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for the Week of July 18 to July 25, 2010
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Posted 2010-07-24:
- Microbicide containing engineered bacteria may inhibit HIV-1
- Chokeberry extract found to regulate weight gain, blood glucose, and inflammation in rats
- Stem cells from surgery leftovers could repair damaged hearts
- Diabetes monitoring device benefits not just people but dogs and other animals, too
- Academic language impedes students' ability to learn science, expert argues
Posted 2010-07-24:
- Cancer-metabolism link runs deep in humans, novel network algorithm suggests
- Medicine from moss: Bioreactor technique may offer hope to people with age-related blindness
- Can I buy you a drink? Genetics may determine sensitivity to other people's drinking behavior
- How do cells die? Biophotonic tools reveal real-time dynamics in living color
- Nanoparticles as destructive beacons to zap tumors
- Simple screening test reduces invasive examinations for suspected bowel disease
- Transparency through open notes: Risks and rewards of inviting patients to review their medical records
- Can chaos theory help predict heart attacks?
- Autism has unique vocal signature, new technology reveals
- Identification of a gene essential to newborn babies' first breath
- A blood test for depression?
- More time spent sitting linked to higher risk of death; Risk found to be independent of physical activity level
- Scientists discover how deadly fungal microbes enter host cells
- Misuse of anesthesia could cause hepatitis virus transmission
- Adults recall negative events less accurately than children, study finds
- Scientists confirm role for mysterious cell component -- the nucleolinus
- Abnormal cells in blood tied to lung cancer: Circulating aberrant cells increase as non-small cell lung cancer progresses
- Structural brain alterations in patients with irritable bowel syndrome discovered
- Math model of colon inflammation singles out dangerous immune cells
- Link between childhood physical abuse and heart disease
- Salmonella contaminated pork may pose health risk for humans
- Protein important in diabetes may also play a key role in heart disease, other disorders
- Cannibinoids offer novel treatment for pain in sickle cell disease, study suggests
- More than half of all ACL reconstructions could be avoided, Swedish study finds
- Inequalities in mortality in Britain today greater than those during 1930s economic depression, study finds
Posted 2010-07-23:
- Could diabetes be in your bones? Link between metabolic disease, bone mass; Breakdown of bone keeps blood sugar in check
- Smog might trigger cell death in the heart, study finds
- Early HAART during TB treatment boosts survival rate in people co-infected with HIV and TB, study finds
- Once a delinquent, always a delinquent? Not necessarily
- Cutting fat and calories can lower cancer risk in dogs and people
- African ancestry linked to high-risk breast cancer, study finds
- Customers less tolerant of employee rudeness than incompetence
- Gene linked to aging also linked to Alzheimer's
- Vitamins needed to help celiacs stave off bone disease, researchers find
- Genetic link to children’s emotional problems precipitated by bullying
- Toxic trio identified as the basis of celiac disease
- Gulf oil dispersants unlikely to be endocrine disruptors and have relatively low cell toxicity, tests find
- 'Runaway' development implicated in loss of function of the aging brain
- Novel anti-diabetes mechanism uncovered: Findings could lead to next generation of improved therapies
- Recreational pool disinfectants linked to health problems
- Quitting smoking may minimize harmful bacteria and replenish healthy bacteria
- Brain scans may help guide career choice
- Stem cells for eating and sex pinpointed
- Subtle thyroid problem triples the risk of placental separation in birth, study finds
- Summer reading is key to maintaining or improving students' reading skills
- Muscular heart failure patients may have a better chance at survival, study suggests
- Students design early labor detector aimed to prevent premature births
- HIV vaccines may induce HIV antibodies in trial participants, can cause false-positive test result
- Video game processors help lower CT scan radiation
- Marriage patterns drive fertility decline
- Valproic acid shown to halt vision loss in patients with retinitis pigmentosa
- Studies gauge techniques for measuring breast density -- a predictor of cancer
- Family chats can help students learn, especially in richer countries, study shows
- Kids could get more whole grains from after-school snacks, study finds
- Study describes health effects of occupational exposures in Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers
Posted 2010-07-22:
- First stages of tissue production in human embryonic stem cells isolated
- Need for protection against ticks that carry Lyme disease confirmed by new research
- New genomics-based approach to understand origin of cancer subgroups
- Children of older women appear vulnerable to the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure
- Engineered stem cells may limit heart attack damage, improve function
- Sepsis and septic shock more common than heart attacks or pulmonary blood clots after general surgery, study finds
- Afraid of a broken heart? Feeling insecure in relationships may predispose people to later cardiovascular problems, says research
- Do cleaning products cause breast cancer?
- Trauma patients undergoing emergency operations may receive transfusions of their own blood
- Nasal zinc gels may be associated with loss of sense of smell, study finds
- Nanoparticles plus adult stem cells demolish plaque, study finds
- Natural substance NT-020 aids aging brains in rats, study finds
- Why does everything look gray when you feel blue?
- Bone cells' branches sense stimulation, when to make new bone
- Children have a negative impact on physical activity among individuals with heart disease, study finds
- Getting angry can help negotiations in some cultures, hurt it in others
- New way to target viruses could make antiviral drugs more effective
- New genetic marker of ovarian cancer risk discovered
- Practice makes perfect? Consumers overestimate their ability to learn prior to purchase
- Computer program predicts MRSA bacteria's next move
- Key pathway in end-stage prostate cancer tumor progression blocked
- No pain, no gain? Concrete thinking increases consumer confidence
- Probiotics use in mothers limits eczema in their babies, study finds
- Cells' grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments
- Scientists identify key molecular regulator of cardiac hypertrophy
- Consumers love underdogs
- Toronto homeless report barriers to health care
- Lack of insurance coverage remains obstacle to wider colorectal cancer screening with CT colonography
- Every action has a beginning and an end (and it's all in you brain)
- HIV in people who use drugs: Need to focus on conditions of health delivery that create treatment interruptions
- Educational leadership linked to student achievement in large U.S. study
- Childhood sexual abuse and social shaming linked to health issues later
Posted 2010-07-21:
- Prolonged mobile phone use may be linked to tinnitus
- Preterm births higher among overweight and obese mothers, study finds
- Data presentation and consumer confidence
- Healthy families, religious involvement buffer youth against risk factors related to drug abuse
- How music training primes nervous system and boosts learning
- Asthma and eczema sufferers have a lower risk of developing a cancer, study finds
- Next generation surgical robots: Where's the doctor?
- Obesity in early adulthood associated with increased risk of psoriatic arthritis
- Children's school performance tied to family 'type'
- Animal connection: New hypothesis for human evolution and human nature
- Widely used chemicals linked to ADHD in children
- Underwater sponges and worms may hold key to cure for malaria
- Image-processing algorithm reduces CT radiation dose by as much as 95 percent
- ‘The friend of my enemy is my enemy’: Virtual universe study proves 80-year-old theory on how humans interact
- Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline
- Air travel no 'significant threat' to cardiovascular health, says new guidance
- Health impacts of Deepwater Horizon disaster on coastal Louisiana residents surveyed
- Foreign accents make speakers seem less truthful to listeners, study finds
- Reprogrammed cells 'remember,' retain characteristics of their cells of origin
- Bridging the gender gap: Combined technologies offer promise for detecting colon cancer in women
- Bioinformatics used to detect rogue use of synthetic biology
- Soldiers with brain injuries at higher risk of epilepsy decades later, study finds
- New test to predict success of IVF treatment
- Increased waistline and high triglyceride levels indicate risk of coronary heart disease, study finds
- Of bugs and brains: Gut bacteria affect multiple sclerosis
- Microbicide gel: Reduced risk of HIV and herpes infections in women, study shows
- Unearthing King Tet: Key protein influences stem cell fate
- Tuning cocaine addiction
- When climate change becomes a health issue, are people more likely to listen?
- Stem cells made by reprogramming hold onto their past
- Cerebral bioelectricity analysis detects epilepsy
- Breast cancer cells regulate multiple genes in response to estrogen-like compounds
- Cash rewards with counseling could help prevent STIs
- Little action on recommendations aimed to curb college drinking, researchers find
- Women, minorities more likely to see doctor of choice in emergency room, study finds
- Drinking trends increase for whites, blacks and Hispanics
- Genders of alcohol-dependent parents and children influence psychopathology in the children
- Guided Care improves physician satisfaction with patient/family communications, study finds
- In-store displays: How do consumers perceive pricing?
Posted 2010-07-20:
- Discovery suggests possible treatment strategy for aggressive leukemias
- Prostate cancer risk variant found to be in a functional DNA sequence linked with disease
- Point-of-sale advertising major cause of teen smoking, study shows
- Cultured brain cells taught to keep time
- How technology may improve treatment for children with brain cancer
- New findings on troubling side effects of Parkinson’s medication
- Battlefield psychologists investigate stress in combat and after
- Melting DNA into a barcode
- What protects farm children from hay fever? Protective substance may slumber in cowshed dust
- First concrete evidence that women are better multitaskers than men
- Vaccine-delivery patch with dissolving microneedles eliminates 'sharps,' boosts protection
- New principle discovered for how muscle pain is signaled
- Obesity is associated with reduced sensitivity to fat
- Major league pitchers 34 percent more likely to be injured than fielders, new study finds
- Greater obesity in offspring of nursing mothers consuming a high-fat diet
- How cranberry juice fights bacteria at the molecular level
- HIV/AIDS treatment curbs spread of HIV among drug users, study finds
- Part of the brain that tracks limbs in space discovered
- A high-fat diet alters crucial aspects of brain dopamine signaling
- No heart benefit from Omega-3 in women with type 1 diabetes
- Role of RNA polymerase in gene transcription demonstrated
- Peer drug use may increase a genetically susceptible individual's tendency to use drugs
- Bright stars of the brain regulate breathing
- More than half the world's population gets insufficient vitamin D, says biochemist
- Gene responsible for population disparity in kidney failure, study finds
- Knowledge gaps for 20 suspected carcinogens outlined
- Media coverage responsible for growth in vaccination rates
- Work-related deaths in England and Wales have almost halved in 20 years, study finds
- Physicians can perform poorly when patients need special care, study suggests
- Socioeconomic status not associated with access to cochlear implants, study finds
- Melanoma rates among minorities in Florida differ from national trends
Posted 2010-07-19:
- Researchers find way to make cancer cells more mortal
- Novel microfluidic HIV test is quick and cheap
- Anti-cancer effects of broccoli ingredient explained
- Making virtopsies a reality: New research project to develop reliable and cost-effective virtual autopsies
- How memory is disrupted in those with disease linked to learning disabilities
- Are teen binge drinkers risking future osteoporosis?
- Concentration, timing and interactions are key when it comes to dietary compounds
- New recommendations issued for use of cetuximab in colon cancer therapy
- Cell signaling classification system gives researchers new tool
- Secret to sniffing out a safe supper
- Universal flu vaccine moving closer
- Scientists identify molecular predictor of prognosis for pancreatic cancer patients
- Does the existing standard of care supply energy sources to brain tumor cells?
- Researchers envision better disease surveillance to improve public health
Posted 2010-07-18:
- Redundant genetic instructions in 'junk DNA' support healthy development
- Model predicts individual's vitamin D needs
- The image in the mirror and the number on the scale both count
- New toxin may be key to MRSA severity
- Nature's insect repellents discovered
- Investigators perfect new version of blood-regulator thrombin
- Abnormal brain activity in migraineurs is not restricted to attacks
Posted 2010-07-17:
- Improving clinical use of stem cells to repair heart damage
- Cancer drugs may help stop major parasite
- New method of tissue banking makes gene analysis more practical for lung cancer
- Studies explore effects of war on former child soldiers
- Mice cages can alter rodents’ brains and skew research results, study finds
- New discovery brings hope to treatment of incurable blood cancer
- Less salt for everybody
- Apathy and depression predict progression from mild cognitive impairment
- Genetic ancestry data improve diagnosis in asthma and lung disease
- Why walking flat-footed hurts habitual high-heels wearers: The effects of wearing high heels on women's legs
- Arthroscopic treatment of common hip problem allows athletes to return to play, study finds
- New radiation mechanism may ward off cancer, oil spills and terrorism
- Young children especially vulnerable to effects of 9/11
- Human sperm gene is 600 million years old, scientists discover
- Stroke risk temporarily increases for an hour after drinking alcohol, study finds
- Hungry cells, on a binge, know their own limits
- Researchers cut years from drug development with nanoscopic bead technology
- Meditation helps increase attention span
- Skin cells could help discover cause of Parkinson's disease
- DNA discovery opens new door to develop tools, therapies for hereditary cancers
- Toward making 'extended blood group typing' more widely available
- Using domestic spoons to give children medicine increases overdose risk, doctors warn
- Rescuing fruit flies from Alzheimer's disease
- Insight into why low calorie diet can extend lifespan -- even if adopted later in life
- Wood smoke exposure multiplies damage from smoking, increases risk of COPD
- New treatment for crippling diabetic Charcot foot
- How psychiatric risk gene disrupts brain development
- Mechanism for link between high fat diet and risk of prostate cancer and disorders unveiled
- Luteolin stars in study of healthful plant compounds
- 'Tough love' no good for obesity interventions, study finds
Posted 2010-07-16:
- First malaria-proof mosquito: Genetic manipulation renders them completely immune to the parasite
- How human immune response to virus is triggered at the atomic level
- Database for personalised cancer treatment: Largest study of genomes and cancer treatments releases first results
- Gene associated with kidney disease in African-American population identified
- Sri Lankan children affected by war, tsunami, daily stressors
- New clues to inflammatory disease discovered
- Scientists develop new way to grow adult stem cells in culture
- Inherited glycosylation disorder: Researchers find cause of metabolic disease -- and possible cure
- Diabetes shouldn't deter young athletes, study suggests
- New arsenic nanoparticle blocks aggressive breast cancer
- Dementia in diabetics differs from dementia in nondiabetics, research finds
- Conflicted meat-eaters may deny that meat-animals have the capacity to suffer, study finds
- Retrovirus replication process different than thought
- Diabetes risk: Waist circumference gives better prediction than BMI
- Behavior problems in school linked to two types of families
- Arsenic shows promise as cancer treatment, study finds
- Those who exercise when young have stronger bones when they grow old
- Supercharged proteins enter biology's forbidden zone
- Fast food chains have significantly decreased trans fats in cooking oils, study finds
- Blind mice can 'see' thanks to special retinal cells
- Major Alzheimer's risk gene causes alterations in shapes of brain protein deposits
- Finding cancer 'cold spots' can help minimize radiotherapy side-effects
- New analysis may help clarify the role of craving in addiction
- Obesity harms women's memory and brain function, study finds
- Pigs provide clues on cystic fibrosis lung disease
- Future HIV vaccines: If we build it, will they come?
- Risks of banned drug mephedrone revealed in new research
- Spanish gene expression data promise targeting of anti-angiogenesis treatment
- Waterborne diseases could cost over 0 million annually in US
- When does obesity become a child protection issue?
- Toxicity increases with combined chemo/radiation treatments for nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Device achieves 90 percent closure rate for atrial septal defect in children; Biodegradable implant avoids risks associated with metal devices
- Hurricane Katrina's effects on children: Resilience and gender
Posted 2010-07-15:
- Severe vasculitis: After 40 years, researchers identify possible new treatment
- Plavix may be treatment for dogs at risk of thromboembolic disease
- Brain fitness program study reveals visual memory improvement in older adults
- High-risk prostate cancer associated with significantly lower bone mineral content loss
- Cashew seed extract an effective anti-diabetic, study shows
- Brain responses of obese individuals are more weakly linked to feelings of hunger
- Water's unexpected role in blood pressure control
- Tea may contain more fluoride than once thought, research shows
- Medications found to cause long term cognitive impairment of aging brain, study finds
- Consumers under-predict learning curve following initial experience with product
- Problematic blood clotting contributes to Alzheimer’s disease
- 'Cool' imagery lowers hot flashes through hypnotherapy
- Lifelong doubling in death risk for men who are obese at age 20, study finds
- New generation of biological scaffolds
- Great apes 'play' tag to keep competitive advantage
- Smoking influences gene function, scientists say
- Researchers fighting bacterial infections zero in on microorganism's soft spots
- Prolonged training at altitude could decrease athletes’ performance
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