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Vitamin C deficiency impairs early brain development
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen shows that vitamin C deficiency may impair the mental development of new-born babies.
Research reveals exactly how coughing is triggered by environmental irritants
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed how environmental irritants such as air pollution and cigarette smoke cause people to cough, in research published today in the American Journal of Respiratory an ...
Small numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB may account for high proportion of new infections
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Inadequate treatment of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis (TB) can leave patients highly infectious, and small numbers of such patients may drive transmission of the disease in the very health care facilities intended to ...
Smoking out the mediators of airway damage caused by pollutants
Jun 21, 2008 |
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New insight into how pollution and cigarette smoke damage airways has been provided by Pierangelo Geppetti and colleagues, at the University of Florence, Italy, who studied the effects of such chemicals on guinea pig airways. ...
Pig study forces rethink of Pacific colonisation
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 15, 2007 |
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A survey of wild and domestic pigs has caused archaeologists to reconsider both the origins of the first Pacific colonists and the migration routes humans travelled to reach the remote Pacific.
One step closer to an artificial nerve cell
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University (Sweden) are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. ...
UV lights decrease infectious TB in hospital room air
Mar 17, 2009 |
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The simple intervention of using ultraviolet (UV) lights near the ceiling together with fans may reduce the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in hospitals, and air treatment with negative ionizers may also be effective, according ...
Researchers develop new strategy for broad spectrum anti-viral drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 23, 2008 |
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Bavituximab, an anti-viral drug developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, shows promise as a new strategy to fight viral diseases, including potential bioterrorism agents.
S.Leone elephants 'wiped out' by poachers: official
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Poachers "wiped out" the entire elephant herd in Sierra Leone's only wildlife park, wildlife managers said Thursday after police said they had arrested a gang of 10 poachers.
Chinese sage may provide alcoholism cure
Jul 27, 2007 |
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The active ingredient in Chinese medicinal sage could help alcoholics beat their addiction, Italian researchers said.
Link found between influenza, absolute humidity
Feb 09, 2009 |
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A new study by Oregon researchers has found a significant correlation between "absolute" humidity and influenza virus survival and transmission. When absolute humidity is low - as in peak flu months of January and February ...
Methamphetamine use in pregnancy changes learning ability of the offspring
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Studies have suggested that infants exposed to methamphetamines while in the womb can suffer irreversible brain damage, although the exact effects of these drugs during pregnancy have been hard to pinpoint due to many other ...
Fish kill has Calif. residents worried
Aug 31, 2007 |
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Local activists are worried about California's plan to dump chemicals into Lake Davis to stamp out northern pike.
How humans make up for an 'inborn' vitamin C deficiency
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Mar 20, 2008 |
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A new study appears to explain how humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an “inborn metabolic error”: an inability to produce vitamin C from glucose.
Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine more effective than traditional shot
Mar 12, 2008 |
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A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals than a comparable ...
