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Machine preservation may promote more organ sharing

...ategory was created by UNOS in 2002 so that higher risk donor organs, once considered unsuitable, could be transplanted safely. The category includes kidneys from deceased donors over age 60 years or those over age 50 with health conditions such as high blood pressure, stroke or elevated levels of a prote...

Gene malfunctions cause schizophrenia, depression symptoms in mice

...SC1 as a common genetic and biologically plausible risk factor for major mental illness," concluded Clapcote and colleagues. They wrote that "our findings lend further credence to the growing recognition that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share, at least in part, common genetic etiologies and thus un...

Peramivir protects mice from lethal H5N1 infection

...ventive measure during an outbreak to decrease the risk of infection," he said. Boltz is first author of a paper, which was presented April 30 at the 20th International Conference on Antiviral Research in Palm Springs, Calif. "We were surprised to see a 40 percent survival rate among mice after just a ...

Why do oysters choose to live where they could be eaten?

...s, a team of scientists has found that despite the risk of being eaten by cannibalistic adults, oyster lar...r research shows that oyster larvae are willing to risk predation by adult oysters to cash in on the benefits accrued by spending the remainder of their liv...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

...hich limits endangered species to those simply "at risk of extinction." The scientists and philosophers pr...ginal law defined an endangered species as one "at risk of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range." "It is clear that Congress i...

Simple home spit test to spot deadly pre-eclampsia

...-to-be to check for themselves whether they are at risk of the condition, which can be symptomless in the early stages but kills 1000 babies in the UK every year. The test is expected to be more reliable than the traditional blood pressure and urine tests conducted in GPs' offices and hospitals. Pre-ecl...

UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough

...ple as well as prevent against it. Those most at risk from RSV are children aged two and under, especially those with weak respiratory symptoms, elderly people and the immunocompromised, such as people with HIV or those who have weakened immune systems due to treatments such as chemotherapy. "Benefits...

Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

...th the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are at an increased risk of developing certain lymphomas (cancers of the ly...f Medicine, found that HCV infection increased the risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma by 20 percent to 30 percent. The risk of developing Waldenström...

Molecule that destroys bone also protects it, new research shows

...17 too much could put people taking such a drug at risk for opportunistic infections such as periodontal disease and tuberculosis, she noted. "Developing knowledge about the molecules that contribute to host defense versus pathology is very important for gaining a fundamental understanding of the immu...

WHO data confirms low level of resistance to Tamiflu

...h any antiviral medication, there is a theoretical risk that a virus may emerge with decreased sensitivity..., thus under-dosing the patient and increasing the risk of resistance.3 Once the twice daily treatment dose was provided, the patient recovered from her ill...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...e, another disease that leaves its victims at high risk for cancer and higher sensitivity to DNA-damaging radiation. So this work has important medical implications for these and other diseases linked to disruption of double-strand break repair." The assay, developed by Elijahu Berkovich, Ph.D., in Ka...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...ge of biodiversity is so incomplete that we are at risk of losing a great deal of it before it is ever discovered," Wilson called for a contemporary, dynamic portrait of the living Earth. "I wish that we will work together to help create the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth’s biod...

Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer

...ne will be effective in lowering a girl's lifetime risk of cervical cancer. To that end Merck launched the national "One Less" campaign last year, which encourages females eligible for the vaccine to begin their vaccination series of three shots over six months and to continue seeing their doctor for reg...

HIV survival improves if patients stay in care

...ng the year after starting treatment had a greater risk of dying than those who saw the physicians at leas...ts with visits in one quarter had nearly twice the risk of dying compared to patients with visits in all four quarters. "The next step is to figure out h...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

...eous coronary intervention (PCI) cuts the combined risk of heart attack and cardiac death by half, accordi..., rather than the standard 300-mg dose, halved the risk of major complications associated with blood clotting, or thrombosis. In addition, the higher dose d...

Hepatitis E takes a piggyback

...ays that pigs get HEV early enough to minimise the risk of human infection. The scenario humans need to worry about would occur if the infection rate in pigs drops. At low infection rates, there is actually a higher chance pigs will pass on HEV to humans at slaughter. Kunio Satou and Hiroshi Nishiura ana...

New host species for avian influenza identified

...luenza A virus should assist both in assessing the risk of the virus spread by wild birds and with the design of new surveillance studies for high and low pathogenic avian influenza in migratory birds. ...

Asexual worm quickly adapts to soil contamination

...ies are used as test organisms in ecotoxicological risk evaluations. The question now arises as to whether they are suitable for this purpose. The results of this study are important for the development of protection strategies for natural populations. This can be realised by focusing environmental ma...

Heavy multivitamin use may be linked to advanced prostate cancer

... multivitamins may be associated with an increased risk for advanced or fatal prostate cancers, according ...nd no association between multivitamin use and the risk of localized prostate cancer. But they did find an increased risk of advanced and fatal prostate can...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

...nd cholesterol and determine whether someone is at risk of diabetes or heart disease," said lead study investigator Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological psychiatry. "With metabolomics, we can look at thousands of metabolites to attain a more finely tuned map of an individual's ...

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