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Showing releases 1-25 out of 448 releases.
Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
American Public Health Association MeetingIndiana 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
Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
 Nature GeoscienceDeep 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
Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature GeneticsDevelopmental 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
Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature NanotechnologyFindings 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
Public Release: 8-Nov-2009
Nature Chemical BiologyScientists 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
American NaturalistAnts 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
BioScienceAIBS 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
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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
51st ASTRO Annual MeetingPET 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & PreventionNew 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
OphthalmologyResearchers 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
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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPossible 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
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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
ScienceNitrogen 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent MedicineLocal 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Archives of General PsychiatryPsychiatric 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Current BiologyBabies with an accent Newborns cry differently depending on their mother tongue. Contact: Dr. Angela D. Friederici
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
PLoS PathogensPathogen 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
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
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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDNA 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
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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
ScienceComputer 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
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and ApplicationsA 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
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