Inside college parties: surprising findings about drinking behavior
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“Most studies use survey methods that require people to recall their drinking behavior – days, weeks or months prior – and such recall is not always accurate,” noted J.D. Clapp, director of the Center for Alcohol and Drug ...
Human hormone blocker found to help prevent obesity and diabetes: study
Jan 03, 2008 |
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A new study finds that a chemical found in the body is capable of promoting weight loss, improving insulin resistance and reversing diabetes in an animal model. The hormone is gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) receptor ...
Mobile metal atoms
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Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods—the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries offer the highest energy density, allow ...
Researchers use neuroimaging to study ESP
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Psychologists at Harvard University have developed a new method to study extrasensory perception that, they argue, can resolve the century-old debate over its existence. According to the authors, their study not only illustrates ...
Earthquake 'memory' could spur aftershocks
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Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves—the sounds radiated from earthquakes—can induce earthquake aftershocks, often ...
UVa biomedical engineering study shows magnetic field can reduce swelling
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A recent study by University of Virginia researchers demonstrates that the use of an acute, localized static magnetic field of moderate strength can result in significant reduction of swelling when applied immediately after ...
Children are introduced to sipping and tasting alcohol in the home
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“Almost all of the limited scientific literature on alcohol use in children has focused on drinking, not sipping or tasting alcohol,” said John E. Donovan, an associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the University ...
North Atlantic warming tied to natural variability; but global warming may be at play elsewhere
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A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean’s surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled ...
Researchers design shape-memory polymers for biomedical applications
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.
First-ever study to link increased mortality specifically to carbon dioxide emissions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 03, 2008 |
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A Stanford scientist has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere ...
Study finds most TV prescription drug ads minimize risk information
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Prescription drug ads on television first hit the airwaves just over a decade ago, but a new University of Georgia study finds that most of them still do not present a fair balance of information, especially when it comes ...
New strategies work to put cancer on the firing line
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Dr. Yukai He wants to put cancer in the bull’s eye.“Cancer really comes from us,” the Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center immunologist says of the scary reality that cancer cells are our own cells gone awry. That means ...
Gene therapy can reduce long-term drinking among rodents
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“An ‘experiment of nature’ is observed in some individuals of East Asian origin, who are 66 to 99 percent protected against alcoholism,” explained Yedy Israel, professor of pharmacological and toxicological chemistry at the ...
The dopamine transporter gene influences alcohol withdrawal seizures
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“People with alcoholism continue to die because of complications related to withdrawal symptoms, mainly delirium tremens – delirium associated with visual hallucinations – and /or seizures,” said Philip Gorwood, professor ...
Catheter chaos: Hospitals lag in preventing common infection
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[B]No consistent strategy for dealing with urinary catheters, or ensuring their removal, means patients and families need to speak up[/B] One in four Americans in the hospital right now has a urinary catheter. One percent of ...
