To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority ?but not all ?travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched. There are chinook salmon populations in Idaho in which an occasional male stays put and matures when only 6 inches long ?that is, he's able to fertilize eggs at even that diminutive size,...Columbia study shows widely used artery clearing device does not help patients during heart attack
Interventional cardiologists from Columbia University Medical Center have shown that a commonly used procedure to remove fatty debris from blocked arteries during a heart attack does not improve patient outcomes. The procedure, called distal microcirculatory protection, is commonly and successfully used during angioplasty in vein grafts and stenting in carotid arteries. The study, publish...Does vitamin C help prevent or treat the common cold? Maybe not, after all.
Linus Pauling's book Vitamin C and The Common Cold, published in 1970, was a bestseller and led many people to believe in the value of the vitamin for cold prevention and treatment. But an article in this month's PLoS Medicine reviewing all of the best clinical research on this topic, suggests that the public's enthusiasm for the vitamin may be unjustified. Robert M Douglas of the Australi...How exactly does the brain control breathing?
An understanding of exactly how the brain controls breathing is fundamental to the treatment of respiratory disorders. We know that breathing is an automatic rhythmic process that persists without conscious effort whether we are awake or asleep, but the question that has intrigued many scientists for well over 100 years is what maintains this almost fail safe vital rhythm throughout life?...Tornadoes put technology to work
The 26 F3-grade tornadoes that swept through the south central and western parts of the state set a record for the number of tornadoes here in o...Patent ruling doesn't tarnish Wisconsin's stem cell leadership
...What does business want from the schools? Some answers may be surprising
Those skills represent part of what Wisconsin business leaders want to see in graduates of the state's K-12, technical college, and university systems. However, a set of attributes loosely described as life skills and the ability to cope and learn may b...Sir Ken Robinson: Companies, kids "get" innovation, but K-12 doesn't nurture it
Robinson, a senior advisor to the in Los Angele...New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference
Wet palms, frequent changing of shirts - the result of excessive sweating - known as hyperhydrosis, is always a state of embarrasment. Botox, a purified form of Botulinum toxin type A, is now a new found solution for treating hyperhydrosis. Prescription antiperspirants and some pills might help to overcome this situation, but not all people are benefited from this situation. Hence for th...Heparin does not protect from recurrent heart attacks
Professor Mahaffey and his team from Duke Clinical Research Institute have found that either form of heparin (both low molecular weight and unfractionated)gives emergency// protection to heart attack patients by breaking the clots in blood flow to the heart reducing the risk of heart attacks for 24 hours. Though both the forms of heparin gives emergency treatment they are not found to avo...Estrogen Does Not Prevent Recurrent Strokes
Despite some past evidence that hormone replacement might lower stroke risk in older women, new research shows that estrogen therapy does not protect women from recurrent strokes and may instead carry some risks. The findings add to growing evidence that hormone replacement therapy does not have the cardiovascular benefits doctors once believed. // Many doctors have long thought hormo...Deep Sleep Doesn't Increase Memory
Students who go to bed early to be ready for a big test the next day might be missing the mark, according to a study to be released Friday by a San Fernando Valley researcher that finds a good night's sleep does not increase memory. // REM sleep is a deep sleep during which an individual's eyes dart rapidly under closed eyelids and the body is almost completely paralyzed except for...