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. (AP) -- A panel of university and private-sector scientists urged Congress on Thursday not to overregulate laboratories that handle the world's deadliest pathogens, saying it could have a chilling effect on research of biological threats. http://www.physorg.com/news173539166.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:01 EST news173539166 Consumers usually find out pretty quickly if the meat they're planning to throw on the grill has been recalled. http://www.physorg.com/news167479029.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:30:01 EST news167479029 (AP) -- Imported insects have been deployed as foot soldiers in the fight against invasive bugs and plants that cause billions of dollars in damage each year. But some of those imports are proving to be pests themselves that upset the balance of nature and threaten native species. http://www.physorg.com/news167407763.html Biology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:20:02 EST news167407763 (AP) -- A massive effort to test pregnant women for a deadly germ they can spread to their babies has yielded a bad surprise - a high rate of wrong test results that led some infants to miss out on treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news164510142.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:20:01 EST news164510142 Scientists have unlocked the code for the building blocks of fungal organisms which are responsible for mild as well as potentially deadly infections in people. http://www.physorg.com/news164292582.html Biology Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:30:01 EST news164292582 Rice University's Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to bind with other proteins. http://www.physorg.com/news161958048.html Chemistry Tue, 19 May 2009 13:24:04 EST news161958048 (AP) -- Scientists are airlifting dozens of one of the world's largest frogs off of Montserrat island to save them from a deadly fungus devastating their dwindling habitat. The dense forest of this tiny British Caribbean territory is the last remaining stronghold of the critically endangered mountain chicken frog, a 2-pound (0.9 kg), frying pan-size amphibian that got its name because locals say its meat tastes like - you guessed it - chicken. http://www.physorg.com/news161054412.html Biology Sat, 09 May 2009 02:20:56 EST news161054412 (AP) -- The ProVector Bt may not look too much like a real flower, but the artificial device sports bright, finely tuned colors and sweet nectar that can lure and kill mosquitoes that potentially carry diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news160842732.html Technology Wed, 06 May 2009 15:32:45 EST news160842732 The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book. http://www.physorg.com/news160389288.html Biology Fri, 01 May 2009 09:35:46 EST news160389288 (AP) -- The top EU health official urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to parts of the United States and Mexico because of the swine flu virus, and Spanish health officials confirmed the first case outside North America. http://www.physorg.com/news160045756.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:09:46 EST news160045756 (AP) -- The Mexican government is trying to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as a new work week begins by urging people to stay home Monday if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to have killed more than 100 people. http://www.physorg.com/news160039263.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:23:17 EST news160039263 (AP) -- Canada became the third country to confirm human cases of swine flu Sunday as global health officials considered whether to raise the global pandemic alert level. http://www.physorg.com/news159972831.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:54:17 EST news159972831 Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. The announcement is being made on behalf of the Malaria Elimination Group, a global body of researchers, policy experts and country program managers, by the Global Health Group of UCSF Global Health Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news159776879.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:29:39 EST news159776879 Killing just the older mosquitoes would be a more sustainable way of controlling malaria, according to entomologists who add that the approach may lead to evolution-proof insecticides that never become obsolete. http://www.physorg.com/news158303146.html Biology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:06:17 EST news158303146 A new study published as the cover article for the April 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal promises to give physicians new ways to reduce deadly responses to viral infections of the brain and spinal cord. In the report, scientists from Columbia University, NY, detail for the first time the chemical processes that star-shaped nerve cells, called astrocytes, use to handle invading viruses and to summon other immune cells to cause life-threatening inflammation. http://www.physorg.com/news157713299.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:15:23 EST news157713299 Countless people have heard the phrase, "You have lung cancer," but only 50 can say they've completed a new treatment at Temple University that doubles their chances of surviving the deadly disease - and without the conventional radiation regimen or surgery. Doctors in the Radiation Oncology Department say the technique, stereotactic body radiotherapy, or SBRT, not only improves a person's odds of surviving early stage lung cancer, but may reduce the need for future surgeries. http://www.physorg.com/news155403104.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:33:39 EST news155403104 Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a deadly microbe evades the human immune system and causes disease. http://www.physorg.com/news152905272.html Biology Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:41:47 EST news152905272 Study weather reports online, and you might want to give up on meteorology. "Deadly" storms fizzle, while weaker-looking fronts devastate. Temperatures often soar above predicted highs or plummet below predicted lows. http://www.physorg.com/news152379101.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:32:54 EST news152379101 Researchers from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans and animals, is associated with land management changes such as livestock husbandry or residential gardening. The study, published January 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, sheds light on the environmental occurrence of this bacterium in the soil. http://www.physorg.com/news151737685.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:22:05 EST news151737685