Fruit flies and test tubes open new window on Alzheimer's disease
A team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden have discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved in Alzheimer's disease from building up in the brain. Dr. Leila Luheshi, of the Department of Genetics at ...
Mar 15, 2010
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Keeping up with the neighbors speeds vaccine use
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted an analysis of worldwide use of Haemophilus influenza Type b vaccine (Hib) to determine what factors influenced a nation's adoption of the vaccine. ...
Mar 15, 2010
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Trauma of war doubles asthma risk among civilians
Living through the trauma of war seems to increase the risk of developing asthma, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
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Timing is (almost) everything: Memory enhanced when events occur at behaviorally relevant times
What determines whether a scene is remembered or forgotten? According to a study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, memory for visual scenes may not depend on attention level or what a scene contai ...
Mar 15, 2010
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Google expects Android to 'flourish' in China: CFO
Google expects its Android mobile operating system to "flourish" in China, Google's chief financial officer said Monday amid a two-month standoff with Beijing over Web censorship and cyberattacks.
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Young Britons see significantly more smoking in movies than US peers
Young Britons see significantly more on-screen smoking in movies than their US peers, finds research published ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Device advances interventional radiology treatment to clear blocked carotid arteries, prevent stroke
An important interventional radiology advancement—the use of a new cerebral protection device in combination with FDA-approved carotid stents in high-surgical-risk patients—provides a minimally invasive, safe and effective ...
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Parents may not understand or recall risks associated with children's surgery
Parents of children undergoing ear, nose and throat surgery do not appear to remember all of the risks of the procedures explained to them by clinicians, even when detailed surgical risk counseling and data sheets are used, ...
Mar 15, 2010
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Intel Announces X25-V 40GB Solid-State Drive for $125
Intel Corp. announced today a new addition to its award-winning lineup of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs): the Intel X25-V Value SATA SSD. Priced at $125, the 40 gigabyte (GB) drive is aimed at ...
Mar 15, 2010
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Quit, Then Relax: Smoking Cessation Helps Blood Vessels
(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients who successfully quit smoking tobacco rapidly improve their blood vessel function.
Mar 15, 2010
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New study could help predict suicidal behaviour in older adults
(PhysOrg.com) -- Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from Cambridge and Pittsburgh have found. ...
Mar 15, 2010
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Mother is ?more essential? to orphans than breadwinner father
(PhysOrg.com) -- The role of a mother in African families is even more essential to the well-being of a child than the role played by the breadwinner father, according to a study published in the latest issue ...
Mar 15, 2010
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British team trek to measure CO2 in Arctic Ocean
Three British explorers set out on a skiing expedition on Monday across 500 kilometers (310 miles) of floating sea ice to investigate rising acid levels in the Arctic Ocean that threaten marine life.
Mar 15, 2010
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Study assesses complications associated with nasal ventilation in newborns
More than 10 percent of newborns who receive oxygenation and ventilation using nasal continuous airway pressure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may experience complications inside or outside the nose, according ...
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