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Research shows smoking adds a decade to reproductive age of IVF patients

A major new Dutch study has found that smoking adds the equivalent of ten years to a 20-year-old subfertile woman's reproductive age and has a "devastating" impact on a couples' chances of having a live birth after IVF. Being overweight also seriously damages their chances. The harmful effects of smoking or being overweight were strongest among those women who had no obvious cause for not...

New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago

The most comprehensive scientific study of tiger habitats ever done finds that the big cats reside in 40 percent less habitat than they were thought to a decade ago. The tigers now occupy only 7 percent of their historic range. This landmark study, commissioned by the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation's Save The Tiger Fund and produced by some of the world's leading tiger scienti...

Survivors of childhood polio do well decades later as they age

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that years after experiencing childhood polio, most survivors do not experience declines greater than expected in their elderly counterparts, but rather experience only modest increased weakness which may be commensurate with normal aging. "Other researchers have suggested that polio is a more aggressive condition later in life, but we've actually found...

Chronic pain up almost 40 percent among US workers in past decade

Persistent, chronic pain has risen dramatically among full-time U.S. workers in the past 10 years, but workers today opt to go to their jobs rather than call in sick, leading to a growing trend of presenteeism ?a negative impact on work despite being physically present at the job. These data, released today, are from a 2006 national survey conducted by Harris Interactive® on "Pain in the Workplac...

New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water

The Atlantic Ocean doesn't receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all. Instead, comparing fathom for fathom, the Pacific and Indian oceans experience twice the amount of nitrogen fixing as the Atlantic, say researchers in the Jan. 11 issue of Nature. The title of an accompanying News and Views piece says it all, "Looking for N2 Fixation in all the Wron...

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The Why Files celebrates decade of science exploration

MADISON - In 1996, the World Wide Web was a desert. In a world awash in Web sites, it might be hard to remember that there was once a time when the Web was new and the number of sites was orders of magnitude smaller than it is today. But it was, and the realm of popular science on the Internet was no different. But that year, as part of a nascent, National Science Foundation-sup...

Thompson announces 'Decade of Health Information Technology'

MADISONU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Wednesday the first part of the government's plan to establish a national health information infrastructure in 10 years and bring electronic health records to every patient. <a href...

Dateline 2010: The decade in review

We all know how good 20/20 hindsight is. By using a little pro-active hindsight, we can imagine what this decade will look like from the vantage point of 2010. Like any other predictions, these forecasts are probably more useful for the thought they stimulate than for their absolute accuracy. The first decade of the 21st century started with a thud and lots of whimpering. To paraphrase...

The Biotech Concert Halls of the Decade of 2000

While the great rock concert halls and rock festivals of the 1960s have largely disappeared, the music culture generated by these musical Meccas continues (mostly in the form of Farewell Tours in basketball stadiums). The biotech culture of the wild 1980s and 1990s is celebrated every year in a series of concert hall venues by the investment banks that lead the charge in promoting the h...

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Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

A new research reveals for the first time one of the mechanisms by which malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, grows and spreads. This discovery may lead to another crucial weapon in the rather small arsenal of treatments available for this dangerous disease and offer the first hope for a new melanoma treatment target in decades. Study proves a role for an important gen...

Mentally Ill Man Spent Two Decades in Chains

55-year-old Mansharam has spent the last two decades in chains in a small village called Baoli village of Vidisha district in Madhya Pradesh//. His family said that Mansharam did not move at all and spent all the time sitting quietly. His brother Bhogchand says that Mansharam was chained to a post after he started attacking family members and other villagers. "We spent a lot of money to...

Bubonic Plague Confirmed In L.A. After More Than Two Decades

An unidentified woman was admitted on April 13 with a fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms. A blood test confirmed she had contracted the bubonic plague that is a bacterial disease. // This disease, known as the Black Death swept across Europe in the 14th century, killing up to one-third of the population. Health officials said it was the first confirmed human case in Los Ange...

Deaths Due To Alcohol Have doubled In A Decade

Reports have indicated that deaths that were related to drinking have more than doubled in Britain in just over a decade.// The data that was released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed has revealed that the numbers have risen from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,380 in 2004. The statistics also showed that the alcohol related deaths were of higher rates in men than wom...

Experts Say A Decade Needed To Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

Health experts meeting in Paris have concluded that at least one decade is needed to develop an effective vaccine for the deadly bird flu. Dr. David Fedson, former professor// of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine told BBC that this conclusion was nothing short of a catastrophe for the public. "We have had reverse genetics H5N1 viruses available to work with for...

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Tekturna, First New Type of High Blood Pressure Medicine in a Decade, Provides Additional Blood Pressure Reduction When Used With Diovan

* New study results show more patients receiving both Tekturna andDiovan reached target blood pressure goal compared to those takingeither agent alone EAST HANOVER, N.J., March 26, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Results froma new study have shown patients taking two Novartis cardiovascularmedicines -- the recently U.S.-approved drug Tekturna(R)(aliskiren) and the leading therapy Diovan(R) (valsarta...