News tagged with behavioral antagonist


Walter Leal with Japanese Beetles

New research could lead to no scent, no sex for the Japanese beetle

Biology /

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

No scent. No sex. If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce.





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Recommended treatment for heart failure often underused

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Less than one-third of patients hospitalized for heart failure and participating in a quality improvement registry received a guideline-recommended treatment of heart failure, aldosterone antagonist therapy, according to ...


Cough medicine fights dyskinesias in Parkinson's

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 07, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A cough suppressant and a drug tested as a schizophrenia therapy curb the involuntary movements that are disabling side effects of taking the Parkinson's disease medication levodopa, Portland scientists have found.


USA and Europe different in aldosterone antagonists use in heart failure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study published today, in JAMA (October 21) by Nancy M. Albert and colleagues, exploring aldosterone antagonist usage among US patients hospitalised with heart failure, found that only one-third of patients meeting current ...


Could drugs for mood disorders, pain and epilepsy cause psychiatric disorders later in life?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young animals treated with commonly-prescribed drugs develop behavioral abnormalities in adulthood say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. The drugs tested include those used to treat epilepsy, mood disorders ...


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Most Americans dislike behavioral advertising: survey

Technology / Internet

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Privacy advocates have long criticized behavioral advertising and a new survey suggests that contrary to the claims of marketers, most Americans don't like it either.


Fatigue related to radiotherapy may be caused by inflammation

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients who experience fatigue during radiotherapy for breast or prostate cancer may be reacting to activation of the proinflammatory cytokine network, a known inflammatory pathway, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Re ...


New treatment mechanisms for schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The field of schizophrenia research has come alive with many exciting new potential approaches to treatment. From the introduction of chlorpromazine to the current day, all treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...


Old drugs need 'repurposing' for new uses, physician says

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 31, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Overly restrictive intellectual property laws devalue the "repurposing" of existing medications for new uses, slowing their availability as life-saving treatments, a Portland researcher contends.


Youths see all parental control negatively when there's a lot of it

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study has found that young people feel differently about two types of parental control, generally viewing a type of control that's thought to be better for their development more positively. However, when parents are ...


Study confirms association between tobacco smoke and behavioral problems in children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The scientists observed that the impact of tobacco smoke was especially detrimental during gestation. The results of the study have been published in the current online issue of the renowned journal Environmental Health Pe ...



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