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Watching the brain switch off 'self'

...Ilan Goldberg of the Weizmann Institute of Science reporting in the April 20, 2006, issue of Neuron--say their findings show that self-related function actually shuts down during such intense sensory tasks. Thus, an "observer" function in the brain does not appear to play an active part of in the production of...

Avian flu transmission to humans may be higher than thought

...y, and 11,755 (25.9 percent) resided in households reporting sick or dead poultry." The researchers report that having poultry in the household was not a risk factor for developing a flu-like illness, but having direct contact with sick or dead poultry produced the highest risk for flu-like illness. "Low soci...

Nearly half of people who need cholesterol treatment don't get it

...orest University School of Medicine and colleagues reporting in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. "Under-treatment of cholesterol disorders is a major public health challenge," said lead author David Goff Jr., M.D., Ph.D. "In our study of middle-age and older adults with no symptoms of c...

Statins have neutral effect on risk of cancer

...rticipants) that met their criteria for inclusion, reporting 26 randomized controlled trials of statins with data on either cancer incidence (n = 20 studies) or cancer death (n = 22 studies). "In our current meta-analysis, statins did not reduce the incidence of cancer or cancer death," the authors report...

HIV decline in Zimbabwe linked to behavioural change

...rlier one. For women aged 15 to 17, the percentage reporting sexual experience dropped from 21 percent to 9 per...At the same time, the proportions of men and women reporting a recent casual sexual partner fell by 49 and 22 percent respectively. ...

Thinner and younger

...er at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge is reporting that six months of calorie restriction reduces two...one extensive research with CRONies, most recently reporting in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that the hearts of people ...

New HIV study identifies high-risk subgroups of adolescents

... than half (52 percent) of the boys in the cluster reporting the most unprotected sex, and with the most mental... Girls in the group at highest risk for HIV (those reporting the most unprotected sex) were 38 percent African-American, 37 percent white, and 30 percent Latino....

Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

...d Physics Letters, a leading international journal reporting on significant new findings in physics applied to engineering, technology and other sciences. The article, "Discrete Magnetic Microfluidics," can be viewed online at http://apl.aip.org/ . Digital magnetofluidics enables tiny drops of fluids to b...

Spinal cord bridge bypasses injury to restore mobility

... Medicine, was senior author among the researchers reporting in the Journal of Neuroscience article, "Combining an Autologous Peripheral Nervous System 'Bridge' and Matrix Modification by Chondroitinase Allows Robust Functional Regeneration beyond a Hemisection Lesion of the Adult Rat Spinal Cord." The other ...

Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience

...subjects reported significant fear, with some also reporting transient feelings of paranoia," says Griffiths. "Under unmonitored conditions, it's not hard to imagine those emotions escalating to panic and dangerous behavior." The researchers' message isn't just that psilocybin can produce mystical experience...

Jefferson scientists identify gene mutation potentially involved in breast cancer initiation

... disease and muscular dystrophy. The researchers, reporting in June 2006 in the American Journal of Pathology, say their results open up the possibility that Caveolin-1 mutations may be involved in the development of estrogen-positive human breast cancer, which accounts for some 70 percent of all breast cance...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...able, biologists may do well to think twice before reporting a species' decline. ...

Tuberculosis: The bacillus takes refuge in adipose cells

...berculosis is endemic, and from Parisian districts reporting very few cases of tuberculosis. The bacterium was detected in the adipose tissue of about a quarter of these people, all of whom were unaware they were infected, in both Mexico and France. These results suggest that the bacillus responsible for tub...

Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children

...at their child had health issues, with 29 per cent reporting a current problem, compared with 18 per cent in the control group. In general, children with low birth weight had poorer lung function, appetite and motor function than normal birth-weight children, as well as being more anxious, less positive and l...

A new approach to growing heart muscle

... This week, University of Michigan researchers are reporting significant progress in growing bioengineered heart muscle, or BEHM, with organized cells, capable of generating pulsating forces and reacting to stimulation more like real muscle than ever before. The three-dimensional tissue was grown using an i...

New study: Preterm birth causes one-third of all infant deaths

...s a greater role in infant death than the official reporting system indicates. The researchers proposed a new ...followed by prematurity, according to the official reporting systems. But, using this new classification, premature birth would be the most frequent cause of inf...

Low levels of neurotransmitter serotonin may perpetuate child abuse across generations

...eri said. Maestripieri is lead author of a paper reporting the research, "Early Maternal Rejection Affects the Development of Monoaminergic Systems and Adult Abusive Parenting in Rhesus Macaques" published in the current issue of Behavioral Neuroscience. The study is the first to show that naturally occurr...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

... is intended to be an example of best practice for reporting such studies. Guidelines laying out minimum requir...ents for data recording, statistical analysis, and reporting are contained in the consensus statement for infection control studies---labelled the ORION (Outbrea...

Tissue engineering for craniofacial reconstruction

...al Association for Dental Research, scientists are reporting on High Internal Phase Emulsion (HIPE) polymerization, which affords tremendous control of scaffold morphology. HIPEs can be readily molded into the irregular shapes often required in craniofacial reconstruction and cured in situ to a rigid foam. The...

Re-analysis of cigarettes confirms tobacco companies increased addictive nicotine 11 percent

...an health. They suggest that MDPH amend its unique reporting requirements to include more information about cigarette and smokeless tobacco product design features that affect nicotine delivery - as well as testing of a sample of brands for the actual delivery of nicotine to the body. ...

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