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A study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that for elderly people at risk of cardiovascular disease, the presence of inflammatory markers in the blood can identify that an individual is at a higher risk of a fatal rather than a non-fatal heart attack or stroke. http://www.physorg.com/news164965315.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:00:07 EST news164965315 Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate. http://www.physorg.com/news164546585.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:23:36 EST news164546585 (PhysOrg.com) -- A meta-analysis of five trials has shown that more intensive glucose control in diabetes leads to fewer heart attacks and heart disease events - but has no significant effect on stroke or mortality from all causes. http://www.physorg.com/news162568058.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 14:48:12 EST news162568058 An analysis of previous studies indicates that among patients with peripheral artery disease, aspirin use is associated with a statistically nonsignificant decrease in the risk of a group of combined cardiovascular events (nonfatal heart attack, nonfatal stroke, and cardiovascular death), but is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of one of these events, nonfatal stroke, although the findings may be limited by the lack of a large study population, according to an article in the May 13 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news161365561.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 May 2009 16:46:23 EST news161365561 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) drillship JOIDES Resolution is returning to port in Honolulu this week after a two-month voyage to chart detailed climate history in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The expedition was the first of two back-to-back voyages of a scientific project called Pacific Equatorial Age Transect (PEAT). It was the first international scientific drilling expedition after the JOIDES Resolution underwent a multi-year transformation into a 21st-century floating science laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news160410462.html Space & Earth Fri, 01 May 2009 15:28:15 EST news160410462 (PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed scientists to reveal for the first time the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of solar explosions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. http://www.physorg.com/news160162452.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:34:44 EST news160162452 Having strong memories of that rich, delicious dessert you ate last night? If so, you shouldn't feel like a glutton. It's only natural. http://www.physorg.com/news160072047.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:28:09 EST news160072047 April 27, 2009 - A new study appearing in Restoration Ecology describes a novel technique for reattaching large sponges that have been dislodged from coral reefs. The findings could be generally applied to the restoration of other large sponge species removed by human activities or storm events. http://www.physorg.com/news160061112.html Biology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:25:44 EST news160061112 If you are resident of New Orleans, how would you describe personal events that occurred shortly before August 2005? Would you refer to them as happening "back in July of 2005" or would you describe them as happening "just before Hurricane Katrina"? If you live in Oregon, would you make reference to Hurricane Katrina? A team of researchers, led by psychologist Norman R. Brown from the University of Alberta, investigated how public events (e.g., war, natural disaster, terrorism) shape our personal memories. http://www.physorg.com/news159713449.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:51:21 EST news159713449 Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance of our experiences and how we form memories of them. A lack of proper brain function in this area is what lies beneath such conditions as Schizophrenia and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In people who suffer from these conditions emotional experiences can become distorted, causing the person to 'lose touch' with reality. The findings have been published online by The Journal of Neuroscience. http://www.physorg.com/news159461811.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:57:16 EST news159461811 (AP) -- Socializr, the online invitations startup from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, now helps users manage their events from sites like Facebook, MySpace, Evite and Meetup. http://www.physorg.com/news159025148.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:39:32 EST news159025148 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 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mass extinctions occur repeatedly, though irregularly, throughout Earth`s history, and occasionally these extinctions have been devastating to life on our planet - or have they? Extinction events have sometimes accelerated the evolution of life on earth by eliminating old dominating species and making room for new ones. A new study takes this idea a step further, showing that life may have never achieved the complexity necessary for the development of advanced multi-cellular organisms without recurring extinction events. http://www.physorg.com/news157973463.html Biology Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:31:31 EST news157973463 Millions more patients could benefit from taking statins, drugs typically used to prevent heart attacks and strokes, than current prescribing guidelines suggest, Johns Hopkins doctors report in a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news156614761.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:06:43 EST news156614761 Compared to placebo, the drug pactimibe did not effect certain measures of atherosclerosis for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol levels), but these patients did have an increased incidence of cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke, according to a study in the March 18 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news156531174.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:53:39 EST news156531174 Injections with a new type of botulinum toxin appears to be well tolerated and may help to improve the appearance of moderate to severe forehead lines with no evidence of diminishing treatment response over 13 months, according to a report in the March/April issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news156449859.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:18:12 EST news156449859 Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life. http://www.physorg.com/news156269282.html Technology Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:08:26 EST news156269282 The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.physorg.com/news156171835.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:05:09 EST news156171835 On March 14, 2008, a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta, its 130 mile-per-hour winds ripping holes in the roof of the Georgia Dome, blowing out office windows and trashing parts of Centennial Olympic Park. It was an event so rare in an urban landscape that researchers immediately began to examine NASA satellite data and historical archives to see what weather and climatological ingredients may have combined to brew such a storm. http://www.physorg.com/news156009643.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:02:31 EST news156009643 New data published in the March 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggest that relatively healthy women with severe depression are at increased risk of cardiac events, including sudden cardiac death (SCD) and fatal coronary heart disease (CHD). Researchers found that much of the relationship between depressive symptoms and cardiac events was mediated by cardiovascular disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking. http://www.physorg.com/news155842498.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:35:38 EST news155842498 A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically connected. http://www.physorg.com/news155471219.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:27:38 EST news155471219 The New York Times has launched an experimental network of websites providing local community news and information for residents of neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey. http://www.physorg.com/news155288898.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:48:54 EST news155288898 When male police officers need to de-stress, they might trade war stories -- but likely not with their female colleagues. http://www.physorg.com/news154869522.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:19:04 EST news154869522 (PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011. http://www.physorg.com/news154792355.html Physics Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:53:19 EST news154792355 Severe fires in Indonesia - responsible for some of the worst air quality conditions worldwide - are linked not only to drought, but also to changes in land use and population density, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience led by Robert Field of the University of Toronto. http://www.physorg.com/news154540375.html Space & Earth Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:53:38 EST news154540375 After installing an extensive network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events (also known as "silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya Peninsula. These findings are helping scientists understand the full spectrum of motions occurring on the fault and may yield new insights into the events that lead to major earthquakes. http://www.physorg.com/news153929276.html Space & Earth Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:08:28 EST news153929276 Remembering negative events tends to result in more false memories than remembering neutral events, according to Cornell professor of human development Charles Brainerd. http://www.physorg.com/news152982872.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:15:03 EST news152982872 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 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the last decade, scientists have recorded regular episodes of tectonic plates slowly, quietly slipping past each other in western Washington and British Columbia over periods of two weeks or more, releasing as much energy as a magnitude 6 earthquake. http://www.physorg.com/news152461537.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:26:08 EST news152461537 If a vacation starts out bad and gets better, you'll have a more positive memory than if it starts out good and gets worse -if you're asked about it right afterward, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news152205761.html Other Sciences Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:23:11 EST news152205761