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Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week in open access journal PLoS Medicine. The hu ...





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Seasonal weight changes linked to metabolic syndrome

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seasonal changes in weight increase the risk for metabolic syndrome, a group of scientists from National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland, reports in a study published in the January 23 issue of the online, open-access ...


Climate change enhances grassland productivity

Climate change enhances grassland productivity

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

More frequent freeze-thaw cycles in winter can increase biomass production according to the results of a recent study conducted by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Bayreuth ...


Caltech scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...


Drosophila melanogaster

Siestas Among the Drosophilae

Biology /

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Isaac Edery is concerned with biological clocks, internal mechanisms that enable virtually all plants and animals to behave in rhythmic biological cycles known as circadian rhythms.


Models simulate nitrate dynamics in Garonne, Southwest France

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The over-enrichment of fresh, transitional, and marine waters with nitrogen (N) can lead to problems associated with eutrophication, such as a change in species composition of aquatic plants and nuisance algal blooms. In ...


Health experts: Kids should get seasonal flu shot

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year - a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.


Asthma a significant risk factor for complications in children with H1N1

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study on pediatric H1N1 influenza admissions has found that asthma is a significant risk factor for severe disease in children with pandemic H1N1 compared with the seasonal flu. The study, led by researchers from The ...


American adults receiving flu vaccine at about the same rate as in 2008, study finds

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American adults are not being vaccinated against the seasonal flu any more often than they were last year, despite increased public discussion of the importance of influenza vaccines resulting from the worldwide outbreak ...


H1N1 more risky than seasonal flu in children with sickle cell disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infection with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, causes more life-threatening complications than seasonal flu in children with sickle cell disease, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The findings, to ...


Desert dust alters ecology of Colorado alpine meadows

Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (50) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerated snowmelt--precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains--changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to results ...



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