Race Plus Roaches: A Breathtaking Link
...ner-city are hospitalized three times as often and die five times more often from asthma than those of other races. The study included 66 boys and 21 girls, 48 Caucasian and 39 African-American children from 37 urban and 50 suburban homes. All had moderate to severe allergic asthma. The researchers hu...Genetic Alterations Linked To Cancer In Some Blood Samples
...est that cancer cells circulating in the blood may die and release DNA, which is carried through the bloodstream by plasma." In an accompanying study in Nature Medicine, a team from Switzerland (also co-authors of the Hopkins study) found genetic alterations in the blood plasma of over 70 percent of pati...Overweight Cats Risk Disease And Premature Death, Cornell Study Finds
...elves properly. Obese cats are twice as likely to die in middle age, which for cats is 6 to 12 years. Extremely thin cats are more likely to be presented to veterinarians for diarrhea. Veterinarians in the survey ranked the cats, from extremely thin to optimal to obese, after physically examining the ...Duke Study Shows Early Marrow Transplant Key To 'Bubble Boy' Disease Cure
...be more common, researchers say,because babies who die of a simple infection often are not given an autopsy. "Without an immune system, a patient is completely vulnerable toinfection. A pathogen that would be harmless to a person with normal immunitywould destroy a SCID patient. Until 1982, SCID wa......o. She has seen chicks hatch and slowly starve and die as the mother patiently waits for her foraging mate to return. Often, the parents will have only enough food for one chick, and the sibling is left to starve. "The rule seems to be, feed the heaviest chick first," says Boersma. "If a chick is small, ...Jefferson Scientists Find Potential Deadly Effects Of Two Missing Cancer-Suppressor Genes
...uppressor genes, p53 and MSH2, stop growing and die a little more than a week after conception. ...aps two to three times as quickly as they might die with only one missing gene. They expected that. But they didn't expect to find that the combinati...Researchers To Investigate Years Before Menopause
...gg precursors begin to grow, but normally most die off, leaving one egg per cycle to ovulate. As women age, they have fewer and fewer follicles left until no follicles remain. The standard medical definition of menopause is 12 continuous months without menstrual bleeding. Because the...Lethal Parasite Prime Suspect In Fish Kills At Salton Sea
...levels in fish. Healthy fish in aquaria can die after only 12 hours of exposure to Amyloodinium. ... typically very low, and they do not usually die from the infestation. When present at levels as high as those detected in tilapia from ...Gene For Last Major Form Of Batten Disease Discovered
... course of the disease, and most affected children die by age fifteen. To be affected with any form of NCL, a child must receive two defective copiesof the gene, one from each parent. People with only one defective copy of thegene do not develop the disease, but can pass the gene on to their children....New Mechanism To Explain Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Identified
...eddeaths in the United States. Thousands of people die annually from accidentallyinhaling the tasteless and odorless gas. Major exposures to deadly levels of COare associated with house fires and faulty furnaces and water heaters. However,CO is ubiquitous: Auto emissions and tobacco smoke account for muc...Growth Factor Stimulation Leads To Increase In New Neurons In The Striatum And Cortex Of The Brain
...ating neurological diseases: GABA-containing cells die inHuntington?s disese and TH-containing cells die leading to Parkinson's disease. The researchers hope their findings may reveal new ways of p...Virologists Track New Influenza Threat
...her this virus will take off or die off in people," Kawaoka said, "but the ...e said. "This could very well die out like the swine flu did in 1976, but I wouldn't bet on it," Hinshaw said. "We ...Termites' Attraction To Small Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide Lures Pests To Their Deaths
...st locate roots within three days afterhatching or die of starvation. Bjostad developed several pellets containingnatural ingredients that slowly release the gas. The pellets, buried at cornplanting time, steer rootworm larvae off-course. Bjostad's recent discoveries with termites and rootworm po...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
...rms, there were fears that many might die from noxious gases produced from burning kerosene lamps or stoves to keep warm. Now, physicist Dr. Bijan Miremadi has developed a unique gas sensing unit that could prevent disasters caused by dangerous gases ...Study Finds Gene Is Associated With Higher Risk Of One Kind of Stroke Among African-Americans
...ence of ICH than Caucasians, and that they tend to die at a higher rate,"Alberts said. While not nearly as common as strokes caused by blockages invessels in the brain (85 percent of all strokes), ICHs are much more severe,with a mortality rate approaching 50 percent, Alberts said. "This study d...Johns Hopkins Scientists Designing Compounds To Fight Malaria
...s many as 3 million of them, mostly children, will die everyyear. The most severe form of the infection is caused by tinyparasites called Plasmodium falciparum, which are transmitted byfemale mosquitos feeding on human blood. The drug of choice to combat malaria has been chloroquine, aderivative of quin...Researchers Investigate Years Before Menopause
... of egg precursors begin to grow, butnormally most die off leaving one egg per cycle to ovulate. As women age, theyhave fewer and fewer follicles left until no follicles remain. The standard medical definition of menopause is 12 continuous monthswithout menstrual bleeding. Because the follicles...Jefferson Researchers Find Correlation Between Gene And Endometrial Cancer
... be, and the greater the likelihood the woman will die from the disease. The finding may eventually le...ing disease. The women were also more likely to die of the cancer. They report their findings in the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology....Research Indicates Molecule Sabotage May Slow Brain Cancer
...ricans find out they have a glioma. More than half die within 18 months because the tumors often outsmartconventional treatments, such as surgery. Gliomas arise from brain support cells called glia. The cells growfuriously until they form a mass known as a tumor. "Gliomas are exceptionallydi...Rockefeller University Researchers Hunt For Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Genes
...e people are not diagnosed. Over 150,000 Americans die each yearbecause of this disease. The mortality and morbidity of diabetes are due to thecomplications of the disease affecting the eye (retinopathy), the nervous system(neuropathy), the kidney (nephropathy), and cardiovascular disease associatedwith ...