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Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
American Public Health Association Meeting
Indiana U. at APHA: Studies about health education for people with ID, stability balls at work
The first study examines a curriculum used to help people with intellectual disabilities make good decisions about their health and fitness. People with ID are living more and more independently yet they aren't taught about personal health. The second study examines how the use of a stability ball for an office chair affects leg muscles. It also looks at the influence of handedness.

Contact: Amy Bodde
weavera@indiana.edu
Indiana University

Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature Geoscience
Deep creep means milder, more frequent earthquakes along Southern California's San Jacinto fault
University of Miami study by Dr. Shimon Wdowinski in this week's Nature Geosciences demonstrates that deep creep may mean milder, more frequent earthquakes along SoCal's San Jacinto fault, making it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its neighbor to the east, the Southern San Andreas fault.

Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
barbgo@rsmas.miami.edu
305-421-4707
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature Genetics
Developmental delay could stem from nicotinic receptor deletion
The loss of a gene through deletion of genetic material on chromosome 15 is associated with significant abnormalities in learning and behavior, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online today in the journal Nature Genetics.
National Institutes of Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortia, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Contact: Glenna Picton
picton@bcm.edu
713-798-4710
Baylor College of Medicine

Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature Nanotechnology
Findings show nanomedicine promising for treating spinal cord injuries
Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using nano-spheres that could be injected into the blood shortly after an accident.
NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund

Contact: Emil Venere
venere@purdue.edu
765-494-4709
Purdue University

Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature Chemical Biology
Scientists visualize how bacteria talk to one another
Using imaging mass spectrometry, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed tools that will enable scientists to visualize how different cell populations of cells communicate. Their study shows how bacteria talk to one another -- an understanding that may lead to new therapeutic discoveries for diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes and allergies.
National Institutes of Health, Beckman Foundation

Contact: Debra Kain
ddkain@ucsd.edu
619-543-6163
University of California - San Diego

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
American Naturalist
Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others
Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get destructive to neighboring trees.

Contact: Kevin Stacey
kstacey@press.uchicago.edu
773-834-0386
University of Chicago Press Journals

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
BioScience
AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access
Two articles about Charles Darwin and his development of the theory of evolution by natural selection have been published in the AIBS journal BioScience and have been made open to the public in honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species." The articles are by Kevin Padian and James T. Costa. Together the articles dispel some common myths about Darwin the man and detail his efforts over many years to develop a theory to explain nature's diversity.

Contact: Tim Beardsley
tbeardsley@aibs.org
202-628-1500 x226
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers
Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment by health care workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.

Contact: Sharon Reis
202-745-5103
Infectious Diseases Society of America

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
51st ASTRO Annual Meeting
PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer
A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting.

Contact: Emily Shafer
emily.shafer@jefferson.edu
215-955-6300
Thomas Jefferson University

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, and are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy.
National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society

Contact: Jessica Guenzel
jguenzel@wfubmc.edu
336-716-3487
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Ophthalmology
Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease
A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms -- and improved vision -- following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the optic nerve were significantly reduced. The same patients had not previously responded to steroids, a common treatment for Graves' eye disease.
National Institutes of Health, Research to Prevent Blindness, Bell Charitable Foundation

Contact: Betsy Nisbet
bsnisbet@umich.edu
734-647-5586
University of Michigan Health System

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Less than 1 in 3 Toronto bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest try to help: Study
Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts CPR can quadruple the survival rate to over 50 percent. But Dr. Laurie Morrison and the research team at Rescu have found only 30 percent of bystanders in Toronto are willing to help, one of the lowest rates of bystanders helping others in the developed world.

Contact: Julie Saccone
sacconej@smh.toronto.on.ca
416-864-5047
St. Michael's Hospital

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease
A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease. A five-member team of researchers from University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry report that pentamidine might be adapted to counter genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy.
National Institutes of Health Muscular Dystrophy Association

Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
541-346-3481
University of Oregon

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
NHLBI stops enrollment in study on resuscitation methods for cardiac arrest
Enrollment has ended early in a large, multi-center clinical trial comparing two distinct resuscitation strategies delivered by emergency medical service (EMS) providers to increase blood flow during cardiac arrest. The study's independent monitoring board and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the lead sponsor of the study, stopped enrollment based on preliminary data suggesting that neither strategy significantly improved survival
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Contact: NHLBI Office of Communications
nhlbi_news@nhlbi.nih.gov
301-496-4236
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Science
Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life, study shows
As the climate gets warmer, arid soils lose nitrogen as gas, reports a new Cornell study. That could lead to deserts with even less plant life than they sustain today, say the researchers.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Blaine Friedlander
bpf2@cornell.edu
607-254-8093
Cornell University

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Local health investigation sheds light on gastroschisis birth defect
Results of an investigation conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers, public health officials and area physicians published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, indicate that Washoe County experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007-April 2008. Subsequent review of medical records since the study's conclusion indicates that while the rate is still elevated, the cluster appears to have subsided.

Contact: Claudene Wharton
whartonc@unr.edu
775-784-1169
University of Nevada, Reno

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Archives of General Psychiatry
Psychiatric impact of torture could be amplified by head injury
Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, based at Massachusetts General Hospital. The researchers found structural changes in the brains of former South Vietnamese political detainees who had suffered head injuries and clearly linked those changes to psychiatric symptoms often seen in survivors of torture.
National Institute of Health, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of South Korea

Contact: Sue McGreevey
smcgreevey@partners.org
617-724-2764
Massachusetts General Hospital

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Current Biology
Babies with an accent
Newborns cry differently depending on their mother tongue.

Contact: Dr. Angela D. Friederici
angelafr@cbs.mpg.de
49-341-994-0112
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
PLoS Pathogens
Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health

Contact: Barry Whyte
whyte@vbi.vt.edu
540-231-1767
Virginia Tech

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Poll: Many parents, high-priority adults who tried to get H1N1 vaccine unable to get it
A new national poll from Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that a majority of adults who tried to get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves or their children have been unable to do so.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Contact: Todd Datz
tdatz@hsph.harvard.edu
617-432-3952
Harvard School of Public Health

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Carnegie Mellon researchers link health-care debate to risk of dying in US and Europe
A new Web site, www.DeathriskRankings.com, developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon allows users to explore differences in the probability of dying across European countries and the US states for men and women of different ages and races.

Contact: Chriss Swaney
swaney@andrew.cmu.edu
412-268-5776
Carnegie Mellon University

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have now demonstrated that plasmid-based methods, which had been limited to single-cell organisms such as bacteria and yeasts, can be extended to mosses, opening the door to applications of a number of powerful techniques in plant research. The findings have been published in the distinguished journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Contact: Hans Ronne
hans.ronne@imbim.uu.se
46-184-714-230
Uppsala University

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
SNM applauds House action to build medical isotopes reactor in the US
SNM applauds the US House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276 -- the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009.

Contact: Amy Shaw
ashaw@snm.org
703-652-6773
Society of Nuclear Medicine

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Science
Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with ‘chemical precision’
An international team of scientists from the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Argentina and the United States has shown in a paper to be published in Science shortly how the chemistry of surface reactions underpinning catalysis can be modeled accurately with computers.
Stichting Nationale Computerfaciliteiten, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Contact: Professor Geert-Jan Kroes
g.j.kroes@chem.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-274-396
Leiden University

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements
Researchers from the University of Granada (Spain) have designed a system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield following the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move They have used settings of Panzer General, a commercial war video game, for the development of this software .

Contact: Antonio Miguel Mora García
amorag@geneura.ugr.es
34-958-240-838
University of Granada

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