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Whiter laundry and a surprising new treatment for kids' eczema

CHICAGO--- It's best known for whitening a load of laundry. But now simple household bleach has a surprising new role: an effective treatment for kids' chronic eczema. Chronic, severe eczema can mar a childhood. The skin disorder starts with red, itchy, inflamed skin that often becomes crusty...

New iPod listening study shows surprising behavior of teens

A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher. The study also showed that teen boys listen l...

10 Surprising Facts About Using Brain Training to Fight Dementia

Stay Brain-Active: It's National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ - - 'Use it or lose it' is a phrase originally coined to express the benefits of keeping physically fit, but it is equally valid when applied to brain fitness. Numerous studies hav...

The Largest and Most Comprehensive College Dating and Sex Survey Uncovers Surprising Behaviors of Students In and Out of the Bedroom

- OkCupid.com polled 10,000 college students from across the country to discover their attitudes and behavior on topics ranging from infidelity and promiscuity to pregnancy tests and abortion - NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- This survey, taken by 10,000 college students just released by O...

Part of the in-group? A surprising new strategy helps reduce unhealthy behaviors

Public health campaigns intended to reduce unhealthy behaviors like binge drinking and eating junk food often focus on the risks of those behaviors. But a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests a relatively simple but surprisingly effective strategy to improve consumer health. ...

Flip Flops, Mulch and No Coat: Study Identifies Surprising Barriers to Outdoor Activity for Kids in Child-Care Centers

First Phase of NHLBI-Sponsored Study on Children's Physical Activity in Child Care Focuses on Child Care Providers' Perspectives; Cincinnati Children's Researchers to Present Findings at Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting CINCINNATI, April 30 /PRNewswire/...

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Surprising in Medical Technology

Researchers Find Surprising Pattern of Influenza Spread in South America and Tropics

BETHESDA, Md., March 20, 2007--Researchers studying influenza transmission patterns in the Southern Hemisphere and in tropical areas, specifically Brazil, uncovered the unexpected finding that each season influenza travels from low populated regions near the equator to the more populated centers. ...

Regular Yoga Practice Is Associated With Mindful Eating

...minutes of moderate and/or strenuous physical activity per week. The average weight of the study participants was within the normal range - not surprising considering that the study sample intentionally consisted of people more physically active than the U.S. population in general. Body-mass index was lo...

Results From Drug Trials and New Risk Factors Announced at International Alzheimer's Conference

...rug Dimebon may improve cognitive function in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's, but how the drug produces these benefits remains unclear. In a surprising result from ICAD 2009, researchers found that treatment with Dimebon caused an increase in a brain protein, known as beta amyloid, in animal models of...

Fruitfly Model of a Neuropathic Disease Demonstrates Novel Role for Proteins in the Family of aTyr Pharma's Product Class

...l signaling functions for naturally occurring proteins resected from ancient proteins such as tRNA synthetases. This work in Drosophila illustrates a surprising disease-causing role for tRNA synthetases that is not related to the well-studied protein synthesis activities of these enzymes. Instead, in humans a...

Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Starts Advanced Breast-Cancer Risk-Assessment Program

... DALLAS, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Elizabeth Krause is a perfectly healthy 40-year-old woman. So it's surprising to learn she has oncologists, breast surgeons, radiologists and nurse practitioners watching over her like an army of cancer-killers, ready to pounce ...

Groundbreaking American Journal of Play from Strong National Museum of Play(R) Premiers July 2008

...euroscientist's assertion that the rising tide of ADHD among children might be slowed by starting each school day off with recess, to a psychologist's surprising findings on the role of imaginary child companions, to a historian's panoramic journey through the changing playscape of American childhood since pre-...

Surprising in Medical Products

Disney Eyewear

Description:... Disney eyewear designs with children in mind, making eyewear that is kid-tough with spring hinges and stay-put cable temples. Its not surprising that Disney eyewear was rated by Jobson Research as the best selling childrens collection from 1997-2003. Part of what makes this collection so popula...
Company:Marchon Eyewear Inc.

Endermologie® Anti-cellulite and Body Contouring Massage Machine

Description:...e and improving overall skin fitness. In its original form Endermologie® was used to rehabilitate scars, burns and damaged muscular tissue when a surprising side-affect was discovered - the reduction of cellulite and significant inch loss from the body....
Company:LPG Wellness

Surprising in Medical Dictionary

Tinea pedis

..... The first report of tinea pedis was in 1908 by Whitfield, who, ... Tinea pedis has afflicted humanity for centuries, so it is perhaps surprising ... well as the nails and are responsible for tinea pedis . ... 152 The Health Care of Homeless Persons - Part I - Tinea Pedis (Athlete's F...

Inflammation

...lls, or irritants. It is a protective attempt by the organism to remove the injurious stimuli as well as... Inflammation is a Secret Killer: The surprising link between inflammation and ... Inflammation is the body's first defense against infection, but when it goes ... inflammation n. The act...

Hepatorenal syndrome

...e complication of cirrhosis and end ... Hepatorenal syndrome . ... Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a major complication of patients ... not surprising that the syndrome can be reversed by the ... Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is renal failure that occurs in the face of advanced ... Physiolog...

Fallen Arches

...rward Guide: What are Fallen Arches ? ... Fallen arches , also called flat feet or pes planus, is a condition in which the ... It's not so surprising that so many people think they need arch supports. ... Everybody over 40 believes they have " fallen arches " ... fallen arches flat feet...

Surprising in Biological News

Research uncovers surprising lion stronghold in war-torn central Africa

MADISON Times are tough for wildlife living at the frontier between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Armies are reportedly encamped in a national park and wildlife preserve on the Congolese side, while displaced herders and their cattle have settled in an adjoining Ugandan park. ...

Study of islands reveals surprising extinction results

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) It's no secret that humans are having a huge impact on the life cycles of plants and animals. UC Santa Barbara's Steven D. Gaines and fellow researcher Dov Sax decided to test that theory by studying the world's far-flung islands. Their research, published this month in...

Study reveals surprising details of the evolution of protein translation

CHAMPAIGN A new study of transfer RNA, a molecule that delivers amino acids to the protein-building machinery of the cell, challenges long-held ideas about the evolutionary history of protein synthesis. In the study, researchers report that the dual functions of transfer RNA (reading the geneti...

Climate changing gas from some surprising microbial liaisons

The climate changing gas dimethyl sulphide (DMS) is being made by microbes at the rate of more than 200 million tonnes a year in the worlds seas, scientists heard today (Tuesday 1 April 2008) at the Society for General Microbiologys 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International...

Major collaboration uncovers surprising new genetic clues to diabetes

An international team that included scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today reported it has identified six more genetic variants involved in type 2 diabetes, boosting to 16 the total number of genetic risk factors...

The surprising power of the pill

Women who have tried to conceive using in vitro fertilization (IVF) methods are painfully aware that timing is of the essence. There are cancelled vacations, too many sick days taken from work, and the necessity to plan everything around the treatment. But thanks to a Tel Aviv University study...

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Surprising in Biological Technology

Proteomics Study Reveals That Genes Involved in Invertebrate Longevity Have Surprising Parallels in Humans.

SALT LAKE CITY, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Prolexys Pharmaceuticals announced today the publication of the discovery of genes that are likely to have a role in the aging process of humans. The findings result from research on the human equivalents of proteins from simple animals which confer long l...

What does business want from the schools? Some answers may be surprising

Madison, Wis. - More math? Sure. Science literacy? Of course. Exposure to foreign languages? Yes. 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 desc...

GPhA Calls Senate HELP Committee Action Disappointing for Countless Patients

...to affordable biogenerics, we will continue to fight in the House to ensure that a true balance is achieved between innovation and competition. It is surprising that in the wake of the recent Federal Trade Commission report explicitly stating that 12 years of exclusivity would discourage innovation, the HELP C...

The MedZilla Report: May 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

...han the proportion, has changed." Given the sweeping layoffs being announced by health care systems nationwide, as well as in Canada, it would be surprising to learn that more people are not looking for jobs.     As it becomes more difficult to secure available jobs, it has become more imp...

UCF team's advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases

...was able to accomplish this very feat, though, for the first time. "It was exciting because it was totally unexpected," says Hickman. The key to their surprising successes is one that other researchers in the field may find surprising, and one that makes their new model system better suited to advancing neuropa...

MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch

...ected to be protein-coding was actually small RNA (or sRNA), which can serve as a catalyst or regulator for metabolic pathways in microbes. "What's surprising to me is the abundance of novel sRNA candidates in our data sets," said Shi. "When I looked into the sequences that cannot be confidently assigned as ...

Surprising in Biological Products

EasyCyte Plus System from Guava Technologies

Description:...yone in the lab. Novice and experts alike will appreciate the latest addition to Guavas on-demand cytometry systemsthe Guava EasyCyte Pluseasy to use, surprising affordable, and very compact for higher throughput, multi-color detection. The system includes such features as absolute cell counts, 6 parameters (4 ...
Company:Guava Technologies

Surprising in Biological Definition

Archaea

... [Celsius] and under pressures of about 200 atmospheres...." Pyrococcus abyssi Home page at Genoscope References Howland, John L. The surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511183-4 Lake, J.A. (1988). Origin of the eukaryotic nu...

Biodiversity

...eed". "On the tree of life, based on analyses of small-subunit ribosomal RNA , visible life consists of barely noticeable twigs. This should not be surprising — invisible life had at least three billion years to diversify and explore evolutionary space before the 'visibles' arrived". Measures of ...

Charles Darwin

...36 and introduced him to Richard Owen , an up and coming anatomist who agreed to work on the fossil bones at his Royal College of Surgeons . Owen's surprising revelations of extinct giant rodents and sloths confirmed Darwin's place in the scientific establishment. With Lyell's enthusiastic backing Darwin rea...

Cloning

...ts and one third of them died young; Prometea took 328 attempts. With certain species such as dogs no successful clones have been created at all. A surprising development to do with aging resulted from finds that Dolly was apparently born old; she developed breasts at age six. Aging of this type is thou...

Evolutionary developmental biology

...er. Evolutionary developmental biology has arisen as a response to these growing trends. Development and the origin of novelty One of the more surprising and perhaps, counter-intuitive, results of such research in evolutionary developmental biology done in this period, is that both the diversity of body...

Genomics

...d as a term for studying the proteome. Comparative genomics Main article: Comparative genomics Comparison of genomes has resulted in some surprising biological discoveries. If a particular DNA sequence or pattern is present among many members of a clade , that sequence is said to have been conse...

Surprising in Biological Dictionary

Z-DNA

...ining alternating purine ... Under physiological conditions, Z-DNA formation is a dynamic process, largely ... Twenty years after visualizing a surprising left-handed form of the DNA double helix, Massachusetts Institute of ... DNA, dubbed Z-DNA by the ... Z-DNA is stabilized in vivo by negative...

Repetitive DNA

... are also fundamental to the cooperative molecular ... Here, we review the surprising abundance of repetitive DNA in ... RepeatScout identified 31 highly ... Encyclopedia information on Repetitive DNA ... Repetitive DNA . A surprising portion of any genome consists not of genes or structural elements, ... ...

Recombination

...ary with 11 pages of encyclopedia entries, essays, summaries, research information, and more. ... Search " Recombination " ... It may seem somewhat surprising that bacteria can undergo recombination . ... This promotes recombination , as long as the DNA taken up is sufficiently ... ...

Parthenogenesis

...But this success has ... This process is called parthenogenesis , and the offspring are clones of the ... Just what is " parthenogenesis ? ... surprising that parthenogenesis has not ... But step one could be parthenogenesis , while regulations for the other forms of ... The offspring produced b...

Complementary sequences

... or series, comprise a pair of ... Beatty Sequences , Complementary sequences , Proofs, the essence of Mathematics ... Beatty's theorem shows a surprising way to generate such complementary sequences . ... ... are brought together during transcription by complementary intronic sequences . ... ...

Chromosome

...on about chromosome in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. chromosome 5, ... In hindsight, it seems surprising that the number of human chromosomes was not determined until 1956. After all, cytologists had been studying chromosome behavior ... Informat...