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...nts that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves … ammonia air pollution … decoys that stop viruses … beefed-up plastic wrap … a vitamin for cancer prevention … new fuels … a kinder, gentler aspirin …and more at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society......molecules of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen rearrange themselves to form carbon dioxide and water. This reaction releases the energy that drives the engine. Air, the engine's source of oxygen, does not contain enough oxygen to react fully with gasoline, so some hydrocarbons remain unburned. The energy thus lost...Process may help scientists find new antibacterial drugs
...rchers interested in making new beta-lactams found themselves confronted with two primary obstacles: cost, and a tricky property called chirality. Chiral compounds are compounds that can appear in a left-handed or a right-handed form, Lectka explains, noting that each form is known as an enantiomer. Like a pai......-degree program is designed for students preparing themselves for careers in academic medicine. It combines a thorough medical education with rigorous graduate training in a basic science, leading to both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. Currently, 15 students are selected yearly for this prestigious program, funded, ...Government asks UNC to develop school program about alcohol and birth defects
... pre-teens about doing science as they explore for themselves the effects of alcohol on developing organisms. Student excitement always has a multiplier effect at home - which a lecturing approach in school toward alcohol use never does - so it would not be surprising if family members of childbearing age learn......he researchers wondered might divers be subjecting themselves to greater risks for decompression sickness and nitrogen narcosis? Nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness result from inhaling compressed air. Nitrogen narcosis is attributed to the depth of a dive and occurs when divers become disoriented and...Drug therapy significantly extends lifespan of worms
...onvert oxygen radicals to water, then reconstitute themselves in a cogwheel-like process that continues to destroy additional oxygen radicals as long as the drugs remain in the body. Since the early 1970s, Dr. Wallace and his colleagues in Emory's Center for Molecular Medicine have been studying mitochondria ...Non-pathogenic bacteria block inflammatory response pathway in intestinal tract
...ock inflammatory pathways and create tolerance for themselves and perhaps other organisms," said Dr. Neish. "It turns out that some non-pathogenic bacteria have a significant reciprocal ecological interaction with the host. The host can mount an immune response to control resident bacteria, but even non-patho...Rapid improvements in lower back care possible
... in large organizations, focusing on problems they themselves identified," said Deyo, of the University of Washington, Seattle. According to Deyo and colleagues from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement the ideal way to treat lower back pain involves extensive use of patient education and self-care and more...OHSU researchers reveal how bacteria crawl on surfaces
...robes use threadlike protein filaments to manuever themselves into position. In addition, these threads called pili, signal to human cells in a process that may promote bacterial invasion. These are some of the conclusions of a study conducted at OHSU and printed in the Sept. 7 edition of the journal Nature. Th...Study suggests greater pressure on family care as baby boom ages
..., and in the percent of active caregivers who were themselves quite old. Nearly one-quarter of primary caregivers in 1994 were 75 or older. The researchers report their findings in the September issue of The Milbank Quarterly. There was little change in the caregiving by those in the "Sandwich Generation." T...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
... words, the more expensive catheters might pay for themselves - and then some. "These results are exciting from the perspective of both quality of care and cost. If our estimates of improved patient safety and lower hospital costs bear out in reality, the switch to coated catheters should be a no-brainer for ...BU receives Knight Foundation grant
...r establishing this center. Reporters, who are not themselves scientists or physicians, are often faced with the challenge of explaining scientific and medical advances to the general public. In creating this center, the Knight Foundation recognizes the increasing need in our technological civilization for info...Survey finds chronic pain sufferers unsatisfied with pain treatments
... sexual relations (28 percent) and ability to feed themselves (7 percent). In their search for relief, many chronic pain patients reported extensive efforts. On average, they have seen three physicians for their pain and have taken 3.7 different kinds of prescription medications as part of their pain treatment...Researchers identify new genetic risk factor for HIV infection
...t Dr. Murphy cautions that people should not think themselves immune. "If you stand in the way of a speeding truck," he says, "the risk of death is very high."......ew research shows carers at risk of mental illness themselves According to a new study from the Institute of Psychiatry, schizophrenia affects the mental and physical well being of caregivers from its earliest stages. The findings, published in the December issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, are bein...... 6 are at significantly increased risk of injuring themselves falling out of bed. Especially if they sleep in the upper bunk of a bunk bed, finds a study in Injury Prevention. Over 8,000 children attended the Accident and Emergency Department of a children's hospital in Scotland during a five month audit in 199...Attitudes to body weight might explain some of the difference in weight across socioeconomic groups
... They were also significantly less likely to weigh themselves regularly, watch their weight, and to actively diet. Despite having less of a weight problem, more men and women from the highest socioeconomic group were 'trying to lose weight' and fewer were 'not bothered about their weight' than people from the ...Personality influences psychological adjustment and recovery from stroke
...nt before a stroke can often successfully dedicate themselves to a rigorous post-stroke rehabilitation routine and get themselves back to a higher level of recovery, she says. Much of stroke care has focused on medically stab...... differentially expressed not only in glial tumors themselves but also in adjacent tissues that appear normal when viewed microscopically. When surgeons remove a malignant tumor, the adjacent tissue looks normal at the pathological level but it is the source from which a recurrence develops. Now, with the gene...