Archive: 08/12/2008
Rare case explains why some infected with HIV remain symptom free without antiretroviral drugs
AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins say they have compelling evidence that some people with HIV who for years and even decades show extremely low levels of the virus in their blood never progress to full-blown AIDS and remain symptom ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Losing weight soon after type 2 diabetes diagnosis doubles positive outcomes
People who lose weight soon after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have better control of their blood pressure and blood sugar, and are more likely to maintain that control even if they regain their weight, according to a Kaiser ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Sound adds speed to visual perception
The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimuli—i.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeing—has been thrown into doubt in recent years. A new ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Greater response to placebo in children than in adults
In a systematic review of antiepileptic drugs, Philippe Ryvlin (of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, France) and colleagues show that children with drug-resistant partial epilepsy enrolled in trials seem to have a greater response ...
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Scientists call for trial of 'hen harrier ceiling'
As the grouse shooting season gets under way, two scientists involved in high-profile studies of hen harriers and red grouse at Langholm Moor in Scotland have called for field trials of a "ceiling" on harrier numbers in an ...
Biology /
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