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for the Week of August 14 to August 21, 2011
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Posted 2011-08-20:
- Parasite uses the power of attraction to trick rats into becoming cat food
- New piece to the puzzle of brain function
- Coronary calcium beats C-reactive protein for predicting heart attack and stroke risk, study finds
- Kinder, gentler cell capture method could aid medical research
- Most U.S. physicians will face malpractice claims, but risk of making payment is low, analysis finds
- Enzyme's structure reveals basis for head, reproductive organ deformities
- Fishing games gone wrong: Trial-and-error behind important cause of female infertility
- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs can reduce the risk of stroke, but sometimes should be avoided, study suggests
- Spoilt food soon a thing of the past?
- Four-year-olds know that being right is not enough
- Active participation in voluntary organizations declining faster than checkbooks can keep up
Posted 2011-08-20:
- Mother's BMI linked to fatter babies
- New treatment approach for Alzheimer's disease: Researchers plan to use specialized cells of the immune system
- Powerful X-rays enable development of successful treatment for melanoma and other life-threatening diseases
- Education leaders call for radical transformation in graduate biomedical curriculum
- Boys reach sexual maturity younger and younger: Phase between being physically but not socially adult is getting longer
- Triple therapy regime puts patients with leukemic form of cutaneous lymphoma in remission
- Micro-organisms are 'invisible' to the immune system
- Realistic simulation of ion flux through membrane sheds light on antibiotic resistance
- Researchers alarmed at rise in hookah use among California youth
- Moderate drinking may protect against Alzheimer's and cognitive impairment, study suggests
- College students not eating enough fruits and veggies, study finds
- Long-term, intimate partnerships can promote unhealthy habits
- Dissimilar interaction of opioid receptors may explain why men and women experience pain differently
- Strengthening fragile immune memories to fight chronic infections
- Robust preschool experience offers lasting effects on language and literacy
- Fat around heart may be early indicator of coronary disease
- Kidney drugs hampered by high blood phosphate; Lowering phosphate levels could help prevent kidney failure, study suggests
- Sex differences in mental illness: Men more likely to develop substance abuse, antisocial problems; women more likely to develop anxiety, depression
- Cancer stem cells made, not born: Experiments and modeling reveal how tumors maintain cellular balance
- A faster, cheaper way to diagnose tuberculosis
- Researchers outline ways to advance scientific thinking in children
- Insulation from public pressure leads to more accurate suicide reporting by death investigators
- Acne-treating antibiotic cuts catheter infections in dialysis patients
Posted 2011-08-19:
- How sticky egg captures sperm: Discovery could help explain infertility causes and provide new contraceptive targets
- Mutant gene identified that causes abnormal chromosome count, leading to cancer
- Bacteria from dog feces present in outdoor air in urban areas
- Increased celiac disease prevalence in women with unexplained infertility
- Study exposes habit formation in smartphone users
- Switch in cell's 'power plant' declines with age, rejuvenated by drug
- Embryo development obeys the laws of hydrodynamics
- Remembering surgery: Device no better than cheaper alternatives for preventing intraoperative awareness
- Majority of pharmaceutical ads do not adhere to FDA guidelines, new study finds
- New research reveals brain's protection mechanism during stroke
- Muscle-building effect of protein beverages for athletes investigated
- Review highlights flawed logic of segregating boys and girls for education purposes, based on alleged brain differences
- Treatment with vitamin C dissolves toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease
- Headaches are common in year following traumatic brain injury, especially among females
- Impulsive alcoholics likely to die sooner
- Blocking cancer cell’s energy ‘generator’ could lead to new targeted treatments
- HIV havens: Researchers find new clues about how HIV reservoirs may form
- Computers will be able to tell social traits from human faces, researchers predict
- Everyday 'clairvoyance:' How your brain makes near-future predictions
- Improved method for capturing proteins holds promise for biomedical research
- Computational method predicts new uses for existing medicines; Match-making program uses gene expression patterns
- Cells derived from pluripotent stem cells are developmentally immature
- Ambitious goals equals satisfaction
- Sniffer dogs can be used to detect lung cancer, research suggests
- Maternal fat has negative impact on embryo development
- New risk score spots patients at high risk of serious blood clots
- Common vein condition increases risk for developing life-threating blood clots
- Near-infrared imaging system shows promise as future pancreatic cancer diagnostic tool
- Better mattresses improve care, cut hospital costs
- Cellular laser microsurgery illuminates research in vertebrate biology
- Want to improve employee engagement? Make it part of the performance management process
- Emergency workers will respond: Study shows first responders will report to duty, but need assistance with family matters
- Research examines the black-and-white issues surrounding executions in the South
- Annual cervical cancer screening persists, despite recommended guidelines
Posted 2011-08-18:
- Hospitalizations due to skin and soft-tissue infections among children have doubled
- Relationship between glaucoma and diabetes, hypertension
- Fish oil's impact on cognition and brain structure identified in new study
- Using powder-free latex gloves reduces latex allergy rate in health care workers
- Working together can help battle effects of fatigue: Teams show more flexible thinking when fatigued than individuals, study finds
- Researchers find new hope for treatment of chronic leukemia
- Gene combination increases risk of lung cancer, particularly in light smokers, study finds
- Fifteen minutes of moderate daily exercise lengthens life, Taiwanese study finds
- Effects of prenatal stress passed across generations in mice
- Popular herbal supplements may adversely affect chemotherapy treatment
- Fat and healthy? Study finds slim isn't always superior
- 'Methyl magnet' genes can predispose families to increased cancer risk
- Use of radioactive iodine for treatment of thyroid cancer on the rise
- Easy to visualize goal is powerful motivator to finish a race or a task
- Holograms reveal brain's inner workings: Microscopy technique used to observe activity of neurons like never before
- Five inherited genetic variants linked to the most lethal prostate cancers
- Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle
- New drug aids gout patients not helped by standard treatments
- Nut-allergy sufferers face prejudice: Life-threatening nut allergies viewed as 'frivolous' by many
- Scientists show how gene variant linked to ADHD could operate; Study offers potential new target for treatment of ADHD
- Persistent, microscopic blood in urine associated with increased risk of kidney disease
- Brand-conscious consumers take bad news to heart
- Recurrence risk of autism in younger siblings higher than thought, study finds
- New approach to thyroid surgery eliminates neck scar
- Dark beer has more iron than pale beer or non-alcoholic beer
- In job market, social contacts help men, not women
- Parasite-infected rodents attracted to cat odor
- Scientists find new uses for existing drugs by mining gene-activity data banks
- Consumers willing to pay more for sustainable apparel if business is transparent, study finds
Posted 2011-08-17:
- Malignant stem cells may explain why some breast cancers develop and recur
- Defect in A20 gene expression can contribute to onset of rheumatoid arthritis
- Speaking and understanding speech share the same parts of the brain
- Cigarette smoking implicated in half of bladder cancers in women; Bladder cancer risk from smoking is higher than previously estimated, study confirms
- Antibody discovered that may help detect ovarian cancer in earliest stages
- Research on famous Siamese twins demonstrates how the paradox of American identity played out in the bodies of Chang and Eng
- Possibility of temporarily reversing aging in the immune system
- Scientists expand knowledge of cell process involved in many diseases
- Causes of high incidence of breast cancer in African-American women identified
- Consequences of co-worker rudeness are far-reaching
- Daily TV quota of six hours could shorten life expectancy by five years
- Influence of breast milk vs. formula and genetics on gut microbiota composition could help prevent celiac disease
- Garlic doesn't just repel vampires
- Slowing the allergic march
- Breast cancer tumor suppressor gene silenced by low oxygen
- Alcohol interferes with the restorative functions of sleep
- New role for protein in hearing
- Vitamin D levels appear to be associated with risk of skin cancer, although relationship is complex
- Heavy drinkers have poor dietary habits
- Pre-pregnancy overweight may program teen asthma symptoms
- New anti-inflammatory agents silence overactive immune response
- The nag factor: How do children convince their parents to buy unhealthy foods?
- Salmonella stays deadly with a 'beta' version of cell behavior
- Enzyme found disrupting nerve cell communication in Alzheimer's disease
- Stem cells central to pathogenesis of mature lymphoid tumors
- Pathogen research inspires robotics design for medicine and military
- Jailhouse phone calls reveal why domestic violence victims recant
- Medication for severe, chronic gout associated with improvement in symptoms
- Risk of bladder cancer from smoking greater than previously reported, new analysis indicates
- Thyroid cancer treatment varies by hospital, study finds
- Flexible-fiber CO2 laser safe in endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery, study suggests
Posted 2011-08-16:
- E. coli, Salmonella may lurk in unwashable places in produce
- Molecular delivery truck serves gene therapy cocktail
- How excess alcohol depresses immune function
- Inflexibility may give pupils with autism problems in multitasking
- Inhibiting key enzymes kills difficult tumor cells in mice
- Scientists find easier, cheaper way to make a sought-after chemical modification to pharmaceuticals
- Psychologists interrupt the miserable cycle of social insecurity
- Profound reorganization in brains of adults who stutter: Auditory-motor integration located in different part of brain
- Pathway of infection for a common, potentially life-threatening respiratory virus described
- New insight into the regulation of stem cells and cancer cells
- Conflict levels don't change much over course of marriage
- Exercise may help prevent brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease
- Maternal IV fluids linked to newborns' weight loss
- Women's quest to be 'romantically desirable' can conflict with scientific pursuits, study suggests
- New clue to Parkinson's: Shape of key protein surprises researchers
- A VIP for normal brain development
- Male acts of bravery increase accidental death: Effects of male aggression in response to insult most felt in states with 'culture of honor', study suggests
- New discovery may eliminate potentially lethal side effect of stem cell therapy
- Use of CT scans in emergency rooms increased 330 percent in 12 years, U.S. study shows
- TV time: Why children watch multi-screens
- Scientists have new help finding their way around brain's nooks and crannies
- In quest for new therapies, clinician-scientist team unlocks hidden information in human genome
- Seeing a neurologist helps people with Parkinson's live longer, study suggests
- How do consumers revise their unreachable goals?
- Arthritis sufferers' increased risk of heart disease due to disease-related inflammation and other factors, study finds
- How fatty diets cause diabetes
- Trastuzumab raises risk of heart problems in the elderly with history of heart disease or diabetes, study suggests
- When you can recite a poem but not remember who asked you to learn it a few days earlier
- The aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 polymorphism affects alcohol dependence differently by gender
- Childhood cancer survivors in poor health at greater risk for unemployment in adulthood
- Chicago's south side suffers most from unhealthy neighborhoods
Posted 2011-08-15:
- Like humans, chimps are born with immature forebrains
- New treatment option for advanced prostate cancer
- New experimental vaccine against chikungunya virus created
- Schoolchildren can also learn complex subject matters on their own, researchers find
- New non-invasive technology shows promise in shrinking liver tumors
- Higher estrogen production in the breast could confer greater cancer risk than thought
- How the visual system constructs moving objects: One by one
Posted 2011-08-14:
- Scientists highlight link between stress and appetite
- If fat dogs are cool, could fat people be, too?
- Study sheds light on late phase of asthma attacks
- Social acceptance and rejection: The sweet and the bitter
Posted 2011-08-13:
- Lasers stimulate stem cells and reduce heart scarring after heart attack, study suggests
- Drug development in the blink of an eye
- Possible therapeutic target for depression and addiction identified
- Low vitamin D linked to earlier first menstruation
- Human-cell-derived model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis provides a new way to study the majority of cases
- Resistance training can help smokers kick the habit, according to study
- Research reveals genetic link to human intelligence
- 'Good fat' most prevalent in thin children
- Combination of existing safety checks could greatly reduce radiotherapy errors, study suggests
- Increased light may moderate fearful reactions
- Engineers redefine how the brain plans movement
- Scientists copy the ways viruses deliver genes
- Tracking illegal online pharmacies: Evidence of web manipulation
- Depression linked to increased risk of stroke in women
- Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo
- Dual-action protein better restricts blood vessel formation
- Flatworms provide new insight into organ regeneration and the evolution of mammalian kidneys
- Radiofrequency ablation safely and effectively treats Barrett's esophagus, study suggests
- Contrary to earlier findings, excess body fat in elderly decreases life expectancy
- Route for eliciting HIV-neutralizing antibodies mapped
- Most common bladder cancer tumor sequenced
- Radiation rates for breast cancer may be underestimated, study finds
- Researchers fight cholera with computer forecasting
- Study links personal, corporate risk-taking; Examination of CEOs with private pilots' licenses indicates potential benefits in bold behavior
- Poor growth, delayed puberty and heart problems plague kids with mild kidney disease
- World Trade Center attacks increased subsequent firefighter retirements, study finds
- Positive impact of growing public awareness of obesity epidemic found
- Program helps high school students overcome depression and thoughts of suicide
- Religious beliefs shape health care attitudes among US Muslims, report suggests
- Warning signs predict kidney injury after surgery
- Withdrawal of CPAP therapy results in rapid recurrence of OSA
- Standing water and mosquito breeding in cities
Posted 2011-08-12:
- Metabolomics as a basis for gender-specific drugs
- Less salt, less strokes, says new research
- Software predicted risk in California West Nile virus epidemic
- Days spent reading to dogs during summer may help avoid decline of reading skills
- How estrogen could help protect women from cardiovascular disease
- Common class of pain drugs reduces severity of postpartum breast cancers
- Wikipedia gender biases revealed
- Intestinal protein may have role in ADHD, other neurological disorders
- Scientists discover how molecular motors go into 'energy save mode'
- Researchers decode workings of mysterious, but critical TB drug
- Eating protein throughout the day preserves muscle and physical function in dieting postmenopausal women, study suggests
- How a particular gene makes night vision possible
- Genetically engineered spider silk for gene therapy
- New clues to the formation of hearts, intestines and other key organs
- High levels of potentially toxic flame retardants in California pregnant women
- Narcissism may benefit the young, researchers report; but older adults? Not so much
- Red meat linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
- Why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopy: Gut coils with help from its elastic neighbor
- Think fast: The neural circuitry of reaction time
- Paper money worldwide contains bisphenol A
- Can blaming others make people sick?
- Early evidence suggests that TB jab could help fight cancer
- Antioxidant spices, like turmeric and cinnamon, reduce negative effects of high-fat meal
- Novel mechanism that regulates pro-inflammatory cells identified
- Spoiler alert: Stories are not spoiled by 'spoilers'
- Blocking receptor in key hormone fires up enzyme to kill pancreatic cancer cells
- How an antibiotic-producing organism controls resistance to its own antibiotic
- No proof fibrate drugs reduce heart risk in diabetes patients on statins, experts say
- Pulling a fast one: How do consumers react to zippy disclaimers?
- Genetically modified 'serial killer' T-cells obliterate tumors in leukemia patients
- New genetic cause of blinding eye disease
- Poultry farms that go organic have significantly fewer antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Popular muscle-boosting supplement does not increase blood flow, study suggests
- Service as performance: How do class differences affect hospitality interactions?
- Pregnant women in Vancouver may not be getting enough vitamin D
- Stick-on tattoos go electric: Micro-electronics, elegant design and existing tattoo tech combine to create complex device
- Stem cell mobilization therapy safe for bone marrow donors, study suggests
- Hysterectomy can elevate risk of stroke and coronary heart disease, study suggests
Posted 2011-08-11:
- Multiple sclerosis research doubles number of genes associated with the disease, increasing the number to over 50
- New agent prevents stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, study suggests
- Alzheimer's disease symptoms more subtle in people over 80
- Rehab robots lend stroke patients a hand
- Telephone trumps social media when communicating with teens about research
- New discovery in battle against infections
- Fading ability to taste iron raises health concerns for people over age 50
- Frequent tanning bed users exhibit brain changes and behavior similar to addicts, study finds
- Study finds new ADHD genes, links susceptibility with autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions
- Arthritis sufferers are not engaging in physical activity critical to their health
- Scared of the wrong things: Lack of major enzyme causes poor threat-assessment in mice
- Human cells engineered to make functional anal sphincters in lab
- Prenatal pet exposure, delivery mode, race are key factors in early allergy risk, study finds
- Narcissists look like good leaders, but they aren't
- Baker's yeast protects against fatal infections
- Think healthy, eat healthy: Scientists show link between attention and self-control
- Study on silencing of tumor suppressor gene suggests new target for lymphoma
- Music reduces anxiety in cancer patients
- A protein may help treat obesity, diabetes
- No strong evidence to support aspirin use for IVF
- Suicide risk high for war veterans in college, study finds
- Sleep-disordered breathing may increase risk of cognitive impairment, dementia among older women
- Leaky heart valves: First in vitro study of tricuspid valve mechanics uncovers causes for leakage
- Antibiotic useful for localized treatment of bone wear
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