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Changes in amino acids in the 1918 influenza virus cut transmission

...eak the disease cycle and possibly help reduce the risk for a potential pandemic. While flu pandemics occur every 10 to 40 years, the factors that lead to the emergence of pandemic viruses are not well understood, explains study co-author Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD, Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sina...

Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used

...way from raw chicken, for example ?to minimize the risk of illness. "All foods have the potential to contain pathogens ?all of them," Lee said. "There's no substitute for good food handling and preparation." ...

New compound prevents alcoholic behavior, relapse in animals by blocking stress response

...th a history of alcohol dependence, increasing the risk for relapse. Heilig and his team showed that MTIP blocked the activity of CRF in stressful situations without affecting its activity under ordinary circumstances. They studied rats that had been put through several cycles of heavy alcohol consump...

'Guardian of the genome' protein found to underlie skin tanning

...ivity that, by promoting tanning, can reduce one's risk of melanoma. "The number one risk factor for melanoma is an inability to tan; people who tan easily or have dark pigmentation are far ...

It's OK for men with high blood pressure to have a drink or two, new study finds

...on found that men who drank moderately had reduced risk of heart attacks. A glass of beer, a glass of win...mption of alcohol is known to be linked to a lower risk of heart disease. But, since alcohol can increase blood pressure, would the same be true for men who...

Woman's Day and For Womens of Science

...cates that methylmercury exposure may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in adult men. Increasing mercury concentrations are now being found in a number of fish-eating wildlife species in remote areas of the planet. The actual socioeconomic costs of mercury pollution are probab...

Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning

...cates that methylmercury exposure may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in adult men. Increasing mercury concentrations are now being found in a number of fish-eating wildlife species in remote areas of the planet. The actual socioeconomic costs of mercury pollution are probab...

Study examines risk of soft tissue sarcomas in hereditary retinoblastoma survivors

...l of the National Cancer Institute quantifies the risk of hereditary retinoblastoma survivors developing ...btypes of soft tissue sarcomas and finds that this risk persists for decades after the original retinoblastoma diagnosis. The findings emphasize the importa...

NT researchers discover breakthrough in malaria treatment

...f our region and puts many Australian travelers at risk of disease. Vivax malaria is becoming increasingl... region and relevance to areas of Africa where the risk of malaria is greatest. "Scientists and doctors wage a constant battle to develop and implement ...

Study finds surfing safer than soccer

...ound that competitive surfing has a relatively low risk of injury ?6.6 significant injuries per 1,000 hour...Hospital's Injury Prevention Center. "However, the risk of injury more than doubled when surfing in large waves or over an area with a hard bottom." The ...

Stress may help cancer cells resist treatment, research shows

...on for at least four years had an 18 percent lower risk of prostate cancer," said Kulik. "These drugs block the effects of epinephrine, which could explain the finding. Another study of men after radical prostatectomy reported increased mood disturbances, which are often associated with elevated stress h...

Drug-resistant bacterial infections serious complication after corrective eye surgery

... keratitis. All patients should be informed of the risk factors and warning signs of infectious keratitis and need to be advised to seek medical attention immediately if they develop signs or symptoms of infectious keratitis. A high degree of suspicion, coupled with prompt and appropriate treatment, may r...

Children who sleep more weigh less

...t to 30 percent, while it reduced older children's risk from 34 percent to 30 percent. Although the National Sleep Foundation recommends that children ages 5 to 12 get 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night and adolescents get 8 to 9 hours, the study found that on weeknights, 7-year-olds slept on average l...

Fighting influenza & co. with 40,000 blood samples

...ore, the flu vaccine is not as effective with this risk group as it is with younger people. The reason for...rrently spreading, how dangerous they are and what risk factors make an infection particularly likely,' Oliver Schildgen explains. In the meantime, a tas...

Hotspots of mercury contamination identified in eastern North America

...or that are already affected by it could raise the risk to people and wildlife that consume fish. There is...ill be needed to eliminate the element as a health risk to humans or to populations of loons. ...

Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes

...eration to implant a device, without raising their risk of sudden death. That would mean that Medicare cou... life every two years. The reductions in death risk were present even after the authors corrected for many other variables and differences between the t...

3-D ultrasound identifies women at risk for impending preterm birth

...o help physicians non-invasively identify women at risk for preterm birth, 3-D ultrasound was used to meas...e ultrasound measurements could identify a preterm risk of delivery within five days of the measurement. "Our results suggest that examining the fetal ad...

Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections

...illions of people already infected and at constant risk of genital warts and cancer. One study found that 75 percent of sexually active men and women under 50 have, or have had, an HPV infection, while 10,000 women annually develop cervical cancer, more than 90 percent of which is caused by HPV. Four tho...

Common gene version optimizes thinking -- but with a possible downside

...s thinking circuitry, yet also appears to increase risk for schizophrenia, a severe mental illness marked by impaired thinking, scientists at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered. The seeming paradox emerged from the first study to explore t...

Cocoa 'vitamin' health benefits could outshine penicillin

...ng on the Kuna people in Panama. He found that the risk of 4 of the 5 most common killer diseases: stroke,...tween high epicatechin consumption and a decreased risk of killer disease is so striking, it should be investigated further. It may be that these diseases a...

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