Vioxx in high doses causes hypertension
....D., professor of Medicine, have been sounding the alarm about high-dose Vioxx use since 2002. In a study of TennCare participants published in the journal Lancet that year, the researchers reported patients on high doses of Vioxx had nearly twice the rate of serious heart problems, including heart attacks...New highways drive accelerating deforestation in Amazonia
...eforestation by other actors." Anticipating public alarm about the worsening deforestation trends, the Brazilian government recently announced new measures designed to slow Amazon forest loss. These measures include increased satellite monitoring of deforestation, and the involvement of additional governm...Current smoke alarms pass life-saving tests
...ed the need for immediate response to an activated alarm and showed that individuals caught in a flaming fi... the 17 minutes NIST recorded in its seminal smoke alarm tests in the 1970s," said Richard Bukowski, the NIST researcher who conducted both studies. "It conf......goes down in a storm, monitoring systems raise the alarm and repair crews are dispatched to the site. How does an axon 'raise the alarm' after damage in our own bodies? In a study published in Neuron, Dr. Michael Fainzilber and Ph.D. students Shlomit Hanz and Eran Pearlson of the Biological Chemistry Depar...Winter weather turns on flowering gene
...adison have an answer: a gene that functions as an alarm clock to rouse certain plants from a vegetative st...ion, suggesting that the VIN3 gene functions as an alarm clock rousing biennial plants to bloom. But how do plants know they've been exposed to the right ...Lewis and Clark notes reveal history of human impacts
...hem while feeding, without appearing to excite any alarm among them, and when we attract their attention, they frequently approach us more nearly to discover what we are." Animal populations decreased significantly near Native American settlements, the study showed. One interesting finding was that in are...Herpes research uncovers possible clue to Alzheimer's disease
...s stress that none of what they found should cause alarm among those who have at one time had a cold sore. According to Bearer, nearly 85 percent of us harbor the herpes simplex virus and most of us never develop Alzheimer's. The researchers discovered the interaction between the herpes simplex virus (HSV...... size of a tennis court. It must quickly sound the alarm when it detects a potentially harmful organism or molecule. But it must also tolerate a certain amount of irritation without calling out the inflammatory, disease-fighting tools, that can cause damage themselves. The two lung collectins, surfactant p...Emory scientists track down immune sentinel cells with gene gun
...nts on the dendritic cells' surfaces and sound the alarm to the rest of the immune system if they determine that those fragments are dangerous. Although other kinds of cells also have the ability to present fragments of foreign proteins to the immune system, dendritic cells are the most proficient, and im...Is there an unexpected price for late night high tech excitement?
...ect did not respond because he closed his eyes, an alarm rang and the number was counted. The 17-inch color-display was placed at eye level 45 cm in front of the subject. The screen of the display was 240 mm long and 325 mm wide. The screen of the BD was white with 120 cd/m2, and the screen of the DD was b...Researchers combine electronics with living cell to create potential toxicity sensor
...a "canary on a chip" that can be used to sound the alarm of a biochemical attack or test drug toxicity on human tissue. In a study appearing in the June 15 issue of Sensors and Actuators, researchers used a microchip to electrically determine cell viability by detecting changes in the electrical resistance...SARS pre-screening protocol developed for AACR Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
...oys more than 3,400 dedicated professionals in SOS alarm centers, clinics, and remote medical facilities....Black water turns the tide on Florida coral
...in the dark water. The "black water" event caused alarm among local fishermen, divers, and the public, as the color of the water was unusual and fish seemed to avoid this large area of dark water. Satellite instruments such as the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) aboard Orbimage's SeaStar s...An unexplored genomic terrain in a handful of dirt
...he phage's chance of reproduction. The presence of alarm clock sequences raises the question of whether these phages are mimicking mechanisms usually involved in the control and activation of tuberculosis latency, said Hatfull....Personal chemical agent detector ready for trials
...gh sensitivity, fast reaction time and a low false alarm rate. Field trials for the chemical detector are scheduled for April....Ecowar looming with sunken wartime wrecks
... left to corrode in peace, its rupture has sounded alarm bells across the Pacific. According to scientists with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), there are around 1080 wrecks from the Second World War littering the floor of the Pacific Ocean, many of which must be as corroded as the...Taste receptor cells share common pathway
...source, and bitter functions as a highly sensitive alarm sensor for dangerous chemicals., "So this experiment in selective rescue of these animals quite clearly showed that restoring one modality did not restore the others, demonstrating that taste receptor cells are not broadly tuned across all modalities...Soft drinks, teens and cavities
...ar in 1970 to 56 gallons in 1999. These statistics alarm dentists, who agree pouring rights contracts, in which schools accept advertising and sales deals to boost finances, has helped boost the amount of cavities in teens, which is reverting the oral health of many teens to a pre-fluoride condition, accor...Immune system component found common to both humans and worms
... of the overall immune response -- is to sound the alarm and jump start the body's response to pathogens. Researchers have known that key components of innate immunity are conserved across a variety of animals, and now scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have shown that these same elements a...... of Staph and other bacteria has caused widespread alarm that one day there may be many so-called superbugs resistant to all known antibiotics. Dr. Novick's laboratory has long been involved in Staph research with an aim to developing novel therapies to combat the bug. Staph is a particularly versa...