Ability to Listen Two Things at a Time

...eres. Todays finding that normal twins show such wide variation in their dichotic listening abilities, and that the differences are mostly due to genetic variation, adds a new perspective to our understanding of auditory processing disorders. These disorders may affect as many as seven percent of scho...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...es in an epidemiological setting as they rely on a wide range of factors that are often hard to quantify. It is also possible that there are environmental issues involved that we dont yet understand, said Dr. Baker. If the amount of exposure were too low to cause the excess risk, we would expect leukem...

Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

...booming pastime that is attracting an increasingly wide following. The blood sport that often uses pit bulls trained to fight is illegal in all 50 states, but can be found across the country. "The phenomenon is increasing. It was very prevalent in the South now it's all over, in Chicago, New York, Ba...

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