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Eurekalert Medical and Health News: 02-20-2006
Chemical Abstracts Service(CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe have announced a new version of the STN AnaVist analysis and visualization software that provides customers the ability to share their visualization results with others in their organization through new login IDs for Shared Projects that enable interactive viewing and through new pre-defined Project Reports.
From the 1 of March the Osteopathy and Manual Medicine Service at the Policl.nica San Jos. in Vitoria-Gasteiz, administrative capital of the Basque Autonomous Community, will have the very first Vertebral Axial Decompression Table in Spain. Patented by the North American firm, Vax-D, this will be the third Table in Europe (they have just acquired two more in Great Britain).
A study by Israeli and American researchers, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, says that reducing speed limits and extensive use of speed camera networks could significantly reduce the high number of road deaths in the United States.
Men in their 50s are more satisfied with their sex lives than men in their 30s or 40s, despite reporting that sexual function reduces with age. The survey, of 1,185 men aged 20-79, appears in the latest BJU International.
Australia's preparedness for a potential Avian Influenza pandemic will be boosted by four new projects at ANU, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
Researchers at Westmead Millennium Institute are conducting urgent research into bird flu.
Currently one million Americans suffer from aphasia. By 2020 the aphasic population of the US is projected to double. Aphasia can affect speech, understanding and/or reading comprehension.Research, using computers to do extended therapy, now indicates that these patients can continue to improve even many years after their stroke or brain trauma. Lingraphicare America has published results of studies which show significant improvements after use of the Lingraphica speech generating device.
"Unfortunately earthquake safety in the Midwest is event driven -- most people will not begin to care about the risk until an earthquake happens," says David Gillespie, PhD, a professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. "Town leaders need to think long-term about incremental improvements in safety measures that can be sustained. This is a different kind of planning, but it is necessary to be ready for the eventual catastrophic quake that will strike."
Laptop computers that combine features from popular toys with innovative technology have rapidly accelerated the learning and communication ability of disabled children, Penn State researchers say. The technology could in the future be adapted to victims of major accidents and the elderly as well.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation have successfully reversed diabetes in monkeys using transplanted islet cells from pigs.
Theories about autism spread like wildfire in the media and the general public, a panel of autism experts will reflect on the validity of four widely held - and potentially inaccurate - assumptions about the developmental disability.
Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will be presenting "Neuroscience and the Material Foundations of Ethics" at the 2006 AAAS Meeting in St. Louis, MO. As part of the February 19th symposium "Neuroscience of Ethics: Material Foundations of Moral Agency," Wolpe will discuss the implications for ethical thinking and action as discoveries about the relationship between brain structure and function and ethical decision-making begin to surface.
The lack of progress in reducing children's exposures to pesticides, despite passage in 1996 of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), will be highlighted during a symposium organized by The Organic Center at 1:45 p.m. (CT) on Sunday, February 19th at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Individuals with either of two genetic variations that lead to high serum levels of the cytokine leptin and to overexpression of leptin in fatty tissue, are more at risk of developing breast cancer than others. A study published today in the open access journal 'BMC Cancer' suggests that individuals with a specific genetic variation (polymorphism) in the gene LEP that encodes for leptin, or a polymorphism in the gene LEPR, encoding for its receptor, have an increased risk of breast cancer.
Organic diets lower children's dietary exposure to two common pesticides used in US agricultural production, according to a study by Emory University researcher Chensheng Alex Lu, PhD. The substitution of organic food items for children's normal diets substantially decreased the pesticide concentration to non-detectable levels.
Forget the textbook story about tool use and language sparking the dramatic evolutionary growth of the human brain.
Detractors of current patent systems say that the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities does not readily fit into the existing rules of the industrialized world. However, Charles McManis, JD, IP and technology law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that "at least in the short run, existing intellectual property regimes offer the most realistic avenue for securing effective legal protection for traditional knowledge holders."
At the AAAS Annual Meeting press conference, researchers disscuss new links between land-based pollution and diseases in marine mammals, with implications for human health.
According to new statistics, 2005 was the second deadliest on record for Florida's endangered manatees. A leading cause of the fatalities was the toxins produced by "red tide" blooms of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, which appear to be growing increasingly common in Florida. Gregory Bossart, from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Ft. Pierce, Fla., and colleagues, have conducted research to be presented at AAAS suggesting that the impacts of the toxins are increasing for humans as well.
In the first study of its kind focusing on newly homeless youth, UCLA researchers have found that high-risk sexual behavior did not predict whether these youths were tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Instead, they were tested only when someone became pregnant or got someone pregnant.
Former smokers from the community, a nicotine patch and group support may be the best combination for helping women in public housing stop smoking, researchers have found.
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official will address pain medicine physicians' concerns about the FDA's stance on new pain therapies in the pipeline at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's (AAPM) 22nd Annual Meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif., February 22 - 25, 2006.
Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel will present a lecture, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, based on his new book of the same title. The event, part of the Academy's "Readers & Writers" series highlighting important new science books, will be held on March 2 at the New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street.
The UC Davis School of Medicine is among 13 innovative graduate programs in the nation to receive funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to foster the translation of basic science discoveries into new medical treatments.
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin studying electric fish have gained new insight into how memory is stored at the level of neurons. Dr. Harold Zakon, Dr. J.rg Oestreich and colleagues show that when electric fish zap each other in dark waters, their neurons store a memory of the sizzling communiqu. by turning on special cell membrane channels.
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