NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...licon surface. When photons from the sun's rays hit the silicon surface of a solar cell, they are absorbed by the electron of the silicon atom. The supercharged electron now has enough kinetic energy to leave the host atom. The solar cell collects the stream of liberated electrons on its surface, ther...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
...esity-related causes is about to rise. The hardest hit will be minorities, because of limited access to health care and because they have experienced the most rapid increases in obesity in recent years, according to the authors. It is well documented that obesity is associated with an increased risk of d...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
... note. Minority groups are expected to be hardest hit because of their reduced access to health care and...n. "The tsunami of childhood obesity has not yet hit the shore -- it takes many years for complications to develop," Ludwig says. "If the clock starts ti...Dartmouth researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
...We played music in the scanner [fMRI], and then we hit a virtual 'mute' button," says first author David Kraemer, a graduate student in Dartmouth's Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. "We found that people couldn't help continuing the song in their heads, and when they did this, the auditory cor......ther countries around the world, has been severely hit by an explosive HIV/AIDS epidemic. For the past 20 years, Karolinska Institutet has been carrying out AIDS research in Africa, predominantly in Tanzania, and is currently conducting tests of an HIV vaccine, the next phase of which involves trials on ...Jefferson scientists uncover potential trigger of diabetic kidney disease
...eins and free fatty acids go through the urine and hit these tubular cells. The tubular cells, via CD36, take them up and start the apoptosis pathway and ultimately cause fibrosis and progressive kidney failure as a result. We found almost all of the apoptotic cells had CD36 in them. If we block CD36 in ...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...e same target on CML cells as Gleevec does, and to hit more of the target." Gleevec shuts down CML by blocking the function of Bcr-Abl, the abnormal tyrosine kinase protein in the leukemic cells that causes them to grow too quickly. However, it does not bind very tightly to this protein, takes a long tim...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...raffic, including a "pace car" that intermittently hit its brakes 32 times as it appeared to drive in fro... of study participants. If a participant failed to hit their own brakes, they eventually would rear-end the pace car. Each participant drove four simulat...Disaster management: Better management of hospital resources and staff is the answer
...reparedness for disasters such as the tsunami that hit South East Asia amonthago, according to an article by J Christopher Farmer and colleagues, to bepublished in the journal Critical Care. To date, disaster medical response has predominantly focused on pre-hospitalissues such as triage, evacuation, and...People wounded in tsunami at risk of undetected fungal infections
...for treatment after being injured when the tsunami hit on December 26, 2004. The mainstay treatment for mucormycosis is early surgical intervention to remove all dead an infected tissue, along with intravenous and antifungal therapy. Mucormycosis has a high mortality rate even with aggressive surgical in...Mental health crisis looming for tsunami survivors, warns psychologist just back from Indonesia
...y of more than 250,000 people that was the hardest hit by the twin disasters. He worked in Indonesia helping to set up an emergency psychological trauma center and in recovering bodies of victims. "People are past the tears and the immediate loss, and now reflection sets in and trauma is beginning to s...A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
...DS pandemic." "Being from the continent worst hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has claimed more than twenty million lives and wiped out decades of development gains," said Pascoal Mocumbi, "I do believe that this scientific strategic plan will not only accelerate the development of a lifesaving HIV...Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy
...rials." Triple therapy for HIV/AIDS is designed to hit the virus with three or more antiretroviral drugs from two or more different classes at once in order to reduce the viral load (amount of virus circulating in the blood) so drastically that the virus is not replicating enough to mutate and become res...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...r more oxygen, but you may reach a point where you hit a wall and you can't do it anymore." The STAN S21 Fetal Heart Monitor system®, designed by Sweden-based Neoventa, Inc., now under study in some 800 labors in the United States, seems to take some of the educated guesswork out of whether there is ...Fair decisions more important when hospitals face crisis like SARS
...since the terrible consequences of the SARS crisis hit Toronto," she added. "It is important to remember and draw lessons from the difficulties inflicted on everyone -- medical personnel, SARS victims, non-SARS patients and their families alike."...Novel antibiotic shows promise in shortening treatment duration of tuberculosis
... of tuberculosis in countries that were previously hit by HIV," Andries says. "The HIV epidemic has worsened the TB epidemic substantially." TB is currently treated with a cocktail of antibiotics, including rifampin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide, which must be taken for six to nine months. The TB symptoms...Nursing homes register 41 percent drop in residents' pain
...ith tools to measure success, then make changes to hit their target. These changes are made and their success measured quickly. The "plan-do-study-act" process is ongoing, with refinements in practice made along the way. Researchers modified the model to include mentoring and information sharing. R...Researchers debate recreational use of PDE-5 inhibitors
...afil citrate, the first of the PDE-5 inhibitors to hit the market in treatment of ED in 1998, first got its start as a potential angina treatment. Since then, vardenafil (Levitra) and tadalafil (Cialis) have joined the scene, targeted at millions of men suffering from erectile dysfunction. Urologists e...Pharmacists want role in drug importation, study shows
...dy also found that community pharmacists are being hit with frequent inquiries from the public about how to obtain medications from outside the United States. Many pharmacists in Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan responded that they are not happy with the handling of the issue of drug importation by their......bodia and Russia, four nations that have been hard hit by the AIDS epidemic. The funds for the awards come from the Comprehensive International Program of Research on AIDS (CIPRA), which is administered by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes...