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Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to angry oceans

...d sizes of coral colonies onto a simple scale that measures their vulnerability to being dislodged. Any severe event, like a hurricane, imposes a threshold that can be scored on the same scale, allowing scientists to determine which coral will live and which will die. The scientists found that the most vu...

Planning ahead: Having the healthiest baby possible

...elivering a robust, healthy baby. Three important measures include: Managing conditions such as diabetes, ...s and smoking More information on these and other measures are now freely accessible online in a special Supplement to the Maternal and Child Health Journal, p...

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible

...using a specific test (the d2-test) that primarily measures attention and concentration [2]. Dr Bartsch said: "After short-term sobriety of less than two months, we found that brain volume had increased by an average of nearly two per cent (1.82%), with a range of -0.19 to 4.32%. Only the one patient with ...

Flu shot effective against drifted influenza, nasal spray vaccine less so

...clinical diagnosis of "influenza-like illness," or measures of the immune response to infection in the blood. For the present study, Monto and lead author Suzanne Ohmit, assistant research scientist in epidemiology, took throat swab specimens from participants experiencing flu symptoms and analyzed them, usi...

Special chip provides better picture of salmon health

... and performance is very difficult as conventional measures used in other animals, such as temperature, blood ...precision aquaculture, where we use very sensitive measures ?gene expression ?to pre-empt any adverse production changes in farmed fish populations as well as t...

Altered perception of reward in human cocaine addiction

...users, there was a "disconnect" between subjective measures of motivation (how much they said they were engaged in the task) and the objective measures of motivation (how fast and accurately they performed on the task). "These behavioral data implicate...

Brain regions do not communicate efficiently in adults with autism

...e Society for Neuroscience on the first study that measures neural activity by using high-resolution electroencephalography (EEG) to examine connections in the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain that deals with higher cognitive processes. Compared to normally developing individuals, the scientists fo...

New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care

...ermine compliance with pre-established performance measures developed by ASH that are important in the care of...yndromes (MDS). "The hematologists who use these measures are not passive learners. They are not simply reading about how to improve patient care ?they will b...

A new target for painkillers

... -- RgIA is from the species Conus regius, which measures 1.6 to 2.8 inches in length and lives from Georgia...- Vc1.1 is from the species Conus victoriae, which measures 1.4 to 2.8 inches long and lives off portions of Australia. RgIA and Vc1.1 fit like keys into loc...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...ock in 1990 and 2005. Evidently, prosperity and measures such as good governance that raise income need not shrink forests, according to the paper. Forest "transitions" While forest density data are relatively new, forest area data spanning 200 years show several places worldwide have shifted from ne...

Controlling antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in hospitals

...ng Evidence-Based Practice. The study looked at measures to prevent development of antibiotic resistance as...rs reported that if hospitals implemented specific measures to control the use of antibiotics they were more likely to have succeeded in controlling antibiotic ...

Firefighters face increased risk for certain cancers

...nts, they need--and deserve--additional protective measures that will ensure they aren't at an increased cancer risk." The UC-led team analyzed information on 110,000 firefighters, most of them full-time, white male workers, from 32 previously published scientific studies to determine the comprehensive hea...

Molecules in blood foretell development of preeclampsia

...e usually occurs in women with high levels of both measures and not in women with high levels of only one or the other." Dr. Levine added that detecting high levels of both soluble endoglin and sFlt1 early in pregnancy might be especially helpful in predicting the later development of preeclampsia. Detecti...

New technique boosts size of proteins that can be analyzed

...ach, the technique uses a mass spectrometer, which measures the masses of ions or charged particles. Researche...protein. The top-down approach, on the other hand, measures the whole protein and thus provides more confident identifications; it is also better at revealing m...

PET imaging shows young smokers quick benefit of quitting

...t, said Tamaki. PET—a diagnostic imaging test that measures metabolic activity and generates images of organ or tissue function?will continue to provide insight into coronary risk analysis and risk management (such as smoking cessation and lowering one's cholesterol)," he added. In the Hokkaido University ...

Household transmission of SARS: Lessons learned

... situation, in which urgent prevention and control measures neededto be taken, while at the same time the identity of the infectious agent was unknown. ...

Tiny Tampa Bay fish key to evolution of immune system

...rd flu, we have to take into account the defensive measures those and other organisms might have." Organisms such as plants, fungi and primitive animal life are classified as having an innate immune system, which defends against invaders by recognizing predetermined patterns of molecules. About 520 million y...

German researchers develop first non-invasive test to measure skin aging

...e demonstrated a new technique that non-invasively measures in real time the level of damage to the skin from ...progressive loss of skin smoothness. The technique measures relative amounts of collagen and elastin by a single factor, which can be positive or negative, like...

End-of-life care can be improved

...sures. This article proposes 18 candidate quality measures that could be implemented in ICUs tomorrow. Dr. M...at further work also is needed to demonstrate such measures are valid and reliable. End-of-Life Interventions Considering that 20% of deaths in the United S...

US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK

...ieves this is most likely the result of protective measures put in place in the United States and Mexico. ‘... species reached near-extinction before protective measures began in the mid-1960s. Previously absent in UK waters since 1974, sightings of this species returne...

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