Nation on the verge of 'new era in modern river management'
...other river restoration projects are no longer the futile dreams of a few rabid ecologists," Lowry said. "Dams that once seemed invincible have fallen to public pressure and been removed. It's a trend that is bound to accelerate in coming years." Lowry is not out to dismantle every lock and dam in America....New study clarifies connection of brain and heart failure
...eral and central compensatory systems persist in a futile effort to restore homeostasis. The clinical approach to the heart failure syndrome is complicated by the fact that these compensatory mechanisms are initially supportive but are ultimately detrimental. The challenge is to develop therapeutic strategi...Smoking decreases men's chances of fatherhood by IVF and ICSI
... it represents a needless risk to women undergoing futile hormonal stimulation, as well as an unnecessary financial burden." He concluded: "It can be assumed that quitting smoking will be beneficial to couples undergoing IVF or ICSI. However, we do not know how long the damaging effects of smoking last af...Protein research illustrates how drugs fight malaria, other diseases
...damage to the host cell. "But such efforts will be futile if our models for selective drug action are incomplete," he said. In the current research, Zhang and Rathod found that parasites are sensitive to drugs that target their DHFR in part because of their inability to rapidly replenish the dead enzyme. Ho...PET changes staging and treatment for newly diagnosed and recurrent lung cancer patients
...a poor prognosis to receive palliative rather than futile curative therapy, the patient is spared the often harrowing effects of the treatments. The costs are also reduced as unproductive treatments are reduced." Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in western society, and is increasing in i...UCSF study finds two old drugs may help fight prion diseases
...ssion of the disease, though they could also prove futile in prolonging the patients' lives. Alternatively, the drugs could prove ineffective in patients with advanced disease, but ultimately prove effective as prophylactics in patients who are infected with prions but who do not yet show symptoms. This st......sts, a persuasive indictment of our ongoing - and futile - chemicalbattle to rid ourselves of the animals and plants that we consider pests.But more than that, the book questions our fundamental values about thenatural world, and the human compulsion to dominate and destroy, ratherthan accommodate and mana...