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Smoking rate has plummeted in New York City

...gov/mmwr/ . Beginning in 2002, and after a decade with no progress, New York City increased the tobacco t...omas R. Frieden -- “especially when they’re paired with a tobacco tax and smoke-free air legislation. With nearly a quarter of a million fewer smokers, New ...

Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention

Treatment with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and proph...on of avian flu in people who have been in contact with someone who is known, or suspected of being infected with the virus,” commented Professor Ira Longin...

Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life

...around them, serving as “hotspots” for ocean life, with thriving communities of seabirds above and a web o...covered that this process produces a “halo effect” with significantly increased phytoplankton, krill and seabirds out to a radius of more than two miles aro...

Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

Why does putting our feelings into words — talking with a therapist or friend, writing in a journal — help...ess, anger and pain less intense. Another study, with the same participants and three of the same members of the research team, combines modern neuroscien...

Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs

...an illnesses. But nobody has been able to come up with a feasible way of doing that." Dr. Romaine an...t is not part of the mushroom, and camouflaging it with regulatory elements from a mushroom gene. We then patch these genetic elements in the plasmid and in...

New vaccine prevents CMV infection and disease in mice

...of birth defects and a serious problem in patients with compromised immune systems. The body’s natural im...ully created and tested a vaccine in a mouse model with CMV that shows enormous promise for re-directing the body’s immune system, enabling it to fight the ...

St. Jude study shows genes play an unexpected role in their own activation

... could reduce blood levels of this sugar in people with diabetes,” Brindle said. “But at the same time, CREB could continue its other jobs without interruption.” ...

Understanding why C. difficile causes disease -- it's hungry

...iods of nutrient deprivation. This is consistent with the view that most disease-causing bacteria express their pathogenicity when they are hungry," says Abraham Sonenshein, professor at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University and at Tufts University School of Medicine, at...

Definitive evidence found of a swimming dinosaur

An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling...to maintain a straight path. "The dinosaur swam with alternating movements of the two hind limbs, a pelvic paddle swimming motion," said Costeur. "It is ...

A first -- Hebrew University scientist observes brain cell development in 'real time'

...g special microscopic imaging techniques, combined with virus gene technology, Dr. Mizrahi was able to dev...o the olfactory bulb of adult mice, providing them with a sense of smell. The development and maintenance of newborn neurons in this area was assessed by ti...

How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense

...the host cell's normal structure, which interferes with the cell's innate ability to engulf and destroy invading bacteria. "The question now becomes, why is Gaq targeted by YpkA"" ...

Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin

...oduce insulin from adult stem cells to help people with diabetes," said Dr. Randall J. Urban, senior autho...e/endocrinology Larry Denner, said that by working with adult stem cells rather than embryonic stem cells, doctors practicing so-called regenerative medicin...

Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage

... engineered to develop osteoarthritis like humans, with the same genetic predisposition that makes some mo...op the disease, the authors said. If all goes well with a follow-up study currently underway, researchers will apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...

Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin

...animal materials in the soil, and doesn’t interact with human or other large animal hosts for prolonged pe...oaches, elegantly choreographing their interaction with us and our defences. "C. botulinum takes the opposite approach. It lies in wait and, if it gets t...

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

... and actually applied it." Normally, Cdk5 works with another enzyme to break up a molecule called NR2B,...n the hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with learning. Hippocampus slices from the knock-out mice responded much more strongly to an electrical s...

Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

...also plan to breed commercial herds producing milk with the unique characteristics required to make a butt...fridge. They have already identified a cow, Marge, with the genes required to do this and say a commercial herd is likely by 2011. The milk is very low in s...

Ants show us how to make super-highways

...– jarring every bone in their body – will identify with this story. When it comes to rapid road repairs, t... plank’, said Powell. "We inserted planks drilled with different sizes of hole into the army ants’ trails to see how well different sizes of ant matched di...

'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death

"Virtual autopsy" performed with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can aid forensics teams in determining if a person has drowned, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology. MDCT is comparable to conventional autopsy in demonstrating airway froth and sedi...

Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO

...gency measures include: Providing patients with extra emergency drug supplies that can be taken in...linics in times of insecurity Establishing links with HIV care programs in neighboring regions, allowing displaced patients to continue to receive care ...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...likelihood of full or partial recovery of patients with acute spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to a s... to 400,000 people in the United States are living with SCI or spinal dysfunction. An estimated 7,800 new cases of SCI occur each year. Motor vehicle accide...

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