Lower transmission increases dengue deaths
Feb 04, 2008 |
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A pair of researchers has answered a puzzle about why efforts to lower the transmission of dengue virus in Thailand have not resulted in decreases in the severe, life-threatening, form of the infection. In fact, it seems ...
Microneedles enhance drug administration through skin
Feb 04, 2008 |
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In what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed study of its kind involving human subjects, researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated ...
Former substance abusers rarely relapse after organ transplantation
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Only about 6 percent of former alcoholics and 4 percent of former illicit drug users will relapse into their addictions in any given year following an organ transplant. These results are published in the February issue of ...
Global positioning tracker may better gauge severity of peripheral artery disease
Feb 04, 2008 |
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A space-based technology may provide an inexpensive and more reliable way to gauge the walking capacity in many patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), whose clogged leg arteries cause them severe pain when they walk, ...
Older women more likely to become, remain depressed than older men
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Older women appear more susceptible to depression and more likely to stay depressed but less likely to die while depressed than older men, factors that contribute to the higher burden of depression among older women, according ...
Smoking linked to sleep disturbances
Feb 04, 2008 |
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New research shows that cigarette smokers are four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling unrested after a night’s sleep. The study, appearing in the February issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American ...
Asian tigers urged to reject polluting foreign investors
Feb 04, 2008 |
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South East Asia’s tiger economies should prize the long-term health of their environment above the ongoing short-term gains provided by foreign firms that pollute, economists have claimed.
Infineon Ships Industry's First CMOS RF Switches with GaAs Performance
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Today Infineon Technologies announced it is shipping in volume the world’s first RF switches that are manufactured in a CMOS-based process on silicon wafers and offer the equivalent performance of RF switches manufactured ...
Rheumatoid arthritis sends many into early retirement
Feb 04, 2008 |
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A joint study on “The Burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Patient Access to Treatments” by authors from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), the University of Lund (Sweden) and the Medical University of Vienna (Austria) ...
IDSA: 2009 Bush budget a disaster for HIV/AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 04, 2008 |
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The President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2009, if enacted, would spell disaster for the nation’s health, and by extension, our national effort to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States.
Parental drinking and parenting practices influence adolescent drinking
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Adolescence is a critical time of development on many different levels, but especially concerning the initiation and escalation of alcohol use. For example, the proportion of American adolescents who regularly drink alcohol ...
Study finds good outcomes for older lung transplant patients
Feb 04, 2008 |
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In the world of organ donation, it has been common practice to exclude older patients from receiving transplants because of limited donor supply and lower survival rates. However, patients such as Lois Tumanello, who received ...
2 genes found to play crucial role in cell survival
Feb 04, 2008 |
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New research suggests that two recently discovered genes are critically important for controlling cell survival during embryonic development.
Researchers use new method to probe recollections in memory-impaired patients
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Neuroscientists continue to debate whether or not long-term memory always depends on a region of the brain called the medial temporal lobe, which contains the brain’s memory-processing center, the hippocampus. A new study ...
Insomnia patients often denied sleep treatment when they have mental health conditions
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Patients with insomnia who are diagnosed with accompanying mental health ailments often are not prescribed medication that will help them sleep – which could then make related anxiety or depression worse, new research suggests.
