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for the Week of January 30 to February 6, 2011
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Posted 2011-02-05:
- How the body’s frontline defense mechanism determines if a substance is a microbe
- A loose grip provides better chemotherapy
- Benefits of outdoor exercise confirmed
- HPV vaccine works for boys: Study shows first clear benefits
- Blood-clotting protein linked to cancer and septicemia
- Gas stations pollute their immediate surroundings, Spanish study finds
- Children's BMI found to rise the longer their mothers work
Posted 2011-02-05:
- New induced stem cells may unmask cancer at earliest stage
- Mechanism involved in breast cancer's spread to bone discovered
- Cross-species strategy might be a powerful tool for studying human disease
- Working more than 20 hours a week in high school found harmful
- Boosting body's immune response may hold key to HIV cure
- For stem cells, a way to assure quality
- Early childhood education program yields high economic returns
- Want more efficient muscles? Eat your spinach
- Scientists unlock one mystery of tissue regeneration
- Quality and quantity of maternal milk impacts stress response of adult offspring
- Obesity has doubled since 1980, major global analysis of risk factors reveals
- Deadly tool discovered in Salmonella's bag of tricks
- Powerful new methodology for stabilizing proteins developed
- Children more likely to transmit flu to those of same sex, UK study finds
- Destined for disease: Breast cancer mutation regulates cell fate
- The 'death switch' in sepsis also promotes survival
- Childhood obesity linked to health habits, not heredity, study finds
- A stem cell origin of skin cancer and the genetic roots of malignancy unmasked
- New undertsanding of gut hormones and gut function sheds light on obesity
Posted 2011-02-04:
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Scientists closer to finding treatment for life-threatening hereditary disease
- Communication pathways within proteins may yield new drug targets to stop superbugs
- Deaths reduced with cardiac resynchronization therapy
- Energy-efficient intelligent house can monitor health, prototype shows
- Why do our emotions get in the way of rational decisions about safety products?
- Assisted reproductive technologies: Uterine health more important than egg quality, study shows
- Sideline test accurately detects athletes' concussions in minutes, study shows
- Scientists climb Mt. Everest to explain how hearts adapt and recover from low oxygen
- Poor work ability may predict faster deterioration of health
- New clue to lupus: Failed autoimmune suppression mechanism
- Future surgeons may use robotic nurse, 'gesture recognition'
- Simple interventions reduce newborn deaths in Africa
- Coffee, energy drinkers beware: Many mega-sized drinks loaded with sugar, nutrition expert says
- Learning causes structural changes in affected neurons
- Lampreys give clues to evolution of immune system
- Early infusion of donor T cells prevents graft versus host disease in blood cancer patients, study suggests
- Drug-abusers have difficulty to recognize negative emotions as wrath, fear and sadness, study finds
- Molecular predictor of metastatic prostate cancer found
- Cell reprogramming leaves a 'footprint' behind
- Why folic acid may prevent a first heart attack, but not a second
- Children's genes influence how well they take advantage of education, twin study shows
- Electric thinking cap? Flash of fresh insight by electrical brain stimulation
- Potential vaccine to prevent gastritis, ulcer disease, gastric cancer
- Roasting coffee beans a dark brown produces valued antioxidants, scientists find
- First new C. difficile drug in a generation superior to existing treatments
- Taking unpleasant surprises out of cosmetic surgery
- Giant virus, tiny protein crystals show X-ray laser's power and potential
- Migraine surgery offers good long-term outcomes, study finds
- Many rheumatoid arthritis patients not getting recommended drugs, researchers find
- Older adults often excluded from clinical trials
- Metabolic syndrome linked to memory loss in older people
- Genetic cause of new vascular disease identified
- How cancer gene MMSET functions
- Having a strong community protects adolescents from risky health behaviors
- Current use of biodiesel no more harmful than regular diesel, Norwegian study finds
Posted 2011-02-03:
- Human genome's breaking points: Genetic sequence of large-scale differences between human genomes
- MicroRNA cocktail helps turn skin cells into stem cells
- One donor cornea, two patients helped: New surgical approach may help meet demand for donor corneas
- When a blockbuster becomes lackluster: Not all movie-watching experiences are created equal
- Lower back disease may be in your genes: New study indicates predisposition to lumbar disc disease could be inherited
- In tiny fruit flies, researchers identify metabolic 'switch' that links normal growth to cancer
- Transplanted human placenta-derived stem cells show therapeutic potential in stroke models
- New nanoparticles make blood clots visible
- New tumor-tracking technique for radiotherapy spares healthy tissue, could improve cancer treatment
- Ritalin may ease early iron deficiency damage
- Engineered cells could usher in programmable cell therapies
- Safer way to make induced pluripotent stem cells developed
- Good cop beats bad cop, research shows; Study explores why dialogue yields better results than coercion
- Targeted particle fools brain's guardian to reach tumors
- Key to understanding cause of lupus
- Video games are good for girls, if parents play along
- Level of tumor protein indicates chances cancer will spread
- Race gap narrows for some cancers in African-Americans; continues to increase for others
- Preschool beneficial, but should offer more, study finds
- Natural molecule indirectly prevents stable clot formation
- High levels of circulating DNA may signal faster progression of lung cancer
- Too many pitches strike out youth athletes early, new 10 year study suggests
- Do chimpanzees mourn their dead infants?
- Yeast used to detect proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases
- Computer-assisted diagnosis tools to aid pathologists
- African-Americans have better stroke survival rates
- Teens with HIV at high risk for pregnancy, complications, research finds
- Multiple genome sequencing yields detailed map of structural variants behind our genetic differences
- Researchers develop new framework for analyzing genetic variants
- New U.S. state scorecard on children's health care finds wide geographic disparities
Posted 2011-02-02:
- Sleep selectively stores useful memories: Brain evaluates information based on future expectations, study suggests
- New study alters long-held beliefs about shingles
- Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children and insecticide-treated bednets reduce prevalence of infection by up to 85 percent
- Opiate abuse: Protracted abstinence revisited
- Bacteria in the gut may influence brain development
- Early tests find nanoshell therapy effective against brain cancer
- Microbubble ultrasound and breast biopsies
- Bilinguals find it easier to learn a third language
- Inhalable measles vaccine tested
- PET scans may allow early prediction of response to targeted therapy of thyroid cancer
- Gestures provide a helping hand in problem solving
- Researchers unlock the potential for exploring kidney regeneration
- Brain can learn to overcome sleep apnea, study suggests
- Physical activity linked to political participation
- New probiotic combats inflammatory bowel disease
- Dogs can accurately sniff out early stage bowel cancer
- High-spending hospitals may save more lives
- Understanding the autistic mind: Evidence that autistic patients have trouble understanding other people's intentions
- Smart lasers could make cancer biopsies painless, help speed new drugs to market
- Altered cell metabolism has role in brain tumor development
- Explosive- and drug-sniffing dog performance is affected by their handlers' beliefs
- Specific populations of gut bacteria linked to fatty liver
- Signaling pathway crucial to acute lung injury discovered
- Nanotechnology: Detecting lethal diseases with rust and sand
- Moderate aerobic exercise in older adults shown to improve memory
- When two rights make a wrong: Combating childhood heart disease
- Free radicals in cornea may contribute to Fuchs dystrophy, most common cause of corneal transplants
- Safety checklist use yields 10 percent drop in hospital deaths
- Evidence mounting on the harms of alcohol industry sponsorship of sport, Australian study finds
- More doctors must join nurses, administrators in leading efforts to improve patient safety, outcomes, experts argue
- Nonprofit hospices disproportionately care for costly patients, researchers conclude
- Arranged marriages and distrust: Influence of parental choice on mate guarding
- Go green to give a boost to employee morale
- Lung societies unveil new international classification of lung adenocarcinoma
Posted 2011-02-01:
- Novel immune system-based gene therapy induces strong responses in metastatic melanoma, sarcoma
- Little decline in hepatitis C infections among injection drug users, study finds
- Megalomaniac CEOs: Good or bad for company performance?
- Deficiency of dietary omega-3 may explain depressive behaviors
- Scientists grow arteries with high level of elastic protein: Big step for living vascular grafts
- Seeing kidney injury, as it happens: Animal-model study offers glimpse at real-time changes in kidney
- Children's genetic potentials are subdued by poverty: Effects show by age 2
- Hormone therapy begun at menopause may pose risk for breast cancer
- Plankton inspires creation of stealth armor for slow-release microscopic drug vehicles
- Young rats given polyphenols show less endothelial function deterioration with aging
- Super Bowl losses can increase cardiac death, study finds
- Stimulating the brain's immune response may provide treatment for Alzheimer's disease
- What are the right food supplements during pregnancy? Study shows risky knowledge gaps
- Shape-shifting sugars pinned down
- Casualties of war: Wounded veterans more likely to die of coronary heart disease
- Antibiotic offers potential for anti-cancer activity
- Nerve cell molecule has antidepressant effect; animal study may lead to more effective treatments for depression
- Sprouts? Supplements? Team them up to boost broccoli's cancer-fighting power
- Smoking habits are transmitted from mother to daughter and father to son, study suggests
- Adult skin cells converted directly to beating heart cells
- Key mechanism governing nicotine addiction discovered
- Stem cell marker regulates synapse formation
- Pre-surgical stress management boosts immune function, lowers mood disturbance in prostate cancer patients
- Genetic clues to compulsive, self-injurious behavior in rare childhood disorder
- Obese women less likely to complete mammograms and more likely to report pain with the procedure, study finds
- Recalled implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads fail in women, youths most often
- MRI: An accurate method to evaluate iron overload
- A diagnostic marker in hepatocellular carcinoma
- Hepatic vein thrombosis following liver resection
- Energy drink logo enough to shape consumer performance, study finds
- Food industry partnerships may carry risks, experts argue
- Navigating the spheres of assisted death
Posted 2011-01-31:
- Scientists unlock the 'gates' on sudden cardiac death
- Powerful 3-D X-rays for kids in braces should be the exception, not the rule
- New era of advances in brain research: As recording technology rapidly improves, neurons give up their secrets cell by cell
- Powerful new painkiller with no apparent side effects or addictive qualities, may be ready in a year
- Regenerative medicine advance: New 'cocktails' support long-term maintenance of human embryonic stem cells
- Celiac disease and Crohn's disease share part of their genetic background
- Retired NFL players misuse painkillers more than general population, study finds
Posted 2011-01-30:
- Learn more quickly by transcranial magnetic brain stimulation, study in rats suggests
- Mini-strokes leave 'hidden' brain damage
- Growth spurt? 'Catch-up' growth signals revealed
- Presence of peers heightens teens' sensitivity to rewards of a risk
- DNA caught rock 'n rollin': On rare occasions DNA dances itself into a different shape
- Premature infants' lungs may improve with better nutrition
- Voice-saver: Light therapy for early-stage laryngeal cancer
- Helping others helps alcoholics stay on the road to recovery
Posted 2011-01-29:
- Infants ascribe social dominance to larger individuals
- Novel surgery removes rare tumor, rebuilds trachea
- Smoking widespread among youth with diabetes, raising heart disease risk
- The Oscar curse? Oscar win for best actress increases the risk of divorce, study suggests
- Exposure to worm infection in the womb may protect against eczema, study suggests
- Understanding the human neurosystem by researching locust brains
- New therapies and gene target advance the treatment and understanding of hard-to-treat leukemias
- Perception of time spent with fathers can lead to bullying
- Cancer drug aids regeneration of spinal cord after injuries
- Age of onset of puberty predicts adult osteoporosis risk: Later puberty results in lower bone mass
- On the hunt for universal intelligence
- Cold cases gone hot: Researchers solve decades-old medical mysteries using genetics
- Unlocking the secrets of DNA
- How fusion protein triggers cancer
- Yearly mammograms from age 40 save 71 percent more lives, study shows
- High school biology teachers in U.S. reluctant to endorse evolution in class, study finds
- Stem cells show promise in repairing a child's heart
- Scientists link protein to the insulation of the nervous system's wiring
- New training instrument allows surgeon to feel grasp force in keyhole surgery
- Marriage is good for physical and mental health, study finds
- How bacteria keep ahead of vaccines and antibiotics
- Biomarkers of poor outcomes in preemies identified
- Membrane molecule keeps nerve impulses hopping
- New test better predicts breast cancer outcomes
- Weighing the costs of disaster
- Protein related to aging holds breast cancer clues
- Newborn screening increases survival outcome for patients with severe combined immunodeficiency
- New computer tool for elderly and disabled
- Mother's happier when babies are six months old than when three years old, Norwegian study suggests
Posted 2011-01-28:
- Brain 'GPS' illuminated in migratory monarch butterflies
- Discovery could lead to new therapies for asthma, COPD
- Origins of the pandemic: Lessons of H1N1
- Women in Congress outperform men on some measures, study finds
- Bacteria possible cause of preterm births
- NSAID receptor responsible for olive oil's 'cough' and more
- Early antibiotic use can lead to increased risk of childhood asthma, study suggests
- Secondhand smoke laws may reduce childhood ear infections, study suggests
- Potential 'cure' for type 1 diabetes?
- HIV causes rapid aging in key infection-fighting cells, study suggests
- New lab-on-chip advance uses low-cost, disposable paper strips
- Getting more anti-cancer medicine into the blood
- Eight percent of fans legally drunk after attending professional sports games, study finds
- Ancient body clock discovered that helps keep all living things on time
- Household bugs: A risk to human health?
- Key enzyme that affects radiation response identified
- Gender and hygiene: Could cleanliness be hurting girls?
- Natural growth factor enhances memory, prevents forgetting in rats
- Traffic noise increases the risk of having a stroke, study suggests
- Nervous system as a 3-D map: First complete map of special connections of nerve cells in zebrafish
- 3-D MRI helps kids with ACL tears: Surgery without harming the growth plate
- 'Difficult' patients more likely to experience worse symptoms
- Mediator of blood pressure regulation in the liver identified; Pressor reflex triggered simply by drinking water
- DMP1 protein inhibits angiogenesis, could lead to new treatments against cancer and other diseases
- Highly interactive training helps workers in dangerous jobs avoid deadly mistakes
- How pathogenic bacteria hide inside host cells
- Molecular network influences development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Pay-for-performance does not improve patient health, finds UK hypertension study
- Organic food in pregnancy
Posted 2011-01-27:
- Non-alcoholic energy drinks may pose 'high' health risks, experts argue
- Neuroscientists learn how channels fine-tune neuronal excitability
- Eyewitnesses are not as reliable as one might believe
- New way to prevent infections in dialysis patients
- Food-borne bacteria causes potentially fatal heart infection
- Shockable cardiac arrests are more common in public than home, study finds
- Eating poorly can make you blue: Trans-fats increase risk of depression, while olive oil helps avoid risk
- New anti-HIV gene therapy makes T-cells resistant to HIV infection
- Discovery of a biochemical basis for broccoli's cancer-fighting ability
- Infiltrating cancer's recruitment center: How beneficial cells are subverted to support cancer growth
- Sharing child caregiving may increase parental conflict, study finds
- Growth-factor-containing nanoparticles accelerate healing of chronic wounds
- Molecular mechanism links stress with predisposition for depression
- Centuries of sailors weren't wrong: Looking at the horizon stabilizes posture
- Hot flushes are linked with a significant reduction in breast cancer risk, study finds
- Use of antidepressant associated with reduction in menopausal hot flashes
- Soldiers’ brains adapt to perceived threat during mission
- New method attacks bacterial infections on contact lenses
- Imaging procedure can identify biomarker associated with Alzheimer's disease
- Mercury in Bay Area fish a legacy of California mining
- Preschool kids know what they like: Salt, sugar and fat
- New TB vaccine provides stronger, longer-lasting protection
- Chemists document workings of key staph enzyme -- and how to block it
- Genetic diversity found in leukemic propagating cells
- Parental divorce linked to suicidal thoughts
- Biologists' favorite worm gets viruses: Finding means C. elegans may aid studies of human infections
- Unfolding pathogenesis in Parkinson’s: Breakthrough suggests damaged proteins travel between cells
- HIV-positive head and neck cancer patients benefit from radiation therapy, study finds
- Migraines and headaches present no risk to cognitive function, study finds
- Racial stereotyping found in US death certificates, sociologists say
- If you knew Susie: The sequence of the orangutan genome
- First pediatric surgical quality program shows potential to measure children's outcomes
- Support not punishment is the key to tackling substance abuse and addiction among nurses, study suggests
Posted 2011-01-26:
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