The European Science Foundation said it will propose a comprehensive mental health research effort of a size similar to that of the Human Genome Project.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an update of a recall of Luigi's Bakery cookies sold by Stop & Shop supermarkets in New York in Connecticut.

Medicine & Health - Other

Dec 03, 2007 3 / 5 (1) 0

A potential HIV vaccine that recently failed a clinical trial in the United States may increase some people's chance of catching the virus that causes AIDS.

Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS

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The increasing number of women postponing childbirth until their 40s face greater risks during pregnancy and delivery, a California fertility specialist says.

Medicine & Health - Health

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Molecular technology developed by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor to probe extreme life forms in undersea hydrothermal vents has been used to identify unexpected bacteria strains in the lung fluid of Denver ...

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Dec 03, 2007 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

Parkinson disease (PD) is caused by the progressive degeneration of brain cells known as dopamine (DA) cells. Replacing these cells is considered a promising therapeutic strategy. Although DA cell–replacement therapy by ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 03, 2007 2.8 / 5 (16) 1

Global agriculture, already predicted to be stressed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 03, 2007 3.3 / 5 (21) 2

ong before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida’s coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change -- and eliminate ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 03, 2007 4.3 / 5 (17) 0

Scientists at the Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified nine genetic markers that can increase a person’s risk for schizophrenia. In a study published this week ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Dec 03, 2007 4.5 / 5 (6) 0

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that perchlorate—an industrial pollutant linked to thyroid ailments—is actively concentrated in breast milk. Their findings suggest ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Dec 03, 2007 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, the chemical that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench – and the same compound that researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center successfully have used to put mice into a state of ...

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Dec 03, 2007 4.8 / 5 (60) 2

Researchers have discovered natural genetic differences that might help predict the most effective antipsychotic drugs for particular patients with mental disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and drug addiction. ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Dec 03, 2007 5 / 5 (2) 0

People who undergo nonmyeloablative stem-cell transplants, or “mini transplants,” for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers have comparable outcomes regardless of whether they receive tissue-matched stem cells from ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Dec 03, 2007 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

Deforestation in tropical countries is often driven by the perverse economic reality that forests are worth more dead than alive. But a new study by an international consortium of researchers has found that the emerging market ...

Space & Earth - Environment

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