What killed Naval hero John Paul Jones?
John Paul Jones, born as John Paul in Scotland in 1747, is linked to the United States Navy's earliest traditions of heroism and victory. He first went to sea at age 13, became a captain at 21 and was a spectacularly successful officer during the American Revolution. Despite his naval prowess, Jon...Solid tumor cells not killed by radiation and chemotherapy become stronger
DURHAM, N.C. Because of the way solid tumors adapt the body's machinery to bring themselves more oxygen, chemotherapy and radiation may actually make these tumors stronger. "In a sense, these therapies can make the tumor healthier," said Mark W. Dewhirst, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor of radiation ...New Genetic Technology IDs Virus That Killed Transplant Recipients
Could be used to help against many illnesses that evade diagnosis, experts say WEDNESDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A new genetic-sequencing technology has enabled the fastest-ever identification of a deadly virus, one that killed three transplant patients, researchers report. The ...Cancer Killed Almost 8 Million Worldwide in 2007
12 million new cases -- many preventable -- were diagnosed this year, American Cancer Society reports MONDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer continues to cut a deadly swath across the globe, with the American Cancer Society reporting 12 million new cases of malignancy diagnosed wo...Study: Most young violent offenders in two NYC neighborhoods have seen someone killed
COLUMBUS, Ohio More than three-quarters of young violent offenders interviewed in two poverty-stricken New York City neighborhoods had seen someone die in a violent incident, a new study reveals. About half of them (51 percent) had been shot themselves and 78 percent said they had a close frie...Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm
Sanitary workers cleaning septic tanks trapped by methane gas is commonplace in developing countries like India. It is now catching up in the West too. Fiver persons fell victims to the deadly methane emanating from a manure pit in a dairy farm in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, US Monday eve...Mothers of Children Killed in Fire Charged With Manslaughter
Two mothers of Pittsburgh in USA, charged with causing involuntary manslaughter of their five children, have turned themselves in. They had gone to a bar, leaving the children unattended. Wearing a T-shirt that read "Mommy Loves You" and "God Loves You More," Shakita Mangham, 25, arrived ...1 Billion People to Be Killed by Smoking
If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, WHO said, unless the countries take serious action to prevent it . Critics of smoking ban argue that people are assuming that by putting one cigarette to your lips will imm...Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference
...kens more than two million people every year. The lecture is named after Mary Lou Clements-Mann, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University who was killed in a plane crash in 1998 along with her husband, Jonathan Mann, founding director of the World Health Organization's global AIDS program. Steven ...USAID Provides Malaria Assistance to Zimbabwe
...l Spraying shortens the lifetime of mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. When a mosquito lands in a home that has been sprayed, the mosquito is killed or its life is shortened so that it cannot pass parasites from one person to another. USAID provided emergency funding of $200,000 along with t...Nanoemulsion Kills Highly Resistant Bacteria Found in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis
...ant and panresistant (completely resistant) bacteria obtained from the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis. All strains of bacteria except two were killed by a concentration representing one-sixteenth the nanoemulsion formulation that has been used by NanoBio in recent clinical trials to treat skin infec...Winning the War on Cancer: The Critical Role of Radiation Oncology
...tion to view inside the body, radiation treatment delivers a targeted high dose of radiation to kill tumors. With modern approaches, cancer cells are killed with reduced side effects. "Thanks to exciting developments in radiation oncology, many of my patients avoid radical surgery and often emerge f...SARS Vaccine Achieves Neutralizing Responses in First U.S. Human Trial
...gdong Province of China in late 2002, the disease spread rapidly through the summer of 2003 and reached epidemic status, affecting more than 8,000 and killed more than 900 people in 25 countries before it was contained. SARS affects the respiratory system and gastrointestinal tract as well as other internal...Multi-Pronged Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Regimen to be Studied in Melanoma Patients
...therapeutic cancer vaccines may help inhibit the progression of existing cancers, prevent recurrence of cancers, or destroy remaining cancer cells not killed by prior treatments. For more information on this program visit http://www.cancervaccines.com . About sanofi-aventis Sanofi-aventis, a leading ...Video: Sanford Health's Journey to Cure Type 1 Diabetes Receives Major Boost
...gin making their own insulin again." Regeneration research focuses on triggering the body to re-grow the insulin-producing beta cells that have been killed by the autoimmune response. It also works to prevent destruction of the newly regenerated cells by the same autoimmune reaction. The intent of the San...Far more than a meteor killed dinos
There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period. The C...'Dead zone' summer killed billions of ocean state mussels
Fish kills, foul odors and closed beaches hit Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay during the summer of 2001. The culprit was hypoxia, or oxygen depletion, which literally suffocates sea life. While some evidence of this "dead zone" could be seen on the bay's surface, Brown University ecologists went un...Study shows big game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths
Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a University of Florida researcher. Determining whether the first arrival of hum...Scientists decoding genomic sequences of H1N1 using isolates from outbreak in Argentina
...ll allow the team to both characterize severe versus mild cases, as well as determine how the virus evolved at different points in time. Swine flu has killed 165 people in Argentina, more than any nation with the exception of the U.S. Any significant changes in the virus might influence the effectiveness of...University of Minnesota research leads to new technology to protect human health
... of melamine contamination in food. Melamine is an industrial chemical that killed six Chinese children and hospitalized 150,000 last year after it was added ...easing the apparent protein content. For example, melamine-tainted pet food killed nearly 1,000 U.S. pets during one episode in 2007. ...'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales
...d South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is threatening coastal stoc...arkets suggests that the number of whales actually killed through this "bycatch whaling" may be equal to that killed through Japan's scientific whaling program about ...U of Minnesota-led study finds that hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations
...m of conservationists. The study looked at numbers of lions and cougars killed by hunters over the past 15 to 25 years in Africa and the western United St...ck bears, by contrast, appear to be thriving despite the thousands of bears killed by hunters. The study results point to the need for new approaches to pr...Duke, Harvard researchers to monitor bonobo reintroduction
...ronically, this peaceful ape only lives in one country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been torn apart by almost a decade of war that has killed more than five million people, making it the bloodiest war since World War II. The reintroduction of wild-born orphans rehabilitated and cared for ...Caribbean coral reefs flattened
...y flat, compared with 20 per cent in the 1970s. There have been two major periods of reef flattening. The first occurred when a widespread disease killed about 90 per cent of the Elkhorn and Staghorn corals in the late 1970s. The second period has been underway more recently and is thought to have been ...Siberian jays use complex communication to mob predators
...s but also other family group living animals outwit their predators with the help of their cognitive abilities. Lowering the risk of relative of being killed benefits the propagation of the own genes through kin selection. In contrast, animals that live in anonymous groups rather rely on the selfish notion ...High-Tech 'Smart' Face Mask Helps Hong Kong Families Combat Swine Flu
...nt to 50 times the amount contained in a normal sneeze. (The H1N1 swine flu is a strain of the Influenza A virus.) More than 99.9% of the viruses were killed after less than one minute. Similar tests were conducted on other key pathogens, with similar results. When the BioMask(TM) was tested in terms of all...Australia: Face Mask That Kills Swine Flu Readied for Australian Pandemic Fight
...proximately 1,000 times the amount contained in a normal sneeze. (Swine flu is a strain of the Influenza A virus.) More than 99.9% of the viruses were killed after less than one minute. Similar tests were conducted on other key pathogens, with similar results. When the BioMask was tested in terms of all the...Thomson Reuters Examines Highly Cited Research in Bioterrorism
...s; this paper has been cited nearly 500 times. The second most cited paper, entitled "Anthrax," was published two years before anthrax-tainted mail killed five people in 2001; this paper has now been cited more than 400 times. The third most-cited paper, published in 1999 and garnering more than 375 cit...First H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Replikins-Based, Is Ready Now for Testing Worldwide
... H1N1 last year the company detected the highest concentrations of these specific regions ever seen, except for those from the 1918 flu pandemic which killed tens of millions of people. To date, no other method has been able to predict whether and what strain of a given organism will threaten a human or ani...H1N1 Influenza "Swine Flu" Peptide Vaccine Now Available For Testing Worldwide
... H1N1 last year the company detected the highest concentrations of these specific regions ever seen, except for those from the 1918 flu pandemic which killed tens of millions of people. To date, no other method has been able to predict whether and what strain of a given organism will threaten a human or an...Biotechnology Company Provided Advance Warning of Mexican H1N1 "Swine Flu" Virus Outbreak
...een, except for those from the 1918 pandemic which killed millions of people. Today, the company is activel...een, except for those from the 1918 pandemic which killed millions of people. Today, the company is activel...les, except for those from the 1918 pandemic which killed tens of millions of people. Today, the company is...Patent for Making Combination Chemotherapy Work Better
...arrest and aggregate HER1 overexpressing cancer cells in the G1-Phase. This results in S-Phase depletion, greatly reducing the number of cancer cells killed by the S-Phase cytotoxic." The patent provides a crucial modification to the protocols by adding existing drugs to provide S-Phase enrichment at the ...DNA duplication: A mechanism for 'survival of the fittest'
...olcanic activity - produced widespread fires and clouds of dust and smoke that obstructed sunlight for a long period of time. These adverse conditions killed off about 60% of the plant species and numerous animals, including the dinosaurs. Only the most well-adapted plants and animals were able to survive t...Ecologists propose first prevention for white-nose syndrome death in bats
...-nose syndrome (WNS) is a poorly understood condition that, in the two years since its discovery, has spread to at least seven northeastern states and killed as many as half a million bats. Now researchers have suggested the first step toward a measure that may help save the affected bats: providing localiz...