Faster and better emergency response through satellite telecoms
... brings it to remote areas, even if they are in an extreme state of disorder. It helps with logistical support and reduces the need to carry large amounts of heavy equipment to trouble spots. A pan-European solution HEWS works by setting up a communication network via satellite to survey and monitor ...Mayo Clinic research in cardiovascular disease presented at Experimental Biology 2007
...repairing the endothelium even under conditions of extreme ischemia (inadequate supply of oxygen to an organ). But when EPCs are in insufficient supply, they are unable to protect the body from heart disease or stroke. The antioxidant mechanism Dr. Katusic and colleagues identified includes enzymes that pr...$7.5 million NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
...cial relationships, and it is often accompanied by extreme behavioral challenges. Autism affects about two million Americans. Autism Spectrum Disorders are diagnosed in one in 150 children in the United States and affects four times as many boys as girls. Researchers do not know how many subtypes of autism e...Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in support of CryoSat-2
...rom Germany, Norway and the UK is unfolding in the extreme northern archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. On Thursday12 April, a group of eight scientists were transported by helicopter to the remote Austfonna ice cap. As part of the CryoVex 2007 campaign, they will spend one month making measurements of snow and...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...fter 1900," Marmor said, "these effects were quite extreme and many pictures seem mere shadows of his customary style." Monet wrote of his growing frustration with his deteriorating vision, describing how he was forced to memorize where the colors were placed on his palette. In 1914 he wrote in his corresp...Latest IPCC report highlights need for integrated climate/human behavior models
...ooling, better forecasting and warning systems for extreme events, and increased water usage. Larger-scale is...s to lessen the health risks. Recent evidence from extreme heat waves, cyclones and droughts has shown how widely the health impacts vary between old and young...Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations
...the lungs, where it prompts coughing, wheezing and extreme difficulty in breathing, a clinical syndrome known as bronchiolitis. In these cases, the childs survival may require immediate medical attention. For the past four decades, medical science thought it knew how this dangerous condition arose from suc...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...ult, peak mortality rates were higher. In the most extreme disparity, the peak mortality rate in St. Louis was only one-eighth that of Philadelphia, the worst-hit city in the survey. In contrast to St. Louis, Philadelphia imposed bans on public gatherings more than two weeks after the first infections were r...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...ow underway and realising excellent results in the extreme north of Europe in support of ESA's Sentinel-1 mission - which amongst other application areas will contribute to ice monitoring. Carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the images that Sentinel-1 will provide are particularly well suited for ap...Metacognition: Faced with a test, rats can check their knowledge first
..."a relatively easy choice if the noise fell to one extreme or another (for example, 8 seconds), but a difficult choice if the noise happened to be of more intermediate length (for example, 4.4 seconds). But prior to the time-discrimination test, rats were given a choice of whether to take the test at all by ...Severe PTSD damages children's brains, Stanford/Packard study shows
...ed in children. The researchers focused on kids in extreme situations to better understand how stress affects...ent than others, and what the long-term effects of extreme stress are," said Carrion, who is the first author of the research, to be published in the March iss...New insights into autoimmunity and depression
...oimmune disease marked by joint pain, skin rashes, extreme fatigue, and depression, among other symptoms. Some studies have described a possible link between SLEs most severe psychiatric manifestation, psychosis, and a protein autoantibody associated with the central nervous system, anti-ribosomal P. To ...Americans believe global warming is real, want action, but not as a priority
...mpacts of climate change on either human health or extreme weather events. Yet these are, arguably, among the...scenarios. "These visions are well beyond the most extreme scientific scenarios," Leiserowitz said. Alarmists, he found, are slightly more likely to be liberal...HIV dementia alarmingly high in Africa
...ities that interfere with normal daily life and in extreme cases lead to total disability and a bedridden state. Unlike Alzheimers- and stroke-induced dementia, HIV dementia is treatable and potentially reversible with the same antiretroviral medication that is used to treat the infection. Treatment can even...UIC receives grant to find new drugs for bipolar disorder
...rom bipolar disorder, a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings. Also called manic-depression, it may be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. A person who has bipolar disorder at times feels happy, full of energy and able to do anything. In this manic phase the person may not want to rest. A...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...ortionate response in defined situations given the extreme risk posed." Writing in the peer-reviewed online journal PLoS Medicine, co-authors Ross Upshur, MD, Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and South Africa-based HIV-AIDS experts Jerome Amir Singh and Nesri Padayatchi, MD,...Olive oil emulsion helps with problem heart arteries
...ity is one such obstacle. It occurs when there are extreme bends in the vessels leading to or from the heart artery which taxes the limited flexibility of stainless steel stents. Dr. Savage likens attempting to place a stent through a tortuous vessel to "trying to move a couch around a narrow stairwell." Oth...Researchers show surprising interaction between genes, gender and hypertension
... diastolic (lower number) measurements fell at the extreme highest and lowest percentiles of distribution. The study yielded 48 different genetic variations, or polymorphisms, on 35 different genes that encode proteins involved in blood pressure regulation. Thirty-three of the genes were on autosomes (ch...Height loss in older men associated with increased risk of heart disease, death
...o 4 centimeters and was not solely attributable to extreme height loss." There could also be an underlying mechanism that contributes to both bone loss, which leads to height loss, and coronary heart and other diseases....Novel brain areas associated with the recognition of gender, ethnicity and the identity of faces
...Minna Ng, a graduate student at UCSD. "In the most extreme cases it's a clinical condition called prosopagnosia. Until now, most people assumed that difficulties with face recognition were due to cortical deficits near the fusiform gyrus. These data suggest that other brain regions may be involved. The fact ...