Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food
...the holiday these past few weeks, the dispersal of recall information was disrupted," says Sharon Center, a professor of veterinary medicine who specializes in liver function and disease at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, which is emerging as a central clearinghouse for information about the ...Researchers know what you were about to say; fMRI used to detect memory storage and retrieval
...g an event are activated when a person attempts to recall that event seconds before the memory surfaces. ...ntations to recreate an event." The inability to recall something is a common frustration. "An every-day strategy for getting at lost memories involves u...Obesity before pregnancy linked to childhood weight problems
...ild's race and ethnicity, and asked each mother to recall her pre-pregnancy weight, if she had smoked while pregnant and if she had breast-fed her child. Children were considered overweight if their body mass index (BMI) was greater than or equal to the 95th percentile for their age and gender. BMI is a mea...Your brain cells may 'know' more than you let on by your behavior
... met the wife of your work colleague but you can't recall her face," he gives as an example. Human memory relies mostly on association; when we try to retrieve information, one thing reminds us of another, which reminds us of yet another, and so on. Naturally, neurobiologists are putting a lot of effort int...Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds
...l that goes through that kind of transition has to recall how he relates to other males, and also has to be aware that he can change. This raises a bigger question about sophisticated social awareness in fish. After all, socialization requires more brainpower, and all vertebrates--fish, amphibians, birds, h...Preventing fetal exposure to popular acne drug
...ed on patient self-reporting and may be subject to recall error. "Nonetheless, women were surveyed prior to the outcome of the pregnancy, so we believe the responses provided in this report can be useful in elucidating important factors that hinder the success of pregnancy prevention programs," the authors ...The 'been there, done that' memory response
...f the neural oddities of "declarative" memory--the recall of past things and events--is that some experiment...g of recognizing the face, or "new" if they didn't recall seeing the face before. The fMRI scans revealed that the decrease in medial temporal lobe activity t...The evolutionary triumph of flower power
...ppeared when participants were tested for detailed recall of the flowers, booklet decorations and book entries. Flower power again triumphed: Those who received the most and the earliest flowers demonstrated the best memory. "Flowers have been ignored for the most part in the literature on plants and people...Bee mites suppress bee immunity, open door for viruses and bacteria
...nt pathology, who raised bees in China. "I do not recall seeing deformed wing bees in the Chinese bee. Chinese honey bees have grooming behavior which can remove the mites from the bees. They get rid of the mites." While researchers know that the Varroa mite is behind the death of bee colonies, the mec...Season of birth influences age of menopause, say Italian researchers
...re some limitations to the study a possibility of recall bias, and it involved women referred to menopause centres rather than the general population. Also, the effect of seasons may differ in different geographic areas. "Nevertheless, the data seem to suggest notable effects of the month/season of birth o...Research news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
...which relied on tissue samples rather than patient recall of dietary fat intake, found that there is a probable link between polyunsaturated fat intake and a slower growth of cancer." The study measured the level of fats in prostate tissue from men with localized prostate cancer. Tissue specimens were coll...Physicians recommend screening for toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women, newborns
...he group found that 52 percent of mothers couldn't recall an illness of any kind during pregnancy or identify risk factors, including ingestion of undercooked meats and or exposure to cat litter. The physicians also found that demographics play no role in the occurrence of infections. "Acute toxoplasmosis a...How the brain creates false memories
...e subjects took a memory test, which asked them to recall details such as where the man hid, and which presentation--the first, second, or both--contained that information. Memory for a misinformation item was scored as a false memory only if the subject attributed the item to either the original presentati...Wistar study demonstrates heritability of non-genomic information
...tirely true. These recent observations necessarily recall the theories of 19th Century scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who postulated that traits acquired by parents during their lives could be passed on to their offspring. Lamarck's ideas about evolutionary process were overtaken in subsequent years by th...New Italian research links migraine and endometriosis
...suffered from migraine. Although we can't rule out recall bias, the women with endometriosis reported a lower age at onset than the controls. But, our results did indicate that migraine severity was similar in women with and without endometriosis and was not related to the severity of the endometriosis eith...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
... a brain region involved in learning, storage, and recall of memories. Kristen Brunson, a senior member of Tallie Z. Baram's group, and her colleagues, found that limiting the nesting material in cages where neonatal rats lived with their mothers led to emotional stress of both the mothers and their p...Coke versus Pepsi: It's all in the head
...ce and activates memory-related brain regions that recall cultural influences. Thus, say the researchers, they have shown neurologically how a culturally based brand image influences a behavioral choice. These choices are affected by perception, wrote the researchers, because "there are visual images and ma......- The pathogen responsible for a precooked chicken recall last summer will become easier to detect in ready-... grocery stores in Maryland and New York, when the recall was issued. "To overcome the time delay and allow for rapid detection before foods are s...