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Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

...ther study also appearing in the June issue of JAP reports on a different cycling approach: "Six sessions of sprint interval training increases muscle oxidative potential and cycle endurance capacity in humans," by Kirsten A. Burgomaster and Martin J. Gibala, et al., of McMaster University, Canada. See brief...

New Lab Research May Help Those Deafened By Immune System Attack

...olaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery, researchers reports results from a study of 63 people with rapidly progressing hearing loss in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and 20 people with normal hearing. The patients were suspected of having an auto-immune cause for their hearing loss, and all received ster...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

...ional Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, reports that women have in the last 20 years moved from being those least affected by HIV to those in whom the disease is spreading fastest. According to Quinn women now make up nearly half of the 40 million people worldwide currently infected with HIV, the...

Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu

...iam Karesh and Martin Gilbert responded to initial reports of the most recent avian influenza outbreak in Kov...at risk for contracting the virus. Recent reports of influenza outbreaks in wild birds in China and Russia have failed to put die-offs in perspective ...

When in danger humans are similar to a deer in the headlights

...news@bos.blackwellpublishing.net Psychophysiology reports on new theoretical, empirical and methodological advances in: psychology and psychiatry, cognitive science, cognitive and affective neuroscience, social science, health science and behavioral medicine, and biomedical engineering. It is published on b...

Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals

...er chance of becoming adults as do purebred ones," reports a paper planned for publication in January 2006 in the British journal Animal Conservation. "Hybrids are expanding the known range of habitats panthers occupy and use," the paper adds. In view of the paper's importance for management decisions, its ...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

...es on the use of supplements for menopause, Warren reports that the seven clinical trials using black cohosh ... kava kava has been reported to have some benefit, reports of serious side effects have led to it being banned for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Fo...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

...es on the use of supplements for menopause, Warren reports that the seven clinical trials using black cohosh ... kava kava has been reported to have some benefit, reports of serious side effects have led to it being banned for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Fo...

Once given 'no respect,' cells' tiny RNAS take driver's seat

... proteins. Accompanying the Hopkins paper are two reports looking specifically at microRNAs in cancer -- one in humans, one in mice. One report shows that human tumors' microRNA "fingerprints" -- patterns showing which of the more than 200 known microRNAs are more or less abundant than normal -- identify th...

Life-extending protein keeps blood sugar in check

...and flies keeps blood sugar under control in mice, reports a new study in the August Cell Metabolism. The findings suggest therapeutic interventions for the prevention and treatment of metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes, which frequently arise with age, the researchers said. The team found that mi...

Newly Discovered Role for Heart Response Enzyme May Yield Better Heart Failure Therapy

...s two to three million people in the U.S. The team reports its findings in the August 2005 issue of Nature Cell Biology. The study is now available as an advance online publication. "We've uncovered new details of the first step of heart failure, in which heart receptors that normally allow the heart to ada...

Sea Ice May Be on Increase in the Antarctic

...and flies keeps blood sugar under control in mice, reports a new study in the August Cell Metabolism. The findings suggest therapeutic interventions for the prevention and treatment of metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes, which frequently arise with age, the researchers said. The team found that mi...

Two designer drugs hit same lung cancer target, but only one is effective

...nt, overactive growth signal in lung cancer cells, reports a team headed by scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Although both drugs killed cells containing a normal but overactive EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) molecule, only gefitinib (Iressa) killed lung cancer cells containing a muta...

WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets

...ons of cases in Russia and Kazakhstan. The initial reports of avian influenza came from the Mongolian Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which conducted preliminary testing of birds that died at Erkhel Lake in the Kovsgol province near the Russian border. A joint WCS-Mongolia team that was working in western...

Errors in the measurement of global warming corrected

...iosonde) probably explains the discrepancy between reports showing that atmospheric temperatures have been unchanged since the 1970's, while temperatures at the Earth's surface are rising. For the last 40 years radiosonde temperature information has been collected twice each day from stations around the wor...

Forsyth scientists find three bacteria associated with oral cancer

...robiota as a Diagnostic Indicator of Oral Cancer," reports on a study, begun in 2000, in which the scientists compared bacterial samples from the saliva of 229 healthy subjects with samples from 45 patients who had been diagnosed with oral cancer. The team found elevated levels of three bacterial species (C....

Infectious disease expert warns of spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever

... in 2004, up from 19 in 2000.) The scientist also reports that the number of people infected with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is fatal in up to 10 percent of those who contract it, has peaked for the third known time this century, with more than 1,800 cases reported nationally in 2003 and 2004. Howe...

UCLA scientists reveal how Nipah virus infects cells

...nd launch its attack. The online edition of Nature reports the findings July 6. "In its natural state, the Nipah virus can be used as a potential bioterrorism agent capable of devastating an entire country's public health and economy," said Dr. Benhur Lee, principal investigator and UCLA assistant professor...

Exercise aside, genes may ultimately dictate seniors' mobility

...34 percent of the U.S. population aged 70 or older reports difficulty walking a quarter of a mile. These individuals are at much greater risk of moving into a nursing home or dying over a two-year period, compared with their counterparts who do not report trouble walking the distance. And despite the undisp...

Less virulent strains of avian influenza can infect humans

...h implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of ...s during an outbreak in domestic poultry. Previous reports of human infection in Asia, Canada, and the Netherlands have been associated, in contrast, with high...

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