Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
...um. To study their use as cell-based sensors for extreme environments, samples of the yeast- and bacteria-c...d to determine their longevity when exposed to the extreme stresses of the radiation and vacuum of outer space. Of the NASA mission, Brinker says, "Ordinaril...Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience
...o harm to study participants, though some admitted extreme anxiety or other unpleasant effects in the hours following the psilocybin capsule. The drug has not been observed to be addictive or physically toxic in animal studies or human populations. "In this regard," says Griffiths, a psychopharmacologist, "i...Disfiguring facial infection in young children can be prevented
..., or immunodeficiency. It is a disease promoted by extreme poverty and is common in environments with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation. Noma becomes established very rapidly leaving patients little time to seek medical attention, so prevention is key. In their Seminar Cyril Enwonwu (University of...Higher levels of obesity associated with greater health risks
...ned: obesity 1 (30-34.9); obesity 2 (35-39.9); and extreme obesity (40 and greater). (A 5'4" person would hav... black women reported measurements consistent with extreme obesity. Estimates of obesity-related risks in women have generally been based on weight data that ...Higher death rates associated with increasing degrees of obesity, PITT researchers report
...1 (BMI 30.0 34.9), obesity 2 (BMI 35.0 C 39.9) and extreme obesity (BMI 40). The study showed that white w...icine, suggest that the particularly rapid rise in extreme obesity in the U.S. may exacerbate the health effects and health-related expenditures of the ongoing...Physiological markers for cutting, other self-harming behaviors by teenage girls found
...cessively strong emotional reactions and they have extreme difficulty in controlling those emotions," said Beauchaine. "Their self-harming behavior serves to distract them from these emotions." Borderline Personality Disorder is far more serious than self-harming behavior and people with the condition have ...Natural pine bark extract relieves muscle cramp and pain in athletes and diabetics
...mon problem for people of all ages, ranging to the extreme fit and healthy to people who suffer from health problems. Previously, magnesium was hailed as the natural approach for relieving muscle cramps, however studies continue to show magnesium to be inefficient for reducing muscle cramps. "Pycnogenol impr...Use of anti-depressant does not decrease risk of relapse for patients with anorexia nervosa
...r primarily affecting young women and marked by an extreme fear of becoming overweight that leads to excessive dieting to the point of serious ill-health and sometimes death. It is a serious psychiatric illness with a lifetime death rate arguably as high as that associated with any psychiatric illness, accor...The brain, hormones and behavior focus of briefings at international meeting June 19-22
...dition affecting mostly women and characterized by extreme fatigue and widespread muscle pain, a German study suggests "prenatal programming" likely plays a role. According to University of Toronto animal studies, a synthetic hormone commonly given to pregnant women at risk for delivering early not only can ...The 'roulette wheel': A new tool to help patients make difficult treatment decisions
...nd this is exacerbated when we try to deal in more extreme probabilities, such as 3 in 10,000." The researchers believe that the roulette wheel could be an important advance in shared decision making because patients are offered visual--rather than numerical--displays of the probability of benefits and harms...Gut microbes' partnership helps body extract energy from food, store it as fat
... became famous because of their ability to live in extreme environments where nothing else could survive, such as hot springs. Scientists first isolated archaea from the human intestine in 1982, and have recently recognized M. smithii as the most common archaeon in human intestines. In addition to its preva...Study elicits 'child's eye' view of methamphetamine abuse and its effects
...ofound effects on the user, Haight said, including extreme irritability, paranoia and heightened sexual arousal. Users can go on days-long highs, followed by days of sleep. "These are adults behaving in very unpredictable, dangerous ways, and the child is there too," she said. In most of these families, pare...Type of stress, not duration, key to heart enlargement
...our experiments because they have sudden bursts of extreme overload," he said. "We would also predict that patients suffering from sleep apnea, who often wake up suddenly in a panic state, would also have hearts like our abnormal mice. It appears that like many other things in life, moderation is the best po...New mechanism explains glucose effect on wakefulness
...l mechanism is involved in sensing both subtle and extreme changes in glucose," they wrote. What's more, their finding that subtle changes in glucose levels affect firing of orexin "raises the possibility that, besides being important for adaptive responses to starvation, modulation of orexin cells by glucos...Smoking, diabetes predict different forms of peripheral artery disease
...ool to the touch, heal slowly when injured, and in extreme cases require amputation. Researchers identified several risk factors that influence the evolution of LV-PAD. Smoking appeared to be the most powerful predictor that PAD would get worse. "Smoking cessation is the most efficient way to slow the prog...First trial on life-threatening condition finds two surgical approaches have same results
...emature infants in the United States each year. In extreme cases, NEC leads to perforation of the intestine, a condition that can be fatal if not treated with emergency surgery. The first, more aggressive surgical procedure laparotomy and bowel resection involves a large abdominal incision and removal of a......s were far less likely than males to drink at such extreme levels. Binge drinking consuming large amounts of alcohol in a relatively short period of time is generally defined as four+ drinks per occasion for females and five+ drinks for males. Although using this definition or threshold has provided inv...Treatment for anorexia nervosa appears to have improved outcome
...may spill over into 'dietary chaos' including the extreme bingeing-vomiting pattern of bulimia nervosa. In anorexia nervosa, however, there is sustained and severe calorie restriction. Prof. Crisp suggests that this single-minded rejection of food brings relief, in the absence of other psychological defence...New techniques ease colon cancer procedures for patients
..., and for satisfaction, 0 means no satisfaction or extreme dissatisfaction and 100 means extremely satisfied....Call for countries tackling HIV epidemics to learn from one another on 25th anniversary
...global climate change and the persistence of mass, extreme poverty'. He adds: 'In the final analysis, countering the AIDS pandemic is a political matter. We have now reached a point in the global response where we can get ahead of the epidemic. To succeed in this critical stretch, we must intensify our effor...