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Low oxygen likely made Great Dying worse, greatly delayed recovery

The biggest mass extinction in Earth history some 251 million years ago was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years. New research by two University of Washington scientists suggests that a sharp decline in atmospheric oxygen levels was likely a major reason for both the elevated extinction rates and the v...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

The new surgical assistant at the University of North Carolina Hospitals arrived in February sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for morbid obesity. The new arrival is a robotic machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, manufact...

Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages

Dinosaurs seem bigger than life ?big bones, big mysteries. So it's a delicious irony that the next big answers about dinosaurs may come from small ?very small ?remains. "Molecules are fossils, too," said Michigan State University zoologist Peggy Ostrom. "We've shown that proteins survive in very old fossils, and proteins can tell us about diseases, about where prehistoric animals fit in t...

Medical experts: US unlikely to have enough vaccines to stop avian flu

A group of medical experts who attended a national avian flu conference last fall believe there is little chance the United States will be able to manufacture and stockpile enough vaccine or antiviral medication to stop a bird flu pandemic should the virus mutate into a form that can be spread easily from human to human, according to a survey led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The...

Parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to have less summer rain

Parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to experience a significant summer drying trend by the middle of this century, UCLA atmospheric scientists will report in the April 18 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Their research is based on an analysis of 10 global climate computer simulations, from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research,...

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WARF is likely to hold on to stem cell patent rights

A look at the facts in the dispute over three important stem cell patents - and the history behind similar disputes - sho...

Katrina's destruction likely to speed up electronic healthcare records adoption

Years of efforts to promote electronic healthcare records have led to some adoption of the technology but there's been little sense of urgency toward that adoption. Then Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, destroying countless medical records as part of her path of destruction. Katrina, and her followup Rita, may not only have changed the landscape of the Gulf region...

Biotech Alliance pushes ahead in SE Wisconsin with likely state funding

A drive to unite the research efforts of southeast Wisconsin received a boost late last week with an approved proposal for $2.5 million in research capital. The Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance voted 15-1 to provide funding to the Biomedical Technology Alliance, an organization of five universities encouraging collaboration in southeast Wisconsin. The funding, proposed by <a href...

Wisconsin chooses likely vendors for BadgerNet 2

The BadgerNet alliance proposes to build and manage the network dubbed BadgerNet 2 for the state as a replacement for...

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Fibroids unlikely to Turn Cancerous

Women should get a second medical opinion if they are told to consider a hysterectomy because they have fibroid tumors that could become cancerous.//'It is very, very rare that a fibroid tumor could become cancerous,' said Dr. Nelson Teng, chief of gynecologic oncology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.Fibroids are benign growths in the uterus which sometimes cause discomfort,...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

An English expert says that certain over-the-counter pain killers should carry warnings that they can increase the risk of miscarriage. The comments follow a study by Danish reseacher Gunnar Lauge Nielsen and colleagues published in this week's British Medical Journal which studied the effect on women of taking strong non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like indomethacin (ibuprofen)....

Blood clots likely in long travel

A new study has found that the risk of developing a blood clot in the lung - called a pulmonary embolism - increased with the duration of air travel.Like deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolisms are blood clots that are believed to be associated with long-distance travel. Frederic Lapostolle and colleagues, from Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny near Paris, studied all cases of pulm...

Smokers children likely to develop caries

Children whose parents smoke are more prone to develop dental caries, according to a study from the University of Rochester's Strong Children's Research Center.//"This study should serve as a pragmatic wake-up call to parents who still don't see the danger in smoking around their children," said pediatrician Andrew Aligne, M.D., 3,873 children participated in the survey. The childre...

Anxiety likely to affect the foetus

Research suggests that anxiety during pregnancy can increase a mother's risk of having a hyperactive child. A study indicated that women who were very anxious// in the last three months of pregnancy had children with more behavioural problems. Lead researcher Professor Vivette Glover, of Imperial College, London, told that this only applied to women who had extreme anxiety, and were f...

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Study Shows Children With ADHD Who Start on Strattera are More Likely to Change Therapies

Prime Therapeutics recommends clinical utilization managementprograms ST. PAUL, Minn., April 10, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacy benefitmanager Prime Therapeutics (Prime) today announced the results of astudy on the utilization of Strattera(R) (atomoxetine) for treatingattention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. Thestudy found that children who start on Strattera were 4.2 t...
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