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Spousal illness can trigger partner death

...connected in such a fashion that the health of one person is related to the health of another," reports Nich...ce a decrease in the burden of these events in one person can have a cascading benefit for others. The training and assistance of caregivers can lower costs a...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

...nto neurons. My hope is that in five years, say, a person with spinal cord impairment could visit a doctor a...and another proving that stem cells taken from one person can be successfully implanted into another. A list of conditions for which stem-cell treatment hold...

World first research to speed up cure for ear infections

...ide health problem and it is common for an average person to take up to 10 years before they receive medical treatment. "We tend to ignore ear infections thinking they will go away or we might have a reluctance to visit the doctor ?but in third-world countries the problem is common due to the lack of avail...

Researchers test new way to quit smoking

...nicotine substitute might improve the chances of a person staying smoke-free. "It's been suggested that if ... substance. It has been proposed that the stress a person undergoes when giving up cigarettes, coupled with the burden of remembering to use alternative metho...

Flu not the only germ threat this time of year

...s attention has migrated to bird flu, not a single person in the western hemisphere has contracted the deadl...ses whose effects can range from simply giving the person a few sniffles to causing life-threatening pneumonia. Someone with the flu is more likely to have a ...

World shark attacks dipped in 2005, part of long-term trend

...ld do under those circumstances," Burgess said. "A person who is under attack should act aggressively toward the shark and not follow the advice given to women who are having their purses snatched in New York City, which is to lie on the ground, play dead and give up the purse." Despite the worldwide decli...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

... whether a genetic predisposition actually makes a person sick depends on the interaction between genes and ... a disease has such a different prognosis from one person to the next. Given the recent advances in biomedical research, this is the right time to take on thi...

Lizard 'third eye' sheds light on evolution of color vision

...all company," says Yau. "You have to delegate each person to do more things." By sharing features found in human photoreceptors as well as those found in simpler organisms like the scallop, the researchers propose that the lizard's parietal eye photoreceptor cells represent a "missing link" between the lig...

How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?

...the avian virus could allow it to easily pass from person to person. An epidemic with a completely new type of virus such as this represents viral shift, and is usually far deadlier because there is no pre-existing immunity in the population. Furthermore, although it has never been known to have been deve...

Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study

...ucial decisions following abrupt awakening. "If a person is awakened suddenly by a fire alarm, for example, motivation alone may be insufficient to overcome the effects of sleep inertia," he said. The paid study volunteers, nine of whom were included in the sleep inertia study, slept eight hours per nigh...

A new way of looking at molecular motors

...le motors that run backward and forward, the way a person moves hand over hand along a rope. Making muscles contract involves a large number of motors that work very fast in neatly arranged teams, quickly letting go of the track once they have completed their "power stroke." Most molecular motors have a h...

Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes

...e cortex, or rACC, becomes much more active when a person realizes he or she has made an error that carries consequences ?for instance, losing money. By contrast, the same area of the brain doesn't show the same level of activity when the mistake doesn't carry a penalty, or even when a correct action carr...

Outsmarting the smartie bug

...e 'carried' at least one strain. It is passed from person to person by sneezing and other aerosols. However, it occasionally passes from the airways to invade other tis...

Drug-resistant bacteria patterns in intensive care units changing nationally

...ization, are not effective predictors of whether a person is carrying the community strain. "Lines are blurring as far as risk factors are concerned," Dr. Klevens said. The study summarized MRSA data at the national level, indicating general trends, but physicians need to know what is happening in their ...

A large step forward in the fight against African sleeping sickness

...ood-sucking tsetse fly transmits the parasite from person to person. Once someone has been infected by the parasite, the person's body has great difficulty getting the infection under control, because the parasite constantly changes appearance. Thus, the trypanosome remains impervious to the antibodies that...

Loosen leash on cancer protein 'watchdog,' researchers say

...ot subject to the same stresses as, for example, a person working on Wall Street. It remains to be seen whether higher p53, in conjunction with other factors such as stress, could still lead to negative consequences such as aging. We'll have to do a lot more work before this becomes a routine part of medici...

Understanding the actions of others requires the frontal cortex

.... It has been known for over 100 years that if a person suffers a stroke in the left frontal cortex, he or...e researchers showed participants video clips of a person lifting up a box, and asked the participants to determine the weight of the box by paying close atte...

Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names

...-people make mistakes," Kondrak said. "But now one person using PPC's system can identify sound-alike and look-alike drug names with great accuracy in a matter of seconds," he added. Drug companies covet finding good, short drug names that are easy to remember, Kondrak noted, adding, "the FDA and other drug...

Obese people are more sensitive to pain, suggests study

...the pain." "This is important because if an obese person begins an exercise program, he may not cognitively experience pain when in fact it is hurting the body on some level," Emery said. "That could lead to severe pain down the road." Emery and his colleagues presented their findings on March 4 in Denver...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

.... "So we are only computing the probability of any person becoming infected on any given day, and a roll of the dice is needed to decide whether they are infected or not," said Germann. Other elements of randomness modify the simulated disease course. A significant fraction of infected people (33 percent i...

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