Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
...ry added. "If six months after enactment, we see a flood of NIH-funded research posted on PubMed Central, then we will be among the first to celebrate. However if the vast majority of taxpayer-funded NIH research produced during this timeframe is not yet available to be used by scientists, patients, physic...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
... great scar. The scar has the value of holding the flood water back but forms an impenetrable barrier to the cars. "The way out of the impasse came from the discovery that there is one part of the nervous system, and only one, in which nerve fibres are in a state of continuous growth throughout adult life....TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
...Red Sea Hills, while another team seeks to develop flood forecasting and early warning system for the Gash River, shared between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and prone to burst its banks once every five years. Major changes that have occurred in wetland environments in Senegal, Chad and Liberia during the......3 Gambian villages that were close to the alluvial flood plain and so were at high risk of developing malaria. They randomly assigned the 372 volunteers to receive either two doses of the malaria vaccine or three doses of rabies vaccine, which acted as a control. This three-dose schedule is similar to the ...U. Va. researchers unravel a central mystery of how hearing happens
... trap door, allowing potassium and calcium ions to flood into the cells. Because these elements carry a positive charge, an electrical signal is generated which is relayed to the brain for interpretation." Now that this genetic link to hearing has been established, Holt said, geneticists can examine ...Long-sought key to hearing may be found in protein discovery
...g them, yanking open the channels to allow ions to flood into the cilia. The resulting voltage change activates the conversion of sound to a nerve signal. Then, the cilia bend back and ion channels snap shut. "Hair cells convert a mechanical stimulus into an electrical signal with molecular, strings, spr...Envisat Symposium report day 4: Assistance from space to combat hazards and natural disasters
When is a flood not a flood? For the duration of the International...he country's southern Lake Mjǿsa is in fact a flood zone in the imaginary country of 'Innlandia', inundated by a combination of heavy rainfall and a neg...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...so contains potential challenges. For example, the flood of information from 3D imaging may make it easier to miss important parts of the image data. Finally, in a paper called "The Future of Radiotherapy," T. Rockwell Mackie of the University of Wisconsin ( trmackie@wisc.edu ) predicts that the use of pr...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Amid the flood of recent news about America's uninsured, a new study finds a troubling undercurrent: millions of low-income children whose health care gets interrupted because they start the year with one kind of insurance, but end it with another kind -- or go wit...Newly-described route to cancer solves a mystery in lung cancer
...l function," he says. The other is gene therapy to flood the tumor with active FUS1 genes - a phase I clinical trial currently under way at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. In order to design corrective treatments, Roth, Ji, and a team of researchers have been working for years to piece together a picture of ...Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
...the body to "fight, flee, or freeze." The hormonal flood also strengthens the brain's ability to form and retain emotional memories. The longer the duration of the adrenergic activation, the more vivid and tenacious are the memories of the event. In most people, after minutes to hours the reaction begins t...Comfort-food cravings may be body's attempt to put brake on chronic stress
... of the chronic stress system - which stimulates a flood of hormonal signaling from the hypothalamus to the...line rush," in which the adrenal glands initiate a flood of hormonal signals that quicken the heart rate, constrict the vasculature to prevent bleeding to de...Higher education or larger brain size may protect against dementia later in life, new study finds
...er and better constructed dam is able to prevent a flood from occurring during a major storm. "Head circumference is completely determined by age 12, at which time maximum brain size is attained. However, because education is a lifelong process, it is possible that elderly people can delay or even prevent ...Map data goes live with voice, gesture-based computer system
...first generation, the technology also can indicate flood areas and emergency shelters. While DAVE_G currently relies on text to respond or ask for more information if queries aren't clear, eventually it will talk to its questioners. Subsequent generations also will provide a broader range of geospatial in...Does your brain shutdown with Alzheimer's?
..., channels on the cell surface open up to let in a flood of calcium ions. This upsets the chemical balance ...ology, the plaques appear to promote an additional flood of ions that destroys the potential difference that exists between the inside and the outside of a c...Bangladesh flood and drought forecasting could bring farmers, cholera victims relief
... Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. "What began as a flood forecasting plan has turned into a broader study of climate change," said Webster. If sea rise in the region increases 1 meter by 2050 as some models indicate, half of Bangladesh will be underwater, displacing 100 million people. "We now understand ......ter zoning and building codes to minimize storm or flood damage; increased use of mass transit to reduce urban air pollution; improved disease surveillance and prevention programs; and further education of health professionals and the public about climate/health risks. Speaking of vulnerable U.S. subpo......f Public Health. "The self-referral option is like flood insurance for your home. You hope you never need it, but you feel better knowing that its there," adds Dr. Weiner....Stress levels can affect success of pneumonia vaccinations
...nst the virus are produced and flood the bloodstream. And second, the body produces killer T-lymphocytes that can identify cells infected by the virus and kill them. But with bacterial infections - like pneumonia - the killer ...CDC funds will enable UNC-CH to help minimize domestic violence in flood areas
...year's Hurricane Floyd continue to haunt some N.C. flood victims long after the last emergency vehicle has ... staff to continue and boost their efforts to help flood victims avoid such problems in Lenoir, Wayne, Duplin and Sampson counties. With future federal suppo...