Archive for July 2019

The case of Telltale Fingertips

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The case of Telltale Fingertips - hand. clubbed fingers can provide clues to other disorders. Ann McGrath club-shaped fingers may be a warning sign for serious heart and lung disease, but the cause of the disease remained a mystery for more than 2400 years....

Pathogens and prayer

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Pathogens and prayer - adaptive behavior? The variety of religious practice - including this shaman ritual in Ecuador - can be linked to infectious diseases Reuters The same diseases that afflict . Humanity can also lead one of the fundamental elements of...

Pig offers hope for cystic fibrosis

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Pig offers hope for cystic fibrosis - choice of the litter. Some of these piglets are born with CF-like disease. C. Rogers et al., Science The gene responsible for cystic fibrosis (CF) was discovered there near 20 years, but since then progress to conquer...

FDA Mooooves Away From Ban on antibiotics of cattle

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FDA Mooooves Away From Ban on antibiotics of cattle - The Wall Street Journal reports that the Food and Drug Administration of the United States has quietly dropped plans to end the use of certain long-term antibiotics in animals that end up on our plates. Many public health officials have long...

Obama Targets FDA

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Obama Targets FDA - It is expected that the Obama administration will appoint one of several major critics of the US Food and Drug Administration to run the beleaguered agency. Yesterday the President pointed out in a pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer on NBC that he is willing to give wide...

Journal Latest to Confront Conflict of interests

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Journal Latest to Confront Conflict of interests - newspaper publishers are always ready to ask authors to disclose individual contributions to documents and potential conflicts of interest. Today, the editors of PLoS Medicin ea published an editorial calling for publishers to do the same thing...

Stem Cell Decision Obama Gets Standing Ovation From scientific

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Stem Cell Decision Obama Gets Standing Ovation From scientific - WASHINGTON, DC In the same room where chandeliers White House, it 2 years ago, George Bush reaffirmed federal restrictions on research on embryonic stem cells, President Barack Obama announced this morning that "we will lift the ban...

Double amputee light on the flexibility of the brain

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Double amputee light on the flexibility of the brain - Handy. years after a transplant of both hands, the patient can perform complex tasks including repairing a wire. PNAS How the brain to cope when, several years after both hands amputated, a person suddenly...

Big NCI plans for his great stimulation

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Big NCI plans for his great stimulation - with the National Institutes of Health receiving 10.4 billion dollars thanks to the exceptional economic stimulus plan, all eyes are on the agency to see how the money will transform biomedical research in the next 2 years (or at least, scientists give the...

Retrospective: What happened with the swine flu in 1976

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Retrospective: What happened with the swine flu in 1976 - infectious disease specialist Edwin D. Kilbourne, now 88 and retired, was the center of the last warning to swine flu in the US in 1976, a strain of swine flu has swept Fort Dix military base in New Jersey. The virus has infected about 500...

Confirmed first US death from swine flu is visiting Mexican Boy

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Confirmed first US death from swine flu is visiting Mexican Boy - Houston Department of Health and Human Services says a child of 23 months, from Texas died Monday night swine flu. The child had recently traveled with family members in Mexico. HDHHS the press conference on the issue takes place at...

Stock buy soap?

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Stock buy soap? - A survey which measures how much Americans know and are concerned about the outbreak of swine flu conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health estimates that hand washing is increasing ( 59% do it more often) and other viewpoints. Meanwhile, Harvard has closed its schools...

the outbreak may have started in Canada?

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the outbreak may have started in Canada? - According to the apparently erroneous assumption of the Canadian government that the origin of the swine flu epidemic was probably nothing to do with domestic pigs, if this fact? On May 2, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency had this to say about the epidemic...

Aspirin So Long, Hello Silver

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Aspirin So Long, Hello Silver - Unstickers. nanoscale silver grains (black spots) can keep the cells of blood platelets to bind together. S. Shrivastava et al. ACS Nano Millions of people worldwide are prone to dangerous blood clots. researchers have...

Swine Flu Strikes Hog Farm in Argentina

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Swine Flu Strikes Hog Farm in Argentina - Influenza A (H1N1) virus of swine flu hit a pig farm in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the second case known viruses infecting swine pandemic. The epidemic was announced in a statement by the Food Safety Agency of Argentina SENASA Wednesday; yesterday,...

Institutions, Spar Over Rights to RNAi

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Institutions, Spar Over Rights to RNAi - A fight broke out over who has important pieces of RNA interference (RNAi) technology, a strategy to silence genes that could be very lucrative businesses understand how to apply it to human disease. Last week, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of...

China Cracks Down on Internet Addiction Therapy Dubious

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China Cracks Down on Internet Addiction Therapy Dubious - BEIJING The Chinese government banned the controversial application of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for that one called Internet addiction. Although there is no meeting of minds about whether Internet addiction is a real disorder, Chinese...

SLAC Worker Accused fusion protein crystals

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SLAC Worker Accused fusion protein crystals - A former employee at the National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC in Palo Alto, California, was arrested Monday for allegedly destroying at least 4000 samples of protein crystals by removing from cryogenic vessels in the laboratory and let them out to thaw....

Splinter pathologists Army Institute Of Company to form

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Splinter pathologists Army Institute Of Company to form - More than two dozen pathologists have left the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, DC, to form a new company that will offer the same pathology consultation services as the 150-year-old institute. AFIP expected to be...

Vaccine against swine flu US: Good News, Bad News

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Vaccine against swine flu US: Good News, Bad News - An increasing number of influenza experts in the United States are concerned that the wave of the swine flu started to hit the country may peak before a vaccine can do much good, a news story in today's edition of science explains. On October...

Rethinking against influenza vaccine ingredients 2010

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Rethinking against influenza vaccine ingredients 2010 - Next winter in the Southern Hemisphere, vaccines against influenza should not be designed to protect against the seasonal H1N1 strain the pandemic strain H1N1 has replaced, according to the World health Organization (WHO) recommendations issued...

CDC: Swine Flu Shots Get Your

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CDC: Swine Flu Shots Get Your - As the availability of the vaccine against swine flu is increasing steadily, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is intensifying its efforts against a growing sense of complacency in the country about the pandemic. At a press conference today, Anne...

Judge throws stem cells Lawsuit

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Judge throws stem cells Lawsuit - a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the policy of the Obama administration lifted restrictions on the use of federal funds to study human embryonic stem cells. Christian groups had sued the National Institutes...

Arthritis in motion

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Arthritis in motion - Invasion. WASR (black arrows, left ) degrade cartilage healthy mice (white arrows). This piece once healthy cartilage was torn WASR migrating through the body ( right ). Stephanie Lefevre and Elena Neumann The same cells that ravage...

After the fight with Roche Group casts doubt on Tamiflu

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After the fight with Roche Group casts doubt on Tamiflu - Does oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, to prevent complications from influenza, as pneumonia and influenza? We are no longer safe, the Cochrane Collaboration, an international group that produces reviews of the medical literature, said...
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