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Study charts origins of fear

...In the future, perhaps people can take therapeutic measures before experiencing a particularly discomforting situation." The University of Toronto Innovations Foundation is currently working with Zhuo to push for the translation of this finding into treatments. ...

Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases

...ctions can often be prevented using simple hygiene measures and a little common sense. "Deadly diseases, such as typhoid or cholera, are unlikely to break out after hurricanes and floods in areas where these diseases do not already naturally occur," says Ruth Berkelman, MD, Chair of the Public and Scientific...

Less virulent strains of avian influenza can infect humans

...tries, public education about simple precautionary measures for food preparation, poultry handling, and avoida...ated water are essential until specific prevention measures such as vaccines become available." ...

Transplanting Animal Organs Could Soon Be A Reality

...tries, public education about simple precautionary measures for food preparation, poultry handling, and avoida...ated water are essential until specific prevention measures such as vaccines become available." ...

First Whole Genome Map of Genetic Variability in Parkinson’s Disease

...tries, public education about simple precautionary measures for food preparation, poultry handling, and avoida...ated water are essential until specific prevention measures such as vaccines become available." ...

Eating, body weight regulated by specific neurons

...tries, public education about simple precautionary measures for food preparation, poultry handling, and avoida...ated water are essential until specific prevention measures such as vaccines become available." ...

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

...tries, public education about simple precautionary measures for food preparation, poultry handling, and avoida...ated water are essential until specific prevention measures such as vaccines become available." ...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...ob Disease (vCJD), emerge. An update on the latest measures to protect the public from the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called Mad Cow Disease, and minimize risk of transmission through blood transfusion was presented here at the International Society of Blood Transfusion Con...

DDT-resistant insects have additional genetic advantage that helps resistance spread

...d of genetic advantage to 'superbug' bacteria, and measures such as preventing certain antibiotics from being prescribed may not halt the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. "We found that DDT resistance in fruit flies not only carries no cost but in fact confers an advantage when inherited through ...

Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters

...dividual patients. But researchers say that these measures often make it impossible for them to carry out acc.... "It is becoming increasingly clear that certain measures to protect individual privacy can destroy the information needed for geographical analyses, making i...

An essential regulator of body weight revealed

...keeping them in a cage equipped with a device that measures each time a mouse licks the bottle containing its liquid diet. The effects of eliminating NPY/AgRP neurons in adult mice were dramatic. After treatment with diphtheria toxin, the animals began to eat less and less; by the fifth day, they had stopped ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

... use until remediation is undertaken. A number of measures applied to forests in affected countries and in Scandinavia have reduced human exposure, including restrictions on access to forest areas, on harvesting of food products such as game, berries and mushrooms, and on the public collection of firewood, a...

Give thanks for the cranberry, say dental researchers

... rolls, and pumpkin pie. He recommends traditional measures to avoid cavities: Brush your teeth after dinner, don't snack often, stay away from sugary foods, use a mouth rinse, and get regular dental checkups. ...

Pulp mill devastates swans' sanctuary in Chile

...an government and CELCO to take immediate remedial measures to protect the sanctuary and develop a plan to end...estore it. The first priority now should be strict measures to reduce pollution at the source. At the same time, urgent human health and socio-economic impacts ...

Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer

...datory treatment of alcoholism, and enforcement of measures against home production. Results were swift. From 1985 to 1987, life expectancy increased by 3.2 years for men, and 1.4 years for women, after two decades of a continuously slow decline." In 1992, however, economic reforms led to a liberalization ...

Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

... In the last few years authorities have introduced measures to limit illegal fishing in the EEZ, defend France's economic interests, protect ecosystems and stamp French sovereignty on their territorial waters. A surveillance system using French naval vessels has achieved some success, however the number of ve...

Rutgers researchers scientifically link dancing ability to mate quality

...he first time links dancing ability to established measures of mate quality in humans. Reporting in Thursday's edition of the British science journal Nature, Rutgers anthropologists collaborating with University of Washington computer scientists describe how they created computer-animated figures that duplic...

Researchers show how air pollution can cause heart disease

...r. Finally, the researchers also examined various measures of vascular inflammation, which is involved in atherosclerosis on a number of levels. In the aortas of PM2.5–exposed mice, for example, they found increased levels of macrophages, immune cells that are an important ingredient in plaque deposits and a...

Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant

... the LVADs scored significantly higher on standard measures of quality of life than patients in the 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 pe...

Tuberculosis still a risk for patients receiving HIV drugs

... care settings should also maintain strict control measures to prevent the spread of tuberculosis to patients being treated for HIV, Dr. Girardi added. In an accompanying editorial commentary, Stephen D. Lawn, MRCP, MD, and Robin Wood, MBChB, of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre in South Africa indicated similar ...

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