Archive: 02/19/2008
Suicide spikes for U.S. middle-aged
A five-year study on suicide in the United States found a 20 percent increase in the suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds, out-pacing any other age group.
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FDA asked to drop soy health claims
A non-profit nutrition education organization has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to drop heart disease health claims for soy protein.
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Two Hawaii schools tested in TB scare
More than 100 Hawaiian students and faculty were tested for exposure to tuberculosis Tuesday.
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Chemists measure copper levels in zinc oxide nanowires
Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been the first to measure significant amounts of copper incorporated into zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires during fabrication. The issue is important ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A fresh look inside Mount St. Helens
Volcanoes are notoriously hard to study. All the action takes place deep inside, at enormous temperatures. So geophysicists make models, using what they know to develop theories about what they don’t know.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Turtle studies suggest health risks from environmental contaminants
The same chemicals that keep food from sticking to our frying pans and stains from setting in our carpets are damaging the livers and impairing the immune systems of loggerhead turtles—an environmental health ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Gene therapy 'trains' immune system to destroy brain cancer cells and reverses behavioral deficits
A new gene therapy approach that attracts and “trains” immune system cells to destroy deadly brain cancer cells also provides long-term immunity, produces no significant adverse effects and -- in the process of destroying ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Tumor-killing virus selectively targets diseased brain cells
New findings show that a specialized virus with the ability to reproduce its tumor-killing genes can selectively target tumors in the brains of mice and eliminate them. Healthy brain tissue remained virtually untouched, according ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Researchers create first chikungunya animal model
Researchers have developed the first animal model of the infection caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an emerging arbovirus associated with large-scale epidemics that hit the Indian Ocean (especially the French Island of ...
Biology /
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Women who suffered child abuse spend more on health care
Middle-aged women who suffered physical or sexual abuse as children spend up to one-third more than average in health-care costs, according to a long-term study of more than 3,000 women. Even decades after the abuse ended, ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Purdue lab works to improve conditions at indoor swimming pools
Researchers at Purdue University have determined how certain airborne contaminants are created when chlorine reacts with sweat and urine in indoor swimming pools, a step toward learning how to reduce the formation of "volatile ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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'NMR on a chip' features magnetic mini-sensor
A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology can detect nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a novel microchip. The prototype ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Different treatments for acute kidney failure appear to often have similar outcomes
An analysis of studies examining treatments for acute kidney failure indicates that intermittent hemodialysis and continuous kidney replacement therapy appear to lead to similar clinical outcomes, including a similar risk ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Directed self-ordering of organic molecules for electronic devices
A simple surface treatment technique demonstrated by a collaboration between researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Penn State and the University of Kentucky potentially offers ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Small Sea Creatures May Be the 'Canaries in the Coal Mine' of Climate Change
As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk.
Biology /
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