Archive for April 2016

ScienceShot: Diarrhea Deaths Decoded

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ScienceShot: Diarrhea Deaths Decoded - Bryon Skinner / CDC Each year, 800,000 children under 5 living in the developing world die from a disease that is usually considered a mere annoyance in the West diarrhea. But until now, there has been very little reliable...

Finding Less Risky Ways to Make Medical Isotopes

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Finding Less Risky Ways to Make Medical Isotopes - Nuclear medicine coverage for countries determined to acquire nuclear weapons? For years, this issue has clouded efforts to increase the production of medical radioisotopes, many of which are made in nuclear reactors that run on highly enriched uranium...

Common Herbal Supplement Linked to Cancer

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Common Herbal Supplement Linked to Cancer - Vicious vine. leafy, flowering vines called Aristolochia are used in a supplement herbal that can cause cancer. Carsten Niehaus / Creative Commons SHANGHAI, CHINA -Many people are turning to herbal supplements...

Bats May Be Carrying the Next SARS Pandemic

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Bats May Be Carrying the Next SARS Pandemic - horseshoe Unlucky. bats in Chinese horseshoe like this carry a virus similar to SARS can infect human cells. Libiao Zhang / Guangdong Entomological Institute / South China Institute of Endangered Animals In November...

Long-Lasting Drug Could Thwart HIV

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Long-Lasting Drug Could Thwart HIV - Breaking the cycle. A GSK744 injection can cause infection for months by inhibiting the integration of HIV. G.Grullón / Science Antiretroviral drugs can protect people against infection with HIV. But so-called pre-exposure...

The 'Other' Breast Cancer Genes

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The 'Other' Breast Cancer Genes - Login to view the full text Username Enter your username Sciencemag. org. Password Enter the password that accompanies your username. you have forgotten your username or password? Log Join / Subscribe...

Implant Injects DNA Into Ear, Improves Hearing

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Implant Injects DNA Into Ear, Improves Hearing - sounds good. New auditory neurons increased in Guinea pig deaf since DNA for a growth factor ( above ), but not in the untreated ears of the same animal. Translational Neuroscience Facility UNSW Many people...

NIH Gears Up for a Closer Look at the Human Placenta

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NIH Gears Up for a Closer Look at the Human Placenta - Placenta you and every person ever born for 9 months supported, for your lungs and kidneys and hormones while pumping you developed in the womb. Problems with this fabric disk-shaped mass can contribute to everything from premature births to diseases...

Can ecstasy treat the agony of PTSD?

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The limits of success

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The limits of success - the increased prevalence in men in Australia who have sex with men raises questions about treatment as prevention. special section on HIV Only 1253 people were diagnosed with HIV in Australia in 2012, shows nearly 3 decades of prevention...

Q&A: Is politics influencing marijuana research?

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Q&A: Is politics influencing marijuana research? - This week, a team from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that heavy marijuana use can damage the pleasure center of the brain ?. Meanwhile, UK researchers say they understand why pot makes you paranoid. But to focus research...

Slideshow: World's worst parasitic worms

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Slideshow: World's worst parasitic worms - hookworms, roundworms, and other parasitic worms known as helminths species thrived in mammals for millions of years. Despite modern advances in sanitation, helminth infections still have a devastating impact on human health and welfare, particularly in developing...

Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola

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Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola - Alessandro Vespignani hopes his latest book will prove to be false. In July, the physicist at Northeastern University in Boston began modeling how the deadly Ebola virus can spread in West Africa. Extrapolating current trends, the number...

Ebola vaccines racing forward at record pace

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Ebola vaccine: Little and late

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How did the 'Berlin patient' rid himself of HIV?

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How did the 'Berlin patient' rid himself of HIV? - Researchers are closer to unraveling the mystery of Timothy Ray Brown, the only human cured of HIV, the virus defeated , according to a new study. Although the work does not provide a definitive answer, it excludes a possible explanation. Brown...

Imagining Ebola's next move

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Imagining Ebola's next move - a son and his sick father in Monrovia PHOTO :. IMAGES JOHN MOORE / GETTY When a traveler Liberia came down with Ebola in Dallas on 24 September, it was a warning to the world: As the number cases in West Africa continues...
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