Passive Smoking A Health Hazard Unnoticed
Being surrounded by smokers in public may be more damaging for your health that you might think say researchers , according to a new study that shows // there may be a greater risk posed to non-smokers from passive smoke or second-hand smoke in public than previous research has shown. Although p...A Common Cause Of Allergy That Goes Unnoticed
Research shows more than 6 million Americans are allergic to fish and shellfish and self-reported, physician diagnosed and/or ‘convincing allergy’ // to seafood is reported by 2.3 percent of the general population, which is about 6.5 million Americans.” In a recent study researchers found about...Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Heart Risk Factors in Kids
...edicine and epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, who led the other study. "We wanted to explore other health outcomes and noticed that nobody had described this outcome." The study she led looked at the overall incidence of low blood levels of vitamin D among young Americans a...Genes key to staph disease severity, drug resistance found hitchhiking together
...ability of S. aureus including community-acquired MRSAto cause disease. While screening S. aureus and S. epidermidis strains, Dr. Otto's group noticed that some strains produced one additional, previously unknown, PSM toxin. The researchers hypothesized that the toxin was somehow connected to drug re...New test for safer biomedical research results
... samples. Twenty-two percent of tested cultures were contaminated with one of the various types of the parasitic bacterium called mycoplasma. "What we noticed about the results," says Markus Schmitt, "was that contaminations were frequent in some laboratories, while others sent in cultures that were constant...Urologist and Allergist Explore Link Between Allergies and Interstitial Cystitis
...l bladder condition affecting as many as 8 million women and 1.5 million men in the United States. Patients and the providers who treat them have long noticed a correlation between allergies and IC. Recently, a urologist and allergist in Louisville, Kentucky, began to explore the link between these two chron...Brain Fitness Makes Boomers Age Younger
...h the Posit Science Brain Fitness Program more than doubled their processing speed, improved their memory and attention by approximately 10 years, and noticed significant improvement in their everyday cognitive activities . The study was published in the April issue of the Journal of the American G...Brain Training Improves Memory and Attention and the Effects Last
... this was very impressive because people got better at the tasks trained, those improvements generalized to standardized measures of memory and people noticed improvements in their lives. What this means is that cognitive decline is no longer an inevitable part of aging. Doing properly designed cognitive act...Study Finds Family History, Higher Incidence of Sunburns Associated With Rosacea
...e, she noted that these preventative measures could help lessen the severity of rosacea. One potential association with rosacea that Dr. Kimball noticed in her previous photo database analysis that was not found to be significant in her case-controlled study was a higher body mass index (BMI) in rosace...AAOMS Updates BRONJ Position Paper
...tion of bisphosphonates as a contributory factor to the condition was first reported by oral and maxillofacial surgeons about five years ago when they noticed an increase in the number of patients exhibiting the signs of ONJ. A review of these cases indicated that bisphosphonate therapy was a common thread. ...Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition
...t hyperpolarizes a cell is called an inhibitory current. In their experiments with projection neurons in the hippocampus and cerebellum, both groups noticed that a train of action potentials in these cells resulted in a temporary reduction in inhibitory currents caused by GABA-ergic interneurons. Since t...How Toxoplasma gondii gets noticed
Researchers provide insight into how Toxoplasma gondii , a common parasite of people and other animals, triggers an immune response in its host. The report will appear online on January 19th in The Journal of Experimental Medicine . A strong immune response spares T. gondii -infected hosts ...Carbon nanoparticles toxic to adult fruit flies but benign to young
...ng nanomaterials, Rand said. While two generations of fruit fly larvae showed no ill effects from eating carbon nanoparticles, the Brown scientists noticed that some of the particles ended up being stored in the flies' tissue. That means the nanoparticles could accumulate as they are passed up the food ch...La Jolla Institute discovers novel tumor suppressor
...a signaling pathway in asthma and other allergic diseases, so we began working with mice genetically engineered not to have that enzyme," he said. "We noticed that these mice developed a strange phenotype myeloproliferation and a variety of tumors including lymphomas and some carcinomas." Dr. Kawakami sa...Rodent size linked to human population and climate change
... You probably hadn't noticed -- but the head shape and overall size of rodents has been changing over the past century. A University of Illinois at Chicago ecologist has tied thes...Biologists rediscover endangered frog population
...an Jacinto Ranger District in the San Bernardino National Forest was monitoring declining creek water levels in Dark Canyon on Aug. 23, 2006, when she noticed many pools drying up, including one where frogs had been living. Concerned about losing the tadpoles, she called the Fish and Wildlife Service and the...SF State professor honored by President Obama for science mentoring
...ve the award during a reception at the White House this fall. Bayliss had already been teaching biology at SF State for nearly two decades when he noticed a shortage of students -- particularly underrepresented minorities -- in the sciences who went on to complete master's and doctoral degrees. He founde...Getting noticed in Genetown: Wisconsin biotech on display
Boston, Mass. - At last year's Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in Chicago, it wasn't intimidating for Wisconsin to be strutting its high-tech stuff. While Chicago is a business leader in almost every sense of the word, it's not well known for its biotech. Pharmaceutical companies...Practice makes perfect -- motor memory possible for neuroprosthetic control
...dual neurons involved in controlling the cursor. They could tell which cells were active when the cursor moved in specific directions. The researchers noticed that when the animals became proficient at the task, the neural patterns involved in the "solution" stabilized. There are three major features sci...Photos: FDA Approves 12-Month Labeling Update for EVOLENCE(R) Collagen-Based Facial Filler
...welling, redness, and pain. Other rare side effects include the development of small areas of firmness under the skin at the treated sites that may be noticed when the areas are pressed upon. EVOLENCE(R) has undergone rigorous testing and has been demonstrated to be safe and effective through clinical s...DNA duplication: A mechanism for 'survival of the fittest'
...more times. By means of sophisticated research techniques, they have dated these duplications as closely as possible. Yves Van de Peer's group then noticed that the most recent duplications occurred at approximately the same time in all of the plants. But, in terms of evolution, 'the same time' is relativ...TechConnect World 2009 Announces January 28th 'Last Call' for Speaker-Proposals
... of CTSI. "Whether you're an established company searching for technology solutions, or if you're a researcher looking to get you work published, and noticed by investors or partners, we provide the forum that helps bring the latest Clean-, Nano- and Bio-technology from research to commercialization." ...