Tweens and teens double use of diabetes drugs
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America's tweens and teens more than doubled their use of type 2 diabetes medications between 2002 and 2005, with girls between 10 and 14 years of age showing a 166 percent increase. One likely cause: Obesity, which is closely ...
MIT captures single-cell response to vaccination
Nov 03, 2008 |
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MIT engineers have painted the most detailed portrait yet of how single cells from the immune system respond to vaccination.
Smokers see decline in ability to smell, rise in laryngitis, and upper airway issues
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As Americans prepare for a day without cigarettes and tobacco products as part of the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout (R) (November 20), new research gives them more reasons to extend that break to a lifetime, ...
New research finds markers for esophageal cancer before it develops
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Rhode Island Hospital researchers have identified genetic proteins, also known as biomarkers, capable of distinguishing changes at the microscopic level that can signal a precancerous condition in the esophagus. These markers ...
A Molecular Identity Crisis - a 'Ribozyme Without RNA'
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not all enzymes that are assumed to require an RNA component in order to function do actually contain RNA. This surprising discovery was made during a project supported by the Austrian Science ...
Nextar Announces Q4-MD Advanced GPS Navigation System
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nextar advanced Navigation System with MSN Direct Service (free for 12 months) will be available at all US retail stores in spring of 2009. The unit (Q4-MD) is part of the Nextar Q4 series ...
Software for safe bridges
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Spanning deep gorges, rivers and freeways, bridges are an indispensable part of the traffic network. Yet their condition in Germany is appalling: In a survey carried out by the German automobile club ADAC ...
Study first to confirm long-term benefits of morphine treatment in infants
Nov 03, 2008 |
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A recent study conducted by researchers at Georgia State University is the first of its kind to demonstrate that administration of preemptive morphine prior to a painful procedure in infancy blocks the long-term negative ...
Liver transplant recipients have higher cancer risk
Nov 03, 2008 |
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A new Canadian study comparing cancer rates of liver transplant patients to those of the general population has found that transplant recipients face increased risks of developing cancer, especially non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ...
Tuning in to the virtues of virtual labs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done.
Grandparents a safe source of childcare
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For working parents, having grandparents as caregivers can cut the risk of childhood injury roughly in half, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Compared to organized ...
What's the role of Kupffer cells in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis?
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a disorder characterized by hepatic steatosis, inflammation and fibrosis with a risk of developing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The progression from simple steatosis ...
Parents' wartime deployment associated with children's behavior problems
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Children ages 3 to 5 with a parent deployed to a war zone appear to exhibit more behavior problems than their peers whose parents are not deployed, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & ...
Study is first to link viewing of sexual content on TV to subsequent teen pregnancy
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Adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as their peers who watch few such shows, according ...
Flu shot protects kids -- even during years with a bad vaccine match
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Children who receive all recommended flu vaccine appear to be less likely to catch the respiratory virus that the CDC estimates hospitalizes 20,000 children every year.
