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Depression
Care Management Reduces Suicidal Ideation in Geriatric Depression
Depression in older adults too often goes unrecognized and untreated, resulting in untold misery, worsening of medical illness, and early death. A new study has identified one important remedy: Adding a trained depression care manager to primary care practices can increase the number of patients receiving treatment, lead to a higher remission rate of depression, and reduce suicidal thoughts.
Jun 24, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access
BioMed Central and Wilfrid Laurier University today announce the launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository that provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all members of the University community.
Jun 24, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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New detectors for nuclear, radiological material in cargo should not be acquired until testing deficiencies fixed, cost-benefit analysis completed
WASHINGTON -- A thorough cost-benefit analysis that includes an assessment of meaningful alternatives is needed to reveal the potential security advantages of deploying new detector systems to screen cargo for nuclear and radiological materials at U.S. ports and border crossings. It is likely that the costs will exceed the savings gained from improved efficiency of the screening systems, says a new report from the National Research Council. There are shortcomings in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's testing of these new detector systems, therefore the DHS secretary cannot conclude whether they will consistently outperform the current ones. DHS should not proceed with further procurement of these new detector systems until the issues are addressed and the systems have been shown to be a favored option in the cost-benefit analysis.
Jun 24, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Researcher finds Girl Scout meetings provide an opportunity to increase girls' physical activity
Girls typically are less physically active than boys, but a Kansas State University researcher has found that organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting to get girls moving early in life and to develop lifelong healthy habits.
Jun 24, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Iowa State University researcher looks at the future of agriculture
AMES, Iowa - Dramatic price fluctuations, increasing demand, the food vs. fuel debate, and other events of the past year may have food producers wondering which way is up.
Jun 24, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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NIH expands Human Microbiome Project; funds sequencing centers and disease projects
The Human Microbiome Project has awarded more than $42 million to expand its exploration of how the trillions of microscopic organisms that live in or on our bodies affect our health, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today.
Jun 23, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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How adolescent girls manage stress
Greater influence over everyday life, emotional support, and cultural and recreational activities help to enable teenage girls to withstand stress. Those were the results of a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jun 23, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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New agreement to link up Europe's polar research
More than 26 leading scientific institutions across Europe are signing up to closer research cooperation through a new European Polar Framework agreement today in Brussels. The framework agreement is a major outcome from the four-year EUROPOLAR ERA-NET initiative, funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 6, which ended in February this year.
Jun 23, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Psychiatry
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Sleep Disorders
Snoring due to sleep apnea can damage brain severely
Snoring due sleep apnea may impair brain function in a much worse way than previously thought, according to a new study.
Jun 22, 2009 - 11:23:57 AM
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Cancer
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Colon
Alcohol, cigarettes can cause bowel cancer
Beware of alcohol and cigarettes, they can cause bowel cancer, says a new study.
Jun 22, 2009 - 11:12:04 AM
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Underground cave dating from the year 1 A.D. exposed in Jordan Valley
An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology. Prof. Adam Zertal, who headed the excavating team, reckons that this cave was originally a large quarry during the Roman and Byzantine era and was one of its kind. Various engravings were uncovered in the cave, including cross markings, and it is assumed that this could have been an early monastery. It is probably the site of Galgala from the historical Madaba Map, Prof. Zertal says.
Jun 22, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Rice computing pioneer wins IEEE Computer Society award
Rice University computer scientist Krishna Palem, who also heads the Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has won the prestigious 2008 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his pioneering contributions to the growing field of embedded computing.
Jun 22, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November
Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will now launch on 2 November 2009.
Jun 22, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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EUROPACE raises remote monitoring profile
Moving to a more continuous follow-up approach would have the tremendous advantages of enhancing patient safety, decreasing physician and nurse work load, and allowing health staff to focus on medical emergencies, urged Professor Angelo Auricchio, from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and official spokesperson of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), adding that such systems may have the additional advantage of being more cost effective for health care providers.
Jun 21, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Ice sheets can retreat 'in a geologic instant,' study of prehistoric glacier shows
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo.
Jun 21, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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New supplement may help slow sight loss in elderly
Queen's University Belfast academics have helped develop an antioxidant supplement which may slow down sight loss in elderly people.
Jun 19, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Safety-critical software put under scrutiny
Eliminating the potential for catastrophic medical, energy and transportation disasters due to software failure is the aim of a new $21-million global research centre to be located at McMaster University. It will be one of the first such centres in the world.
Jun 19, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Genetics
History, geography also seem to shape our genome
History and geography shape our genome, according to a new study.
Jun 18, 2009 - 6:00:21 PM
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Cardiology
Anemia linked with higher death risk in heart patients
The presence of anaemia in patients with chronic heart failure is linked to a significantly higher risk of death.
Jun 18, 2009 - 3:42:28 PM
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Cardiology
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Hypertension
Kids with hypertension more likely to fumble in studies
Children with high blood pressure are more likely to have learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - than other children. If they are both hypertensive and obese, they are also more likely to have anxiety and depression too.
Jun 18, 2009 - 1:23:55 PM
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Cancer
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Brain
Electronic nose potent new weapon against brain cancer
An electronic 'nose' developed by NASA for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also act as a potent new weapon against brain cancer.
Jun 18, 2009 - 1:23:51 PM
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Health
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Sleep Hygiene
Meditation may be effective for treating insomnia
Meditation may be an effective remedy in treating insomnia, latest research suggests.
Jun 18, 2009 - 1:01:21 PM
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Medical News
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Professionals
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Doctors
Indian American helps design vaginal ring to prevent HIV transmission
An Indian American endocrinologist has helped develop a vaginal ring that would prevent conception and transmission of HIV infection, by releasing multiple types of non-hormonal agents and microbicides.
Jun 18, 2009 - 12:27:59 PM
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Healthcare
Society doing hyperactive kids a disservice
Authors and educators are doing hyperactive children a disservice by insisting that hyperactivity has always existed.
Jun 18, 2009 - 11:30:46 AM
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7th annual [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference 'Molecular Evolution' June 18-19, 2009
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Biozentrum of the University of Basel's 7th annual [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference Molecular Evolution, opened today at the Congress Center in Basel. This year, the conference celebrates the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his major work, On the Origin of the Species.
Jun 18, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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U-M researcher and colleagues predict large 2009 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone'
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar fishery.
Jun 18, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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NOAA forecast predicts large 'dead zone' for Gulf of Mexico this summer
A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the dead zone off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record. The dead zone is an area in the Gulf of Mexico where seasonal oxygen levels drop too low to support most life in bottom and near-bottom waters.
Jun 18, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Neurosciences
Brain protein BDNF might get you hooked on drugs, alcohol
A brain protein can practically hook you on to drugs and alcohol by hijacking the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
Jun 17, 2009 - 2:23:59 PM
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UC Davis historian catalogs US secrets, lies and conspiracies
The government's own secrets, lies and conspiracies have fueled a 45-year-long decline in America's trust in its leaders, a University of California, Davis, history professor argues in a new book.
Jun 17, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star
An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars.
Jun 16, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Study: Ads attacking Supreme Court nominees damage public support of high court
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Nasty, politicized Supreme Court nomination battles may erode public support of the high Court, according to a study of public reactions to the Samuel Alito nomination process.
Jun 16, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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New report outlines current, future impacts of climate change
A new report issued today by the U.S. Global Change Research Program outlines the extent of climate change around the U.S. and its effects not only at present but for the future as well.
Jun 16, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Online obituaries are changing the way we publicly remember the dead and how newspapers cover deaths
The ways we deal with death are finding a new life online, according to research being published by a Kansas State University journalism professor and her colleague.
Jun 16, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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D. C. Math for America awarded $1.5-million NSF grant
Washington, D.C. To combat the trend of declining qualified mathematics teachers in middle and high school, the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie Academy for Science Education (CASE) launched a partnership in 2008 with Math for America (MfA) and American University (AU). The Math for America (MfA DC) program's goal is to improve the mathematics education of Washington, D.C., public and public charter secondary school students. The program selects, on a competitive basis, individuals with undergraduate degrees in mathematics or related disciplines to become MfA DC Fellows and educates them to become skilled teachers. Using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the National Science Foundation has just awarded MfA DC a $ 1.498-million grant to cover the tuition, stipend, and mentoring costs for the first 14 Fellows. The first group of six Fellows arrives in the city on June 15.
Jun 15, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Scientific evidence of health problems from past contamination of drinking water at Camp Lejeune is limited and unlikely to be resolved with further study
WASHINGTON -- Evidence exists that people who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North Carolina between the 1950s and 1985 were exposed to the industrial solvents tricholorethylene (TCE) or perchloroethylene (PCE) in their water supply, but strong scientific evidence is not available to determine whether health problems among those exposed are due to the contaminants, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report adds that further research will unlikely provide definitive information on whether exposure resulted in adverse health effects in most cases. Therefore, policy changes or administrative actions to address and resolve the concerns associated with the exposures should not be deferred pending new or potential health studies.
Jun 15, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Rice University researchers ask if biofuels will lead to a 'drink or drive'
Rice University scientists warned that the United States must be careful that the new emphasis on developing biofuels as an alternative to imported oil takes into account potential damage to the nation's water resources.
Jun 15, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Psychiatry
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Sleep Disorders
Caffeine may prevent risk taking after sleep deprivation
Washington, June 12 - A dose of caffeine may prevent increased risk taking that occurs after several nights of total sleep deprivation, according to the latest research.
Jun 12, 2009 - 2:36:11 PM
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Dual role in breast tissue for a protein involved in leukemia
Washington, DC - A protein known to play a role in growth of some types of leukemia appears to have a mixed function in breast cancer development, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).
Jun 12, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Snoring pregnant women at higher risk for gestational diabetes
CHICAGO --- If you are pregnant and your mate complains your frequent snoring is rattling the bedroom windows, you may have bigger problems than an annoyed, sleep-deprived partner.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Blocking a muscle growth-limiting hormone protects against obesity and atherosclerosis
Knockout of myostatin, a growth factor that limits muscle growth, can decrease body fat and promote resistance against developing atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, according to a new study conducted in mice. The results will be presented Thursday at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Childhood obesity increases early signs of cardiovascular disease
By as early as 7 years of age, being obese may raise a child's future risk of heart disease and stroke, even without the presence of other cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, a new study found. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Nicotine induces prediabetes, likely contributes to high prevalence of heart disease in smokers
Researchers have discovered a reason why smoking greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Nicotine promotes insulin resistance, also called prediabetes, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, according to the new study, which was presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Widely used body fat measurements overestimate fatness in blacks
The body mass index (BMI) and waistline measurement overestimate obesity in blacks, according to a new study. The results, which were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., suggest that conventional methods for estimating body fat may need to become race-specific.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Officials commend UH's leadership in creation of ship channel security district
The University of Houston is being credited with playing a pivotal role in the creation of the Houston Ship Channel Security District, which was approved unanimously by Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday morning.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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'Designer molecules' being developed to fight disease
Researchers in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester are developing a new way to make protein based drugs with potential applications in stroke, vascular inflammation, blood vessel formation, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
Jun 11, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Postpartum anxiety delays puberty in offspring
Hormonal changes early in pregnancy cause maternal postpartum anxiety and behavior changes that can lead to a delayed onset of puberty in both birth and adoptive daughters, according to a new study conducted in mice. The results will be presented Wednesday at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Our exposure to controversial chemical may be greater than dose considered safe
People are likely being exposed to the commonly used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) at levels much higher than the recommended safe daily dose, according to a new study in monkeys. The results will be presented Thursday at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth
Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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New family-focused model of depression care needed to minimize risks
WASHINGTON -- Health and social service professionals who care for adults with depression should not only tackle their clients' physical and mental health, but also detect and prevent possible spillover effects on their children, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. To achieve this new family-focused model of depression care, federal and state agencies, nonprofits, and the private sector will have to experiment with nontraditional ways of organizing, paying for, and delivering services, said the committee that wrote the report.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:00:00 AM
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Peculiar, junior-sized supernova discovered by New York teen
In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so. Additional observations determined that the object, called SN 2008ha, is a new type of stellar explosion, 1000 times more powerful than a nova but 1000 times less powerful than a supernova. Astronomers say that it may be the weakest supernova ever seen.
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