Public Library of Science
No link between economic growth and child undernutrition rates in India
Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct investments in health ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Clouds amplify ecological light pollution
The brightness of the nightly sky glow over major cities has been shown to depend strongly on cloud cover. In natural environments, clouds make the night sky darker by blocking the light of the stars but around urban centers, ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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4 new species of Zombie ant fungi discovered in Brazilian rainforest
Four new Brazilian species in the genus Ophiocordyceps have been published in the online journal PLoS ONE. The fungi, named by Dr. Harry Evans and Dr. David Hughes, belong to a group of "zombifying" fungi that infect ants a ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Effectiveness of expanding harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy in a mixed HIV epidemic
Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of expanding harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy in a mixed HIV epidemic: a modeling analysis for Ukraine
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Intensive adherence counseling with HIV treatment improves patient outcomes
Intensive adherence counseling around the time of HIV treatment initiation significantly reduces poor adherence and virologic treatment failure in sub-Saharan Africa whereas using an alarm device has no effect, according ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Rare HIV-positive individuals shed light on how body could effectively handle infection
Although untreated HIV infection eventually results in immunodeficiency (AIDS), a small group of people infected with the virus, called elite suppressors (0.5 percent of all HIV-infected individuals), are naturally able to ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Spinal fluid proteins distinguish lyme disease from chronic fatigue syndrome
Patients who suffer from Neurologic Post Treatment Lyme disease (nPTLS) and those with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome report similar symptoms. However unique proteins discovered in spinal fluid can distinguish those two groups ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Scientists create illusion of having 3 arms
(PhysOrg.com) -- How we experience our own bodies is a classical question in psychology and neuroscience. It has long been believed that our body image is limited by our innate body plan – in other words ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Wolves are able to follow a human's gaze
Following others' gaze direction is an important source of information that helps to detect prey or predators, to notice important social events within one's social group and to predict the next actions of ...
Feb 23, 2011 |
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New face of sleeping sickness epidemiology highlights need for new tools
Recent developments have rekindled hopes of eliminating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), more familiarly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem in those areas of sub-Saharan Africa where the disease is ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 22, 2011 |
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The association between unhealthy behaviors and socioeconomic status differs between countries
According to a study by Silvia Stringhini and colleagues from INSERM, (U1018 Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health) and University College London, (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), published ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Researchers discover how a common virus cheats death
(PhysOrg.com) -- Findings could arm medical scientists with the ability to shut down many viruses at an earlier stage.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Research predicts future evolution of flu viruses
New research from the University of Pennsylvania is beginning to crack the code of which strain of flu will be prevalent in a given year, with major implications for global public health preparedness. The findings will be ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Mio-Pliocene faunal exchanges and African biogeography: The record of fossil bovids
New fossil discoveries have provided a glimpse into the biogeographic configuration of Africa over the last seven million years.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Method of DNA repair linked to higher likelihood of genetic mutation
Accurate transmission of genetic information requires the precise replication of DNA. Errors in DNA replication are common and nature has developed several cellular mechanisms for repairing these mistakes. ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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