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Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics
...d to heart disease or other maladies. That's bad news for those with undiagnosed diabetes. "The obesity epidemic is surging and people don't realize they're setting themselves up to develop diabetes. They're like ticking time bombs," said Dr. Manisha Chandalia, an endocrinologist at UT Southwestern. "...A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice
...n vitro and long-term memory in vivo." "The good news is that fisetin is readily available in strawberries but the bad news is that because of its natural product status there may be little financial interest in getting it i......competition between large carnivores. "The good news is that given the chance, tigers can replenish their numbers; the bad news is that they are not being given that chance in many parts of their range," said WCS’s noted big-cat...Artificial cornea offers better results for infants, some blind patients
... a trouble-free artificial cornea or K-Pro is good news for those patients. "In the past, people have thought that keratoprosthesis, or an artificial cornea, was only for patients who were in disastrous circumstances, who couldn't receive a cornea the traditional way," Aquavella said. "Now, because of ...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
...any fear." As well, forest transitions are good news for wildlife like tigers and moose whose forest habitat has been decimated by human activity. Skinhead Earth? Earlier research showed farmers have so successfully learned to extract more crop from a given area that land needed for agriculture i...What does the public really know about HPV?
...rd of HPV and reported that they had seen or heard news or ads about HPV in the past week; Although 42 percent of respondents had heard about a vaccine for HPV, 80 percent indicated never having talked to a health care provider about the virus. How the vaccine was presented greatly affected wom...Fantastic Voyage: A new nanoscale view of the biological world
...nce University in Portland, USA in an accompanying news article, also published today in Journal of Biology. ...Vaccination with embryonic stem cells prevents lung cancer in mice
...onmental factors. Professor John Eaton told a news briefing at the EORTC-NCI-AACR [1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Prague today (Wednesday 8 November): "We found that the vaccinations were between 80-100% effective in preventing tumour growth in mice that were subsequentl...Scientists discover way to block growth of prostate cancer cells
...eated for primary tumours. Dr Hirak Basu told a news briefing at the EORTC-NCI-AACR [1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Prague today (Wednesday 8 November): "Previous work has demonstrated that androgen treatment increased reactive oxygen species levels in androgen-dependent p...Evolution of Old World fruit flies on three continents mirrors climate change
...at least on these organisms," Huey said. "The good news is that these flies may be able to adapt, at least to some extent, to a warming climate. However, organisms with longer intervals between new generations, humans or sequoia trees for example, probably can't adapt nearly as readily. "We humans are ...Invasive ants territorial when neighbors are not kin
...tive ways to control the ants. That would be good news for anyone surrounded by the pervasive creatures. "When people saw that the ants from different supercolonies were fighting with each other, they were glad to know that things were moving in the right direction," quipped Holway. ...By 2048 all current fish, seafood species projected to collapse
... International Managing Editor Andrew Sugden. "The news is both bad and good. "The strength of this pape...tion, fish kills and coastal flooding. "The good news is that it is not too late to turn things around," Worm said. The scientists studied 48 areas worldw...Widely used hepatitis B drug spurs HIV drug resistance
... already using drugs to suppress HIV. "The good news is that co-infected patients already on HIV therap... entecavir to treat their hepatitis B, but the bad news is that there are now fewer options for treating hepatitis B first," she adds. Hepatitis B infectio...Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients
... from it, another option for some patients is good news say the researchers. "Additional study is still necessary, but we are confident that percutaneous cryoablation will continue to be a good option for some of our patients," says Bradley Leibovich, M.D., study co-author and Mayo Clinic urologist. ...Circumcision: A proven strategy to prevent HIV
...-Saharan Africa. "This is really the first good news we've had in quite a long time. If we can reduce the risk of infection by such a substantial amount then we can save a lot of lives." In December the National Institutes of Health halted Bailey's trial of male circumcision after the study's indepe...Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good
...hemistry & Industry magazine from SCI delivers news and comment from the interface between science and business. As well as covering industry and science, it focuses on developments that will be of significant commercial interest in five- to ten-years time. Published twice-monthly and free to SCI Mem...Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
...n has been the favorite ethanol source. While good news for farmers, corn prices have doubled in the past two years, and consumers worldwide are feeling the pinch as food prices climb. A far better source is to produce ethanol from cellulose, easing pressure on foo d supplies and yielding greater gree...Can engineered immune cells stop AIDS?
...orld," Wang and his coauthors wrote. That's good news for the World Aids Foundation, which announced on World AIDS Day (Dec. 1, 2006) that the disease is on the rise again. More than 39 million people around the world are now infected with HIV, the foundation reported. "I think we are finally on the r...Severe mental retardation gene mutation identified
...d one family that said this knowledge was the best news they had ever been given." "We have identified the cause of problems in certain families and are able to tell whether or not women are carriers of the condition," Dr. Raymond comments. "Consequently, the families that had previously chosen to for...... that participated in the effort. “This is great news for all of the organizations that have worked to protect Bwindi and its gorilla population,?said Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Dr. Alastair McNeilage, who is also the director of the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation in Bwindi. “Th...Other Tagslowest 2lowest 3lowest 4lowest 5lowest 6lowest 7lowest 8lowest 9lowest 10league 2packages 2packages 3highlights 2highlights 3highlights 4highlights 5habits 2gained 2gained 3gained 4gained 5Other Contentsdoubledoubledoubledoubledoubledoubledoubledoubledoubledowndowndowndowndowndowndowndowndowndowndrugdrugdrugdrugdrugdrugdrugdrugdrugdrugdyneindyneincolicolicolicolicolicolicolicolicoli
(Date:8/28/2008)...hers at The University of Nottingham have develope...o look at microscopic activity within the body,s c...live as it happens. , The cutting edge laser tec... MRC (Medical Research Council) for a five-year pr...world of activity taking place within single cells...
(Date:8/28/2008)...NGHAM, Ala. -- Intravenous magnesium sulfate suppl...or handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according ...gham (UAB) obstetrician Dwight Rouse, M.D., and pu...ournal of Medicine. , Cerebral palsy refers to ...l of movement and posture and limiting activity. T...
(Date:8/27/2008)...owa -- Iowa State University researcher Robert Jer...ve controlled motions. , Most biochemists tradi...rolled movements. , Research conducted by Jernig...matics and Biological Statistics together with Gua...e and graduate student Lei Yang, over a 10-year pe...
(Date:8/27/2008)...POLIS Indiana University researchers have introdu...x problems of scientific collaboration. , Design...e social networking for the science community, Lab...research papers and data, organize groups and proj...mize personal and group profiles all online. , ...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Life under the laser 2Common treatment to delay labor decreases preterm infants' risk for cerebral palsy 2Common treatment to delay labor decreases preterm infants' risk for cerebral palsy 3Iowa State University researcher shows proteins have controlled motions 2Indiana U researchers launch social networking and research management tool for scientists 2Huge Drop in Preterm Birth Risk Among Women Taking Folic Acid One Year Before Conception 1295 1Huge Drop in Preterm Birth Risk Among Women Taking Folic Acid One Year Before Conception 1295 2Huge Drop in Preterm Birth Risk Among Women Taking Folic Acid One Year Before Conception 1295 3Oregon researchers find trigger gene for muscle development 10648 1Oregon researchers find trigger gene for muscle development 10648 2Researchers uncover more about how poxviruses evade the immune system 10646 1Researchers uncover more about how poxviruses evade the immune system 10646 2Researchers uncover more about how poxviruses evade the immune system 10646 3Medpace Hires Clinical Pharmacologist Jim Wei MD PhD 2909 1Medpace Hires Clinical Pharmacologist Jim Wei MD PhD 2909 2(Date:8/29/2008)...few glasses of wine enough to disrupt normal devel...g. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Just a few glasses of wi...e fetal problems, suggest researchers from the Med...f fetal alcohol syndrome, which affects one in 1,0...flat and high upper lip, small eye openings, and a...
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(Date:8/29/2008)...GO Results of a 10-year study published in the Au...ine found that magnesium sulfate administered to ...ced the risk of cerebral palsy by 50 percent. The ...(BEAM) trial was conducted in 18 centers in the U....rst prenatal intervention ever found to reduce the...
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