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...ished earlier this year, the WISE researchers shed light on a female-specific vascular disorder that often causes women to suffer from heart-related chest pain even though their arteries are not blocked by plaque deposits. Two areas of dysfunction one in the cells lining coronary arteries and another in t...Analysis of Spanish flu cases in 1918-1920 suggests transfusions might help in bird flu pandemic
...ting victims of a bird flu pandemic, especially in light of the problems with existing vaccines and treatments, say authors of the Spanish flu study. They say that a single recovering bird-flu patient could donate "a weekly volume of plasma sufficient to treat multiple patients with H5N1 influenza." Th...Consumer hygiene fears keep food industry on its toes
...isk management practices and to throw some further light onto the debate about so-called 'smart' regulation within and beyond the state. The findings also show that: State regulation continues to be a key influence on business risk management, but the influence of non-state groups, including consumers a...More than just pretty faces for this brain region, says Stanford researcher
...n a portion of the brain called the fusiform gyrus light up in response to a face, leading researchers to refer to this region as the "fusiform face area." But a study to be published in the September issue of Nature Neuroscience reports that this area also shows a localized - albeit less extensive - respo...Daytime light exposure dynamically enhances brain responses
Exposure to light is known to enhance both alertness and performance... effects, especially those associated with daytime light exposure. Now, by exposing subjects to light and imaging their brains while they subsequently perfor...All forms of tobacco exposure are bad for the heart
... decreased with time after stopping smoking; among light smokers ( cigarettes a day) smokers still had an excess risk of around 22%, 20 years after quitting. The team also found that exposure to second hand smoke increased the risk of heart attack in both former and non-smokers. The findings suggest that ...SWAN system to help blind and firefighters navigate environment
... street level details not included in GPS, such as light posts and benches. The challenge is integrating al... digital compass, a head tracker, four cameras and light sensor, and special headphones called bone phones. The researchers selected bone phones because they...Link between autism and abnormal blood-vessel function and oxidative stress
... amount of blood reaching the brain. Shedding more light on the relationship of oxidative stress and blood-vessel health to the pathology of autism could lead to improvements in therapy."...Polio outbreak from oral vaccine identified -- and controlled -- in China
...n policies will have to be carefully considered in light of both medical and financial concerns....U of M professor explores spooning, snoring and sheet stealing
...le when people share a bed -- deep sleepers versus light sleepers, night-owls versus early birds and people who need the covers tucked in versus people who need them untucked. Those differences can be issues for a couple and how the differences are addressed can affect both partner's sleep. And, one partne...Pigments in corn, squash and other vegetables may help protect against age-related vision loss
...ounds may reduce the risk of AMD by absorbing blue light that could damage the macula, by preventing free radicals from damaging eye cells and by strengthening eye cell membranes. Suzen M. Moeller, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, and colleagues with the Carotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Stu...Rush researchers explore nanotechnology as diagnostic and treatment tool
...rough the smallest capillaries. These tiny bubbles light up on ultrasound and may be able to show the earliest vascular changes associated with ovarian malignancy. If this is successful, further research will be conducted to study targeted imaging as well as targeted therapy. Ovarian cancer is the fifth...Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State get grant to study link between antidepressants and suicidality in teens
...rant to analyze other data sources that might shed light on what relationship, if any, antidepressant use has with suicidal behavior. For example, the FDA did not take into account recent results from large observational studies that, using health administrative data, have been unable to find an increased ...Cancer in the workforce: mapping the Australian experience
..." says Ms Lovejoy who in 2004 spent five months on light duties following surgery and chemotherapy to treat ovarian cancer. "Do they 'soldier on' at work, reduce their hours, switch jobs or leave work altogether? These are questions we know little about. In my case I know that I'd never thought about wha...Cincinnati surgeon's pediatric laparoscopic liver surgery a world first
...through small, tube-like ports using a fiber-optic light source, camera and specialized instruments. Known as laparoscopic liver resection, this procedure requires incisions so small (about three-inches) that they leave only minimal scarring. Two months post-surgery, the patient is doing well and is exp...The influence of money on medical science
... issue of the influence of money in science and in light of recent incidents involving authors failure to disclose all of their potential conflicts of interest to JAMA, Dr. DeAngelis has written an editorial on the subject which will be posted online at www.JAMA.com Monday, August 7, 2006. " we have m...Smokers with chronic pain smoke more, but show desire to quit
...ograms within pain clinics would be worthwhile, in light of this research." Study co-author Kenneth Kirsh, a UK College of Pharmacy assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, said that "people with pain conditions may have initially started smoking as an attempt to treat the...Ninety-eight percent of Gaza's children experience or witness war trauma -- Queen's study
... of Middle East violence, but are being ignored in light of other crises." The Psychological Effects of War on Palestinian Children is Pringle's Master's thesis and the only study of its kind, analyzing data from The Gaza Child Health Survey to describe relationships between war trauma and psychological...Paying physicians to recruit patients into trials: The ethical concerns
A policy paper in PLoS Medicine shines a light on the legal and ethical issues surrounding so-called "finder's fees"--payments to health professionals for successfully recruiting patients into clinical trials. Trudo Lemmens and Paul Miller, from the University of Toronto, say that the increasing...... a handful of neurons tuned to respond to edges of light at specific orientations, the ability to detect these orientations improves with experience. The more the animal is exposed to shapes, objects and light, the better it can perceive them. Plasticity is the amazing ability of a neuron or a synapse ...