Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
... and a better "mental grasp of objects" -- fitting building blocks into the correct spaces, identifying pictures and remembering shapes, patterns and locations, the results showed. When not receiving testosterone, the men showed improved verbal fluency and verbal memory -- making up sentences, defining words ...Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...uilding codes to require every hotel and apartment building to provide an air-conditioned lobby." "Relatives, friends and neighbors can harbor more people than the largest public shelter." "Churches, synagogues and mosques can help by reinforcing key safety messages. They should also open their fac...Fertilization Protein Structure To AID in Leukemia Treatment
...y messenger is synthesized inside the egg from the building blocks of DNA. The synthesis reaction requires a ...ins. Inside this cavity the protein traps the DNA building blocks and rearranges their pattern of chemical bonds to synthesize the messenger. In leukem...Mother's Milk: Nutrition And Nurture For Infants -- And The Best Defense Against Disease
...ionship engendered by breastfeeding contributes to building a close bondbetween mother and child. Together, these factors promote the physical andemotional growth and development of the infant. Long known to be true, too, is that breast-fed babies experience fewerand less serious incidences of disease...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...re for children and hope for their families. He is building this new therapywhile we are building our new Children's Hospital. "I hope that his efforts and ours converge in the near future andthat ...Enhancing Night Visibility Using UV Technology To Be Tested On Virginia Tech's Smart Road
... projectis one more step in VDOT's progress toward building "smart" highways, an overallplan to use the best technologies to make our transportation system increasinglysafe and efficient for motorists." The Smart Road, recently begun between Blacksburg and I-81 in MontgomeryCounty, is a planned 5.7-mi...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...es eachyear and seat belts add $200 to the cost of building them. Studies say thatseat belts save about 2,000 lives a year. It costs about $2 billion a year toput seat belts in cars and it saves about 2,000 lives. That's a million dollarsper life saved. "With public access defibrillation, if we too...Identification Of Brain Areas Could Help Eliminate Side Effects Of Pain Medication
...liminate these side effects of pain medication by building another molecule to tag onto the opioid molecule. This way the opioid could block the pain, and this new molecule could prevent the side effects." Specifically, Lydic and his team have discovered that this set of neurons may account for morphin...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
... of amino acids -- the chemical units that are the building blocks of proteins. The linear chains self-assemble into a three-dimensional structure stabilized by linking with chemical bonds between two residues of amino acids. These cross-linkings hold everything together. The knedel is constructed in a s...Filmless System Puts X-Ray Images On The Web
...nutes and can help colleagues inother parts of the building or in outside offices make medical decisions. Forpatients, it reduces the time they must wait for medical results," adds Dr.Templeton. "It will also significantly lower medical costs by eliminatingduplication of studies and reducing the length of hos...The Health Consequences Of Nuclear Arms Trade In The Subcontinent Should Not Be Overlooked
...om the Aga Khan University in Pakistan laments the building of the nuclear arms race in the subcontinent and writes that "...the enormous costs of nuclear weapons must be weighed against the abysmal state of human development and health in south Asia." He notes that the region boasts over half of all the mal...The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
...irtual prototyping," created on a computer without building physical models of the devices, EAI's morphing software is expected to save considerable time and money.......drugs and other useful materials from much simpler building blocks [thanare currently used]." Nature, he says...l and naturalplant oils, provide a cheap source of building blocks for Click Chemistry,Sharpless says. Simple reactions create "sticky spots" on olefins, which ...Comprehensive Effort Needed To Prevent And Treat Traumatic Injuries
...eir ability to gain access to guns and ammunition; building features into gunsto reduce the risk of accidental...rized use if the gun does get intotheir hands; and building community coalitions to make youth environments safer. In addition to the success in reducing motor ...Cancer Added To Hangover Headaches
..." effects,has been shown to damage certain genetic building blocks. Now scientists haveshown that those damaged parts are efficiently inserted into DNA. The findings appear in the Jan. 19 print edition of the journal Biochemistry,published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientificsoci...Public And Private Healthcare Must Pool Resources To Beat Cancer
...ture of cancer centres and units that is gradually building up throughout the UK." He also suggests that "as well as developing the treatments of the future such a centre would monitor the availability of care throughout the United Kingdom and ensure equity of access (and) act as a gold standard for cancer ...Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
... hard to focus on,and Truluck's program could be a building block for more accessible voices,he said. "When we get into the process of humans and computers communicating witheach other, we want to be as natural as possible," Dankel said....New Book (And Web Site) Use 'Currency' Of Aging To Guide And Motivate Healthy Choices
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