Less hype and more research needed into new 'superbug,' say experts
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Recent tabloid hype over the "newly emerging superbug", Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, is misplaced, say experts in this week's issue of the BMJ.
Road pollution blamed for higher allergy risk in kids
Jun 13, 2008 |
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New evidence blames traffic-related pollution for increasing the risk of allergy and atopic diseases among children by more than fifty percent. What's more, the closer children live to roads, the higher their risk.
NASA Completes Review Milestone for Ares I First Stage
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2008 |
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NASA has completed the preliminary design review for the first stage of the Ares I rocket -- giving overall approval for the agency's technical design approach. This review brings NASA one step closer to developing ...
1 in 10 adults has a non-earlobe piercing
Jun 13, 2008 |
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One in ten adults in England have had a piercing somewhere other than their ear lobe, with a quarter experiencing complications, and one in 100 piercings resulting in a hospital admission, according to a study published on ...
Serum sodium predicts mortality 10 times higher in PAH patients
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—chronically high blood pressure in the blood vessels of the lungs—whose serum sodium levels are low (called hyponatremia, or HN) have a very poor chance of survival and ...
NASA data helps pinpoint impacted populations in disaster aftermath
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 13, 2008 |
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When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set ...
Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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A new ecological study led by a University of Adelaide researcher should help identify species prone to extinction under environmental change, and species that are likely to become a pest.
Toothpaste too pricey for the poor
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Fluoride toothpaste is prohibitively expensive for the world's poorest people, according to a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Globalization and Health. Researchers revealed that the poorest popula ...
An unexpected link between coronavirus replication and protein secretion in infected cells
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Coronavirus replication is critically linked to two factors within the early secretory pathway, according to new findings by a team of Dutch researchers that are published June 13th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
1 in 8 Lower Manhattan residents had signs of PTSD 2 to 3 years after 9/11
Jun 13, 2008 |
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For many residents of Lower Manhattan, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, had lasting psychological consequences. New findings, released today by the Health Department's World Trade Center Health Registry, show ...
1 patient's account of becoming a live kidney donor
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Annabel Ferriman, an editor at the BMJ, gives a frank first person account of her journey through the "protracted" and sometimes "frustrating" process of becoming a live kidney donor to her friend, Ray, who had been suffer ...
Radical reform is needed to stop the 'inhumane' practice of transplant tourism
Jun 13, 2008 |
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The UK government must bring in presumed consent to organ donation or allow a controlled donor compensation programme for unrelated live donors, in order to bring the "inhumane" practice of transplant tourism from the UK ...
