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NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention

...th numerous male partners in mid-October, reported feeling unwell in late October and November, and subsequently had positive ELISA and Western Blot (HIV tests) documented in mid-December. The individual then progressed to a diagnosis of highly drug-resistant AIDS by mid-January. Ordinarily, it has taken up ...

New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers

...s report seeing colors when listening to music, or feeling tactile shapes while tasting food. This cross-activation might develop, they theorize, by a failure of the "pruning" of neural connections between the areas in the developing brain. The rare condition called synesthesia--in which people's sensory pe...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...seismic vibration. To make sure the elephants were feeling the calls and not hearing them, microphones were installed above ground so researchers could monitor all low frequency sounds in the air. "The results of our 2002 study showed us that elephants do indeed detect warning calls played through the ground...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

...e of Child Health in London, summed up the general feeling afterwards: "It just seems too easy." ...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

...one hopes, may never have to be used, Jacobs has a feeling now of years of research coming to fruition. "This is the result of work that we have been doing for 15 years now and I think we are really very close to producing some really important findings, especially now that we are engaged in these fast-trac...

Thinking the pain away? Study shows the brain's painkillers may cause 'placebo effect'

... a medicine to ease their pain. They then reported feeling less pain. The mind-body connection is quite clear." The findings are based on sophisticated brain scans from 14 young healthy men who agreed to allow researchers to inject their jaw muscles with a concentrated salt water solution to cause pain. The...

Nanoscale method for investigating living systems

...be theorized but not directly observed. "To get a feeling of why this is important, you have to understand that each of our cell membranes has specific pores in them that regulate the flow of ions in and out," says Blick. "Through these ions, your cells will build up electric potential and communicate with ...

A step toward the $1,000 personal genome using readily available lab equipment

... evolved in the lab. "These developments give the feeling that improvements are coming very quickly," said HMS professor of genetics Church, who also heads the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, MIT-Harvard DOE Genomes to Life Center, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Excellence ...

What Makes The Brain Tick, Tick, Tick: Researchers Gaining New Insights Into Brain's Internal Clock

...brain for the interval clock is like the blind man feeling just the toe of the elephant and trying to describe how it works," he said. "While we're very excited about our success so far, we want to be modest about our capabilities. We are blind men touching just one part of this elephant that is time. "And ...

Getting close to nature is good for you

...health benefits, ascribed to being outdoors and to feeling part of a greater system connecting beyond the individual. Such projects can help overcome social isolation, develop skills, and improve employment prospects, as well as provide the known benefits associated with exercise. Although initial research ...

Penicillin, amoxicillin: Step aside for strep throat treatment

... drugs are no longer needed since the children are feeling better, despite the medication label that urges parents to make sure the child finishes all the medications. The good intentions directly lead to children becoming sick on and off for weeks or months, as the strep germ isn't quite killed off but ins...

Looking for the genes that affect a person's level of response to alcohol

...brock. "One is the person's subjective opinion of feeling intoxicated, which is the scale used, and the other one is an objective behavioral measure, which is body sway. We know that as people get intoxicated, their ability to stand still is impaired, so that they actually do move back and forth." In addi...

Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers

...ssible to ask all staff to stay home when they are feeling ill to prevent other people from catching their infection," she says. Still other studies have found that education campaigns can be effective at increasing vaccination rates among health care workers by as much as 60 percent. And to the surprise...

Brain differences could explain why males and females experience pain relief differently

...c forms of pain than are men and that women report feeling more pain than men following various medical procedures. Recent recommendations from the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Society indicate that opioid drugs or "narcotics", such as morphine, are essential in the management of...

Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases

...Shisler said. "So we are starting to get a broader feeling that there is a common mechanism, that of inhibiting NF-kB activity, that all viruses are trying to utilize to survive in the host. What is interesting is that MC160 appears to be doing it in a completely novel way, than any identified before, by foc...

Study shows pine bark naturally decreases severe chronic venous insufficiency

...ite score for edema including pain, restless legs, feeling of heavy swollen legs, and skin alterations was found to be decreased with Pycnogenol® by 64%, whereas Daflon® was only half as effective, lowering the composite edema score by 32%. The transdermal oxygen and carbon dioxide concentration in the lo...

A reason why video games are hard to give up

...he four new studies about gaming. Players reported feeling best when the games produced positive experiences and challenges that connected to what they know in the real world. The research found that games can provide opportunities for achievement, freedom, and even a connection to other players. Those ...

Like a snail through the intestinal canal

...sults in the walls being stretched and the patient feeling pain and discomfort. A better method, according to TU Delft researcher Dimitra Dodou, is in fact to use this layer of mucus and allow the robot to imitate the forward movement of a snail. A snail leaves a trail of slime behind it on the ground. Th...

Scientists get best look ever at water-life connection

...o uses nuclear magnetic resonance and so on." "My feeling is that there is no real controversy -- everybody is just looking at the same answer from different angles," he added. The answer, revealed in Zhong's lab: water molecules do move fast on their own, but they slow down -- to a speed midway between th...

First biomarker for human sleepiness identified in fruit flies

...., assistant professor of neurobiology. "If you're feeling sleepy on your way over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house, it's much better to pull over and find a place where you can sleep for a while than to continue on and risk a serious accident." The study appears this week in the onl...

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