Childhood infections stunt growth, shorten life
...untries with highlevels of infectious diseases and inadequate medical care....Optimal adjuvant radiation therapy associated with improved survival, meta-analysis shows
...me clinical trials, radiation therapy was given in inadequate or excessive doses or did not target an appropriat...category 2, for studies where patients received an inadequate or excessive dose of radiation; and category 3, for studies in which an inadequate amount of tissue ...Losing sleep undoes the rejuvenating effects new learning has on the brain
... more closely mimic the common human experience of inadequate sleep during the work week, said lead investigator Ilana Hairston of both the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. The paper, "Sleep restriction suppresses neurogenesis induced by hippocampus-dependent learning," appears in th...Increased sexual competition among flowering plants in biodiversity hotspots may lead to extinctions
...e relationship between local species diversity and inadequate pollination at the global level can be detected only by looking at hundreds of species. "Fruit and seed production in some species may be especially vulnerable to low pollinator activity," she said. "But it's the global pattern that's particularly im...Defusing a time bomb: Heart attack risk-detection technology developed at UH
...ase and its aggravating factors, such as diabetes, inadequate physical activity and obesity, sudden cardiac death is a major concern with the majority of deaths occurring in apparently healthy people."...Women pregnant with girls experience more severe asthma symptoms
...pact on the severity of mother's asthma, including inadequate medical management of asthma symptoms, and whether the mother was a smoker or not," said Bracken, who also co-directs the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology. The authors speculate that testosterone, secreted by the ma...Prestigious 2005 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Norman R. Augustine
...stressed the threat to U.S. national security from inadequate investment in research and S&T education. After retiring from the industrial sector in 1997, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He has been a trustee of Johns Hopkins University, ...'Shuttling' protein possibly key to resilience of cancer cells
...edominantly located in the cytoplasm because of an inadequate amount of c-Jun in the nucleus, suggesting it is likely that overexpressed ATF2 also may be localized in the cytoplasm in cancer cells, Hu said. The Purdue researchers not only discovered that ATF2 is localized in the cytoplasm of the mouse cancer st...Warbling whales speak a language all their own
...than humpback whale songs. The Markov model proved inadequate for the whale song's complex structure. Information theory, in contrast, proved perfect for analyzing humpback whale songs because it provided a quantitative analysis of the complexity and structure of the songs. "Information theory was the right ch...Racial disparities in cancer not as simple as black and white
...ance, poverty, language and cultural barriers, and inadequate access to early detection services and good medical care. Research reported today at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) suggests that genetics, in addition to socioeconomic status, are important factors acc...Cancerous vs. healthy cells: Researchers identify the road to success
...herapy. However, current therapies are considered inadequate to fight this deadly disease and researchers have been trying to identify new targets and develop new agents with different mechanisms of action to help increase patients' survival. PTEN-Loss Mediated Herceptin (trastuzumab) Resistance and Targeti...American and Dutch experts to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California
...lood risks that exist in the United States and the inadequate attention that is given to the levee infrastructure nationwide. A leader in water resources planning and flood-risk management, Galloway has called for a comprehensive national water policy to address these issues. Jeffery Mount, professor of geolo...Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says
...rtment's mad cow disease-testing program is wholly inadequate and the agency's refusal to let processors do their own testing further undercuts the safety of American beef, a University of Illinois scholar writes. Eating meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, can ca...Most extensive survey ever of world's tropical forests shows upward trend in sustainable management
.... Political and economic instability combined with inadequate enforcement of forest laws have also led to the sp...cement and management are woefully and chronically inadequate - trained staff, vehicles and equipment are all in short supply, while systems for monitoring and re...Diagnostic breakthrough for Burkitt lymphoma reported in NEJM
... is typically used to treat DLBCL, this regimen is inadequate for Burkitt lymphoma, which requires intensive chemotherapy. In addition, because of the high risk of central nervous system involvement with Burkitt lymphoma, it is essential that intrathecal or systemic chemotherapy that crosses the blood-brain bar...Fake malaria drug implicated in Burmese man's death
...ug) was reported in Tanzania in 2001. "Because of inadequate systems for the monitoring of the quality of antimalarial medicines in Africa," say the authors, "and because few have looked for it, counterfeit artesunate may already be widespread." "We make no apology for the use of the term manslaughter to desc...How IVF could be causing genetic errors in embryos
...ormalities), pseudohypoparathyroidism Ib (involves inadequate levels of calcium and excessive levels of phosphates in the blood), and GH-secreting adenomas (type of tumour). Of these, the greatest changes in gene expression were seen in Cd81 (consistently over-expressed in all media) and H19 (consistently und...Marine protected areas not sufficient to protect global biodiversity
...nately, actions to reverse such a crisis were very inadequate in most countries. We found that although about 19% of the world's coral reefs were within designated protected areas, only 0.01 to 2% of the world's reefs were really protected." "Marine protected areas are the prime strategy for the conservation of...World's coral reefs left vulnerable by paper parks
...ide, actions to reverse such a crisis are woefully inadequate in most countries," says Dr. Camilo Mora, a scientist at Dalhousie University and lead author of the study. "Clearly, lines on the map are not enough to protect the world's coral reefs." The authors recommend that protected areas need to be enforced ......ide, actions to reverse such a crisis are woefully inadequate in most countries," says Dr. Camilo Mora, a scientist at Dalhousie University and lead author of the study. "Clearly, lines on the map are not enough to protect the world's coral reefs." The authors recommend that protected areas need to be enforced ...