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Eating, body weight regulated by specific neurons

... close contact with infected poultry, particularly ill or dying chickens. The investigators performed a serologic analysis of individuals exposed to infection during the outbreaks, collecting 983 blood samples from poultry farm workers in the outbreak regions. Blood was tested using three different tech...

European Commission funds EBI to do new research on synergies between bioinformatics and medical informatics

... close contact with infected poultry, particularly ill or dying chickens. The investigators performed a serologic analysis of individuals exposed to infection during the outbreaks, collecting 983 blood samples from poultry farm workers in the outbreak regions. Blood was tested using three different tech...

Prenatal exposure to marine toxin causes lasting damage

.... In 1987, more than 100 people in Canada became ill after eating cultured mussels contaminated with domoic acid. The incident led to three deaths and memory loss in several others. First detected in the U.S. on the Washington coast in 1991, domoic acid is produced by microscopic algae, specifically ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...f natural causes. Also, widespread expectations of ill health and a tendency to attribute all health problems to radiation exposure have led local residents to assume that Chernobyl related fatalities were much higher than they actually were. What diseases have already occurred or might occur in the fut...

Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer

...noshells are non-toxic and can be excreted with no ill effect because gold is biologically compatible. Near-infrared light delivered by a laser has minimal interaction with components found in tissue, and so also does not harm the body. But when nanoshells are injected into an experimental animal with...

Bigger brain size matters for intellectual ability

...elligence in 100 neurologically normal, terminally ill volunteers, who agreed that their brains be measured after death. It found bigger is better, but there are differences between women and men. In women, verbal intelligence was clearly correlated with brain size, accounting for 36 percent of the ve...

New GM mosquito sexing technique is step towards malaria control, report scientists

...could one day make a major impact on the burden of ill health caused by malaria, and is another step towards how genetic modification can be used safely to deal with global problems." ...

Software might revolutionize glucose monitoring in critically ill patients

...s in the monitoring of glucose levels incritically ill patients, saves nurses time and effort and is moreefficient than the paper-based method currently used in manyintensive care units (ICUs). Monitoring blood glucose levels isnecessary to avoid stress hyperglycemia, an insulin resistancecondition that ...

Gene increases risk of tuberculosis

... not all people who are exposed to this bug become ill -- a phenomenon largely explained by genetic differences that make some individuals more prone to developing disease than others. Indeed, a recent scientific study found that a particular region on the human chromosome 17 was associated with increas...

Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant

...control group, Rogers said. "This is a remarkably ill group of patients," Rogers continued. "When you look at the control group, which was receiving the best care medicine has to offer, we can only keep ten percent of them alive after one year. We need to focus on this as a group of patients, since most...

New brain scan technology could save babies' lives

...de, the scanner avoids the need to move critically ill babies to conventional scanning facilities, which ...ntribution to the care and treatment of critically ill babies. Scanners could be available commercially within a few years." ...

Worms know bad food when they smell it

...hey were actively avoiding food that might lead to ill effects, or, conversely, developing a stronger attraction toward food they had found to be safe. With the traditional experimental set-up, where worms migrate toward either of two types of bacteria growing on opposite sides of a lab dish, this was im...

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

...o 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 of ...

Liver cancer linked to cellular repair pathway

...nd many people with advanced liver disease are too ill for surgery to remove tumors," Sicklick said. "There is a desperate need for effective anticancer treatments that are safe for patients with liver disease." The results will be published in the April 4, 2006, issue of Carcinogenesis. The research wa...

Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits

...ad of a persistent infection, some people get very ill from organisms such as Salmonella, H. pylori, tuberculosis and meningitis. How the immune system responds differently in individuals demands further research. Falkow credits his colleagues for providing the fodder for his essay. ...

Scientists look to the Bahamas as a model for coral reef conservation

...ad of a persistent infection, some people get very ill from organisms such as Salmonella, H. pylori, tuberculosis and meningitis. How the immune system responds differently in individuals demands further research. Falkow credits his colleagues for providing the fodder for his essay. ...

Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens

... Greek historian Thucydides, who himself was taken ill with the plague but recovered. Despite Thucydides' detailed description, researchers have not managed to agree on the identity of the plague and several diseases, including bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and measles have been implicated in the eme...

Spousal illness can trigger partner death

...at partner's death. This risk also varies with the ill spouse's diagnosis. The study appears in the Feb. ...al support," says Christakis. "When a spouse falls ill or dies, partners may increase harmful behavior, such as drinking. Stress and lack of social support...

Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy

...rmany alone, and several million worldwide, become ill with cancer. Every fourth death is related to a tumour. We can improve the length and quality of patients' lives by treating them with very specific drugs, which attack a variety of characteristics of tumour cells. Therapy with multi-targeted substan...

Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

...s for 30 years, and I've never seen such miserably ill dogs," said Center, noting that severely affected ...d Bischoff know that many more have died or become ill from the tainted food, based on their many communications with veterinarians as far south as Georgia...

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