http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Research led by Hernan A. Bazan, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that unstable carotid artery plaques - those in danger of rupturing and leading to a stroke - contain more inflammation and significantly less omega-3 fatty acids than asymptomatic plaques. This suggests that increasing the levels of omega-3 fatty acids in carotid artery plaques could either prevent strokes or improve the safety of treatment. This may be accomplished by increasing dietary intake of foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids. http://www.physorg.com/news173620928.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:20:02 EST news173620928 (AP) -- Getting named the local paper's Person of the Year was supposed to be an honor for small-town politician Dean Zuleger. But the award only enraged many townspeople. http://www.physorg.com/news172425171.html Technology Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:30:02 EST news172425171 Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes. http://www.physorg.com/news172416619.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00:01 EST news172416619 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the F. W. Olin College of Engineering finds that in the aftermath of national trauma, the ability to make sense out of what happened has implications for individual well-being and that the kinds of stories people tell about the incident predict very different psychological outcomes for them. http://www.physorg.com/news168014085.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:35:27 EST news168014085 (AP) -- Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news166768093.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:28:41 EST news166768093 (AP) -- Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort. http://www.physorg.com/news166425036.html Technology Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:11:03 EST news166425036 (AP) -- The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections. http://www.physorg.com/news165825836.html Technology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:44:23 EST news165825836 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cyber attacks on computer networks are becoming increasingly commonplace. To counter the threat, they are protected by so-called network intrusion detection systems. But these fail to identify some attacks, or do not spot them until it is too late. http://www.physorg.com/news165587633.html Technology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:50:01 EST news165587633 Five clones of a search and rescue dog which helped locate people trapped in the rubble of the 9/11 attacks were formally presented to their ancestor's former handler. http://www.physorg.com/news164510477.html Biology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:00:02 EST news164510477 South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news164340613.html Technology Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:10:36 EST news164340613 A "new arms race" is taking shape in cyberspace, Canada's security czar said Wednesday, lamenting ever bolder and more sophisticated attacks on government websites by Russia, China and others. http://www.physorg.com/news162651091.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 13:51:58 EST news162651091 Research conducted seven years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City (NYC) found that children attending the socioeconomically and ethnically homogeneous elementary school closest to Ground Zero have high rates of self-reported asthma and airway obstruction. http://www.physorg.com/news161953729.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 12:09:39 EST news161953729 (AP) -- The nation's air traffic control systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks, and support systems have been breached in recent months allowing hackers access to personnel records and network servers, according to a new report. http://www.physorg.com/news160842798.html Technology Wed, 06 May 2009 15:34:14 EST news160842798 South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news160643714.html Technology Mon, 04 May 2009 08:15:48 EST news160643714 (AP) -- Shrouded in secrecy, the U.S. government's policies on how and when to wage cyber warfare are ill-formed, lack adequate oversight and require a broad public debate, a new report by the National Research Council says. http://www.physorg.com/news160312424.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:14:10 EST news160312424 When migraine strikes, because of severe pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, sufferers are effectively disabled for up to 72 hours. Since they are forced to stop what they are doing until the pain and other symptoms subside, migraine causes a significant loss in productivity at work and the personal lives of those affected. Migraineurs - especially the 25% of migraineurs who experience more than three migraine attacks per month - are looking to drug developers to provide new drugs to prevent migraine attacks before they start. In the U.S. alone, approximately 30 million people suffer from migraines and the cost to employers has been estimated at $13 billion annually in lost productivity. Currently, several types of drugs, like generic beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, tricyclic antidepressants and anti-epileptic drugs, some of which are used off-label, are given to prevent migraines. However, many patients have only a partial response to these products, many of which have troubling side effects. Nevertheless, many migraine patients use existing drugs, illustrating how badly new drugs are needed. http://www.physorg.com/news160212951.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:36:22 EST news160212951 Cisco on Tuesday unveiled tools to harden computer network defenses of businesses that use software applications as services on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news159548293.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:58:44 EST news159548293 (AP) -- One economy apparently isn't hurting these days - the one run by identity thieves in the dark corners of the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news158907571.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:00:23 EST news158907571 (AP) -- Ghost hackers infiltrating the computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electric grid have pulled the curtain back on 21st-century espionage as nefarious as anything from the Cold War - and far more difficult to stop. http://www.physorg.com/news158562451.html Technology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:08:16 EST news158562451 New Geisinger-lead research dispels a recent notion in psychiatry that if a person experiences a panic attack during a traumatic event that they will likely suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news158496530.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:49:24 EST news158496530 (AP) -- The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news158333019.html Technology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:24:03 EST news158333019 For the first time ever, a Michigan State University researcher has shown cholesterol crystals can disrupt plaque in a patient's cardiovascular system, causing a heart attack or stroke. http://www.physorg.com/news157307267.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:28:29 EST news157307267 (PhysOrg.com) -- The means by which most deadly malaria parasites are detected and killed by the mosquitoes that carry them is revealed for the first time in research published today in Science Express. The discovery could help researchers find a way to block transmission of the disease from mosquitoes to humans. http://www.physorg.com/news155485175.html Biology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:20:06 EST news155485175 In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Jeremy Ginges and Ian Hansen from the New School for Social Research along with psychologist Ara Norenzayan from the University of British Columbia conducted a series of experiments investigating the relationship between religion and support for acts of parochial altruism, including suicide attacks. Suicide attacks are an extreme form of "parochial altruism" - they combine a parochial act (the attacker killing members from other groups) with altruism (the attacker sacrificing themselves for the group). http://www.physorg.com/news154200893.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:35:37 EST news154200893 Doctors can use a patient's genetic information to more accurately prescribe doses of a commonly used blood-thinning drug whose potency and side effects vary greatly from one person to the next, reports an international team of medical scientists including researchers from the University of Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news154200075.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:21:44 EST news154200075 While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 - and perhaps where he has been in the years since. http://www.physorg.com/news154112231.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:58:11 EST news154112231 New research looks at whether a gene variant may affect the link between migraine and stroke or heart attacks. The study is published in the February 17, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news154025609.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:54:01 EST news154025609 A simple measurement of resting pulse predicts coronary events in women independently of physical activity and common risk factors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, finds a study published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news152951670.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:35:08 EST news152951670 The September 11 terrorist attacks had a profound impact on this country's psyche. Eight years after the attacks, we are still learning how those terrible events affected us. A number of studies have shown that people who lived closest to the sites of the terrorist attacks experienced heightened levels of stress and anxiety in the months following the September 11 attacks. Research has also indicated that elevated levels of stress can greatly impact day-to-day behaviors such as driving. http://www.physorg.com/news152803952.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:33:09 EST news152803952 Another chapter in a murder case over 5000 years old. New investigations by an LMU research team working together with a Bolzano colleague reconstructed the chronology of the injuries that Oetzi, the glacier man preserved as a frozen mummy, received in his last days. It turns out, for example, that he did in fact only survive the arrow wound in his back for a very short time - a few minutes to a number of hours, but no more - and also definitely received a blow to the back with a blunt object only shortly before his death. http://www.physorg.com/news152371633.html Other Sciences Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:27:38 EST news152371633