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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...

Wild tigers need cat food

...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...

Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number

... 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...

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