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Teens unaware of sexually transmitted diseases until they catch one, Carnegie Mellon study finds

... about sexually transmitted diseases when they are getting diagnosed with them," said Julie Downs, lead author of the study and a member of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon. The results came from a survey of 300 adolescent girls in the Pittsburgh area. The researchers gave ...

Suicide risk does not increase when adults start using antidepressants, study finds

.... "Patients need to be monitored to ensure they're getting the right medication in the amount that can help them feel better." ...

Study fishes out new role for prostaglandins

...have about a 50 percent reduction in their risk of getting colon cancer, DuBois explained. "We've been on a quest for the last 10 years to understand why such a simple drug leads to such a significant reduction in cancer risk," he said. "There are several parts to that puzzle. This (finding) may be one piec...

New crop of technology reveals plant health

...lly detect when individual or groups of plants are getting too hot. Another sensor detects chlorophyll fluorescence, which tells the system the rate at which the plant is absorbing energy. That reflects the current state of photosynthesis, itself a reflection of the plant's health. These sensors communicat...

'Scent of a woman' tells male redback spiders to find a mate

... a smaller body size and less fat reserves against getting to virgin females sooner. The competition is tough -- you'll often find up to eight males on a female's web, says Andrade. The density of males is also critical -- in areas with many males, the researchers found that the males were smaller but had mo...

Thinner and younger

... associate with aging." Holloszy and Fontana are getting ready to launch a second phase of the CALERIE study, to look at the effects of calorie restriction over the course of two years. "We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight," says Fontana. "But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We'r...

Researchers win money to develop breath test to detect breast cancer

...cating breast cancer. "We are very excited about getting this grant without having had too much real exposure to breast cancer research," said Joerg Lahann, assistant professor of chemical engineering and principal investigator. Lahann's team was funded for $446,731 over three years. Lahann also has appoin...

Brittle prions are more infectious

...del for mammalian prions have had a very hard time getting a high degree of activity," he said. "Part of the reason may be that they were trying to create forms that were very stable. But that might have been exactly the wrong thing to do, because prions that are too stable may be the ones that are not very ...

Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad

...up as the plane flew over. "Zakouma elephants are getting massacred right before our eyes," Fay said. "We hadn't been in the air more than two hours when we saw our first carcass. It was fresh, maybe just a few weeks old, not far from the park headquarters, and the animal's face had been chopped off, the tu...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

... they enjoy - and basically their heartburn wasn't getting any better," she said. "So I decided that maybe it's time to look and see if these lifestyle measures really work." In a May issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, Gerson and two other physicians at the School of Medicine - Tonya Kaltenbach, MD, an...

One-third of adults with diabetes still don't know they have it

... physical activity will greatly lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes. If you have diabetes, controlling your blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol will prevent or delay the complications of diabetes." The researchers also found that: nearly 22 percent of people age 65 and older had diabet...

In-home sensors spot dementia signs in elderly

...mple, widely available and inexpensive. Plus, it's getting smaller and smaller, so it can be deployed in elders' homes much less obtrusively. However, "the thing a lot of people don't realize is that although the hardware appears to be the hard part, the data management is the hard part," Hayes said. "Really...

Malaria, potato famine pathogen share surprising trait

... out that they were. But although the mechanism of getting virulence proteins into a host cell is very similar, the infection-causing proteins that are delivered to a host are completely different." To Kamoun's knowledge, this is the first paper to show that such dissimilar pathogens of this type - both are...

Mushrooms as good an antioxidant source as more colorful veggies

...long with a variety of other vegetables, you'll be getting a variety of antioxidants." ...

Toxic molecule may cause most common type of muscular dystrophy

...a Health System have shown for the first time that getting rid of poisonous RNA (ribonucleic acid) in muscle cells can reverse myotonic dystrophy, the most common type of muscular dystrophy in adults. About 40,000 people in the United States have myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD). The disease can cause a s...

UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers

... normally required by several," Li explained. By getting heart muscle cells to produce bioengineered HCN channels, Li and his colleagues were able to reconstruct the SA node of the heart in pigs with implanted electronic pacemakers. The SA node is normally located on the right atrium, the upper right chamb...

Nutrition a major factor in rise in twin pregnancies

...-fifty, a little over twice the rate involved when getting pregnant naturally. Professor Jansen and his team reviewed Australian national birth statistics from 1920 to 2003 to determine the sex of babies at birth among multiple pregnancies. They found that the rate of dizygotic (DZ) twinning ?where two emb...

BGSU biologist trying to crack microscopic code

... to support the outer membrane. "It's kind of like getting oil from the Middle East." Proteins do all the business of cells, including energy transfer, which a couple of different systems handle, according to Larsen. The TonB system, which controls certain "gates" in the outer membrane, is a good model for...

How HIV 'exhausts' killer T cells

...d that you could actually change the PD-1 level by getting rid of the viral antigen with drugs," said Walker. An antigen is a protein on a virus or other infectious agent that triggers an immune reaction. Walker said one of the team's key findings emerged from their test tube studies showing that block...

CHAVI announces international search for genes affecting HIV response

... to work together, the prospects are very real for getting answers by next year," Goldstein said. "This is exactly the kind of work we are trying to catalyze," said CHAVI director Barton Haynes, M.D. Haynes is a professor of medicine and director of the Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University Medical Cen...

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