Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...n Thursday's issue of Science Express, the results show larger than expected emissions across tropical land regions. The report concerns work carried out by the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) at the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KMNI...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...r analyses of heartbeat dynamics from participants show a significant circadian rhythm, including a notable response at the circadian phase corresponding to 10 a.m., the time of day most often linked to adverse cardiac events in individuals with heart disease. Circadian rhythm, however, does not affect m...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...design," Good says. Down the line, if the polymers show promise in human studies, they could be developed into injectable drugs or even pills to slow the progress of the disease, she says. The likely candidates for such drugs would be people who have not yet developed signs of the disease but who may be a...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...age and obesity such studies have not been able to show an increased risk. Jose Marin (Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Spain) and colleagues recruited 264 healthy men matched for age and body mass index, 377 simple snorers, 403 with untreated severe disease and 372 with the disease and treated with......h effect. Studies comparing spirits, beer and wine show some benefit from spirits and beer, but an overwhelming benefit from drinking red wine. His laboratory found polyphenols, minus the alcohol, are powerful anti-oxidants. Polyphenols also are found in fruit, particularly berries, as well as green tea...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...hlamydia, and herpes. A growing number of studies show condoms reduce the impact of HPV infection. IDSA and HIVMA are calling for legislation funding abstinence-only education programs to be modified to reflect scientific evidence. They also call for repeal of the requirement that one-third of preventio...9.2 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in 2004 - up 5%
...ent from 2000, reports the ASPS. "These statistics show a strong, continued, and healthy increase in cosmetic surgery that mirrors the 4.4 percent economic growth of the United States," said ASPS President Scott Spear, MD. "However, there is no evidence in the statistics to support that TV programs have ...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...e imaging, or fMRI. Unlike standard MRI scans that show anatomical structures in black and white, fMRI off...en patients and controls, Belger said. "We need to show that the tool is reliable and that, indeed, it's detecting something in the population that it's not...Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...ew finding by Mayo Clinic researchers continues to show promise. In the March 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research, ( http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/future/65.6.shtml ) investigators describe discovering a key molecule that controls the growth, spread and survival of pancreatic cancer cells. This i...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...d Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Our results show that direct involvement from a nurse practitioner and a community health worker is far more effective at helping patients lower their risk factors than the standard in which patients are on their own to follow - or not follow - their doctors' orders....Fixing of the lumbar column aided by simple radiological techniques
...ethod has detected that the TAC image obtained can show that part of the screw is outside the vertebra when, in reality, this is not the case!...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
...0 years and older have been infected with EBV, but show no symptoms. "Viruses that are associated with ca...man B cells is currently underway. Initial studies show that the growth of EBV-associated cancer cells can be inhibited in tissue-culture assays. The invest...Neuronal death and processing of Tau protein in Alzheimer's disease
...rating the proapoptotic fragments.The authors also show that this effect is significantly potentiated by incubation with the amyloid peptide A-beta 25-35, a peptide included in the A-beta fragment (the constituent of extraneuronal senile plaques, another hallmark of the disease). One of the intersections ...Researchers say breast cancer in Africa may provide clues to the disease in African-Americans
...ase the risk of breast cancer. Population studies show while African American women have lower rates of breast cancer than white women in the United States, they have poorer outcomes. African American women are also more likely to get breast cancer at a younger age, and among women in the U.S. under the ...Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
...nosis as a technique to manage pain because we can show an objective, measurable change in brain activity linked to a reduced perception of pain," he added. In addition to Schulz-Stubner, the research team included Timo Krings, M.D., Ingo Meister, M.D., Stefen Rex, M.D., Armin Thron, M.D., Ph.D. and Rolf ...Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
... advanced non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer show that those patients who received bevacizumab (Avastin TM ) in combination with standard chemotherapy lived longer than patients who received the same chemotherapy without bevacizumab. The clinical trial was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute ...Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance
...determine if individuals who stop binge drinking show a reversal of mood and executive deficits." Duka added that researchers already know that people will self medicate with alcohol if suffering from symptoms of anxiety or depression. "We need to know also whether binge drinking will contribute to anx...Routine dental panoramic X-rays not necessary, study shows
...en a panoramic X-ray can be done. But our results show it isn't necessary routinely for every single patient." As the name implies, panoramic X-rays provide a wide view of the teeth, jaws and surrounding structures and tissues. Patients have a panoramic X-ray taken for an initial evaluation, followed by...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
...erweight or obese as adults. But in this paper, we show that even children in the high normal weight range have an elevated risk of becoming overweight or obese as adults," said lead author Alison Field, assistant professor of pediatrics at HMS and Children's Hospital Boston. According to the Centers for......eports, scientists at the Health Protection Agency show that 21,115 adults diagnosed with HIV in England Wales, and Northern Ireland between 1985 and 2003 were infected through heterosexual intercourse. Of these, 1,901 (9%) were probably infected in the United Kingdom. Sixty two per cent (1,179) had a sex...