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Heads up Newswise Blog readers! This blog will soon be moving to its new home on the Newswise site, at http://www.newswise.com/blog. We will leave this Blogspot blog up and accessible as an archive of our previous posts, but all new posts will go up on the Newswise.com/blog site. Three for the Price of One The Newswise blog is going to be divided up into three categories, by topic. The Hot

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As the use of embedded video in news releases has risen in recent years, we wanted to initiate a discussion and keep our finger on the pulse of how it’s working for our colleagues in media relations, particularly for higher-ed institutions. There has been an interesting discussion about this topic going on over at the PIOnet group on LinkedIn.The comments we will discuss hit on three major

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From the Immigration Policy Center: Arizona's Punishing Law Doesn't Fit the CrimeStudies Show Decrease in Arizona Crime Rates Over TimeApril 28, 2010 Washington, D.C. - Supporters of Arizona's harsh new immigration law claim that it is, in part, a crime-fighting measure.  However, people like Republican State Senator Russell Pearce of Mesa, the bill's author, overlook two salient points: crime

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More than a year in the making, the U.S. Congress and President Obama have completed their reforms to the health insurance system.  It has been extremely interesting to watch the developing debate - sorting out fact from fiction, and reading copious expert analysis in the Newswise Health Care Channel. The heightened interest in health care has lead reporters to seek more sources for health news

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My colleague, Zakira Beasley, writes in with some hopeful thoughts for the upcoming Spring season, and shares some info about Newswise Theme Wires. It’s been a rough winter here in the Mid-Atlantic region. We haven’t seen bare ground since December, and temperatures at night remain in the 20’s. This is nothing for many areas of the US and Canada, but for us in Virginia the snowfall has broken

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The 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and I can't help but get excited. As a big-time ski-enthusiast, I'm especially looking forward to my favorite events like the Giant Slalom, Snowboarding, and all the other alpine events. I have fond memories of the time I was able to go to the '02 Games in Salt Lake City, where I watched Apolo Ohno skate his way to gold, and I saw Russia and

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My Newswise colleague, Zakira writes in with a recommended link about media relations and the online newsroom. -ed.This concise article discusses the essential and optional components of an online newsroom. Perhaps obvious to media relations professionals, these points are still valid for any organization, whether non-profit, higher education or corporate. Also discussed are newsroom best

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There is a lot of talk in the PR world about the evolution of the press release – gone are the days of print-outs and mailings – and some even herald the waning influence of the emailed press release (though my inbox provides copious evidence to the contrary). Savvy PR professionals know that exaggerations about the “death of the press release” are premature, and they know that newswire services

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Last week, Newswise.com was experiencing some intermittent server issues, causing slow response times and long delays on pageloads. It was frustrating for all of us, including you, dear user. After a lot of hard work and some expert diagnostics, the site is working at normal speed and the issues seem to be resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work out the kinks.

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Tamiflu Metabolite Measured in Japanese Sewage Discharge, River Water - This story, posted to Newswise on Monday, September 29, has attracted quite a lot of attention, particularly as the H1N1 flu virus continues to affect concerns about the upcoming flu season. Tamiflu is arguably the most popular over-the-counter treatment, and is considered a viable option to at least speed up recovery if

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Babies with Position-Related Head Flattening May Have Higher Rate of Ear InfectionsShared via AddThis

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Hello there, Journalists, Bloggers, Clients and friends of Newswise! As I wrote a few weeks ago, we've undergone many changes here at Newswise with the launch of our revamped website. With a lot of valuable user-feedback, we've made some improvements and we hope you're enjoying the new site.For some additional info, I've asked my cohorts in Member Services to come up with some tips for our

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Welcome friends, fans, media types, researchers, science nerds, bloggers, journalists, and John Q. Publics; Welcome to Newswise 2.0.It's been a little over a week since we launched the new, revamped Newswise.com, and overall, things have been a huge success. There's a lot of enhancements to site navigation, including drop-down menus across the top of the site for easy access to browse news

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Study Reveals Major Genetic Differences Between Blood and Tissue Cells New research reveals there may be some critical variations in the DNA of blood versus tissue samples, particularly when it comes to researching and treating disease. McGill University researchers in Montreal, while searching for a genetic cause for Abdominal Aortic Aneurisms (AAA), found that a gene found in tissue samples

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Exciting things on the horizon for Newswise!  We've stepped up our presence in the social media, including several Twitter feeds, here, here, here, and here. Coming soon - a whole new look to the Newswise website - with better navigation, search engine, sharing and recommending links, and eventually, a place for the blog on our domain! If you are interested in getting a look at the new site

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Most of us think of Earth as a nurturing place, with a natural equilibrium where life thrives and flourishes.Some refer to that idea as the Gaia hypothesis, named for the ancient Greek goddess of Earth. The Gaia hypothesis suggests that the planet behaves as a kind of giant organism, with its complex systems finely tuned to compensate when one system gets out of kilter.But Peter Ward, a

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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Ever miss your daily cup of coffee and subsequently get a pounding headache? According to reports from consumers of coffee and other caffeinated products, caffeine withdrawal is often characterized by a headache, fatigue, feeling less alert, less energetic and experiencing difficulty concentrating. Researchers from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Children who are firstborn or breech or whose mothers are 35 or older when giving birth are at significantly greater risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have reported in a new study with Utah children. In the April 27, 2009, online issue of the journal Pediatrics, the researchers showed that women who give birth at 35 or older are

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The strong preference kids with autism have for certain foods places them at risk for nutritional deficiencies because their diets lack sufficient variety, according to research presented at this year's Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Baltimore. Researchers said screening children for the amount of variety of food in their diets may be a good clinical marker to predict which children

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A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users, UCLA researchers have found. In a study published in the online edition of the journal Diabetes, researchers from the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center at UCLA found that

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Federal requirements to increase the production of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water quality, says an environmental engineering researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. In an analysis of the water

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Over the next 20 years, the number of new cancer cases diagnosed annually in the United States will increase by 45 percent, from 1.6 million in 2010 to 2.3 million in 2030, with a dramatic spike in incidence predicted in the elderly and minority populations, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The study, published online today in Journal of Clinical

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Obese workers with type 2 diabetes report less productivity on the job than their normal-weight co-workers, according to a new study of 7,338 working adults. "We obtained information directly from individuals on how effective they were at the workplace to provide their perspective of the impact of diabetes and obesity on patients' lives," said study co-author Kathleen Fox, Ph.D. In a survey of

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On Monday, April 27, 2009, the official swine flu outbreak death toll in Mexico reached 149, as reported by the Washington Post.  As frightened Mexican citizens try to avoid contracting the virus, the nation is practically under a voluntary quarantine. Schools are closed until May 6.  Mexican futbol teams play in empty stadiums.  Those brave enough to go out in public are encouraged to wear

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Imagine suffering from kidney disease for months, undergoing difficult and invasive treatments, only to find that surgery is necessary to remove a kidney. Kidney surgery just got a whole lot easier, now that a surgeon has developed a new surgical technique that requires only one small incision to remove the diseased organ. By inserting a camera and two surgical instruments through the patient's

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As you get acquainted with using new media tools, whether it's for your own pleasure or for professional reasons, do you ever find yourself getting frustrated? Do you get furious over Facebook as you manage your profile and look for good apps? Do you dig yourself into a hole on Digg, or get red-faced mad over comments on Reddit? Are you positively twitching with what's-the-point-of-Twitter

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In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter -- just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message, "using EEG to send tweet," demonstrates a natural, manageable way in which "locked-in" patients can couple brain-computer interface technologies with modern communication tools. A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering

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Those who act more dominantly are perceived as more competent, even if their actual skills don't measure up. The guy (or gal) in charge isn't really competent for the job. How can this be? Researchers at the University of California explored this phenomenon in their study titled, "Why Do Dominant Personalities Attain Influence in Face-to-Face Groups? The Competence-Signaling Effects of Trait

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"No Child Left Behind" resulted in limited opportunities for students to be physically active during the school day. That may soon change, if the results of a study suggesting the academic benefits of physical education classes, recess periods and after-school exercise is taken seriously by policy-makers."The goal of the study was to see if a single acute bout of moderate exercise - walking -

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A study of sex education in Illinois public schools found that only 42 percent of sex education teachers passed the comprehensiveness test. The four basic topics required to be rated "comprehensive:" abstinence until marriage or older, HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and contraception."For this study, we set the bar for comprehensiveness fairly low relative to what most medical

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One in six patients taking drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's disease are turning into hypersexual, compulsive gamblers.The culprit meds are part of a family of drugs called dopamine agonists, a class of drugs that include pramipexole and ropinirole. They are commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease, and sometimes restless legs syndrome. They stimulate brain limbic circuits, which are

Newswise Staffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531474795849198.post-34203739277935632472009-04-06T12:32:00.000-04:002009-04-06T12:32:57.803-04:00

Adolescents should be screened for clinical depression, but only when appropriate systems are in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.  Clinical depression is an important cause of poor health and lower quality of life among children and adolescents.  Depression can cause difficulties in school and disruptions of family and social relationships "Depression in

Newswise Staffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531474795849198.post-2933537120764842872009-04-01T12:28:00.000-04:002009-04-06T12:50:32.624-04:00

Video game experts and game studies researchers came up with the top 10 most unexpected findings for video game designers over the past year. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, audience members -- both at the panel and via Twitter -- ranked the findings in order of their importance. Topics include everything from advances in game design to the very fundamentals of gaming and

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The tabloid media has kept a close eye on the slow-motion train wreck of Octo-Mom Nadia Sulaiman, a California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets, bringing her grand total of children to 14.  TV interviews, absurd calls to 911, and scuffles with paparazzi have shown that this woman may not be entirely stable.  New research reveals that one more complication for the Octo-Mom could be a

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Predicting breast cancer metastasis may get easier with a new process called TMEM,  Tumor Microenvironment of Metastasis. TMEM is determined by measuring cellular activity in a concentrated area of the tumor, identifying three types of cells and how they interact; invasive carcinoma cells, perivascular white blood cells (macrophages), and the endothelial cells that line vessel walls. A higher

Newswise Staffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531474795849198.post-15681759519490443202009-03-30T15:36:00.000-04:002009-03-30T15:36:53.622-04:00

Proactive people with diabetes might take good care of themselves and believe they have the condition under control, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have good blood sugar.  Other believe that whatever they do, they have no control over their diabetes. According to a study in Health Services Research, these and other factors effect how people manage their diabetes risk.  "People are not

Newswise Staffnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531474795849198.post-36983836205549847722009-03-30T13:58:00.000-04:002009-03-30T15:45:02.267-04:00

Nobody wants to share a cubicle with a new hire like Dwight Schrute. The beet-farming volunteer sheriff's deputy/paper salesman creates many awkward moments because of his differences with co-workers on NBC's "The Office." But according to new research, better decisions come from teams that include a "socially distinct newcomer." That's psychology-speak for someone who is different enough to

Newswise Staffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531474795849198.post-58879954264969318602009-03-27T14:43:00.000-04:002009-03-27T14:45:48.517-04:00

Chemists have developed the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel. Turning algae into biofuel was previously a high-cost process, but this new process utilizes a re-usable, waste-free catalyst that reduces production costs by about 40%.This new process makes algae, "the most promising source for mass biodiesel production to replace transportation fuel in

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A computerized health care software platform would improve delivery of health care, increase physician productivity, foster advances in science, as well as stimulate job and economic growth, according to researchers writing in The New England Journal of Medicine.With $19 billion dollars of funding provided for health care information technology (IT) in President Obama's economic stimulus package,

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"We knew that locating an incoming object while still in space could be done, but it had never actually been demonstrated until now," says Mark Boslough, a member of the research team that successfully tracked an asteroid in space before it entered the atmosphere, broke up, and bits of it landed on the ground.On October 6, Numerous observatories detected the object and captured images of it.

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Grammarians rejoice! The classic little book "The Elements of Style" - the English classroom staple that urges omitting needless words, explains subject-verb agreement and savors the active voice - turns 50. The story behind it began at Cornell University. In a 1957 New Yorker column, writer E.B. White (Cornell Class of 1921) praised "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr., his former

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Maize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8700 years ago.Studies confirmed some time ago that maize derived from teosinte, a large wild grass that has five species growing in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. This recent discovery in Mexico's Central Balsas River Valley is the oldest biological evidence of domesticated maize."We went to the area where the closest relative to maize

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Eating red meat and processed meat modestly increases risk of death from cancer or heart disease. In a pool of 500,000 study participants, the top 20% consumers of red meat and processed meats had higher rates of death than the 20% that consumed the least amount of red and processed meats.So, how much is too much?  The higher meat consumption group tended to eat at least 6-10 times more meat than

Newswise Staffnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531474795849198.post-84341416490406431482009-03-24T16:09:00.000-04:002009-03-24T16:09:55.049-04:00

Runners, if your body is telling you that your pace is too fast or too slow, you should listen up.  The long-standing view that running has the same metabolic cost per unit of time no matter the speed has officialy been debunked by recent studies.  It turns out that the efficiency of energy burnt by running varies with speed, and each individual has an optimal pace.  While measuring runners'

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A new yogurt has proved it can fight the bacteria that causes gastritis and stomach ulcers with an almost vaccine-like effect.Yogurt, a fermented milk product containing live bacteria, has always been a known healthy source of calcium, protein, and other nutrients, but some brands are now also adding probiotics intended to improve health.A new brand of yogurt in Japan now uses probiotics to

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With these difficult economic conditions, automakers face what some gearheads call carmaggedon.In IEEE Spectrum's annual survey of trends in car technology, experts predict there will soon be fewer car companies making fewer kinds of cars. For example Volkswagen's dozen separate models, totaling well over 1 million units a year, on the basic components of its Golf/Jetta/Rabbit line. Or the

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Hollow gold particles called nanospheres, smaller than the finest flecks of dust, can be targeted to search out and "cook" cancer cells.As a minimally invasive treatment in skin cancer, for example, the hollow gold nanospheres are equipped with a special "peptide" that draws the nanospheres directly to melanoma cells, avoiding healthy skin cells. After collecting inside the cancer, the

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After a catastrophic stroke, it's always painful and difficult to decide whether aggressive surgery is worth it. Even under the best circumstances after a severe infarction, patients could experience paralysis, loss of speech, breathing problems, and at the very least they could require help bathing, cooking, and taking care of themselves. But recent research findings may make the decision over

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Like adults, kids who are more spiritual or religious tend to be healthier, according to a researcher examining the correlation between physical health and spiritual faith."One significant finding was that children who attended church were more likely to have higher T-cell counts than non churchgoing children," says Dr. Barry Nierenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, associate professor of psychology at Nova

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Do you suffer from Osteoarthritis (OA), the painful “wear and tear” arthritis that can affect any joint in the body? You're not alone. The American Academy of Orthapaedic Surgeons (AAOS) estimates some 33 million Americans are affected by osteoarthritis, most commonly occurring in people who are 65 years of age or older. OA of the knee can have a major effect on a person’s ability to engage in

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Ithaca College journalism professor Jeff Cohen sums things up quite plainly when he says the mainstream media simply cannot "dismiss independent media voices as 'unprofessional'."  In fact, according to Cohen, the mainstream media is "struggling to catch up and learn from the independents."Citing recent groundbreaking investigative reporting by bloggers and awards presented to leading members of

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By studying the genetic make-up of simple organisms like yeast, nematode worms, and fruit flies, researchers have found some answers to questions about the human aging process. Each of these tiny animals' longevity-related genes have a corresponding human version, and these so-called longevity proteins are highly connected "hubs" involved in complex cellular functions with a substantial influence

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The prostate cancer screening tests that have become an annual ritual for many men do not appear to reduce deaths from the disease among those with a limited life-expectancy. Study results show six years of aggressive, annual screening for prostate cancer led to more diagnoses of prostate tumors but did not lead to fewer deaths from the disease."The important message is that for men with a life

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Educational video games have gained acceptance as an instructional tool in our nation's schools, prompting researchers to examine the direct effects on student mathematical achievement.Therefore, lead researcher Albert Ritzhaupt and his team at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Watson School of Education will observe nearly 500 middle school students, 15 teachers, technology trainers,

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Human embryonic stem cells have a mechanism that controls decisions for differentiation or self-renewal, and recently, researchers unlocked one mystery to how that process takes place. A protein called Shp2 had an effect on stem cell differentiation in both human and mouse embryonic cells.When scientists mutated the Shp2 protein, rendering it inactive, cell differentiation was suppressed. When

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Long-term opioid use may increase pain sensitivity in chronic pain patients.A recent study examined three groups of subjects, chronic pain patients being treated with the opioids methadone or morphine, patients on methadone-maintenace to treat previous opioid addiction, and healthy drug-free individuals as a control group. The study confirmed that methadone-maintained patients and chronic pain

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When your worries seem unbearable and overwhelming, it's important to know that there is hope for getting relief from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).But how can you tell if you have generalized anxiety? When the worries are out of proportion to the concern, interfere with day-to-day activities, and you cannot recall the last time you felt at ease, it may be time to see a doctor. Signs and

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What constitutes good quality teaching? According to research, the answer is "not No Child Left Behind."As Congress begins to look at renewing the No Child Left Behind Act, there is clear evidence that the NCLB's focus on high-stakes testing has "actually undermined the quality of teaching in reading and math," says Professor of Education Linda Valli of the University of Maryland.Professor Valli

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It makes sense that people with similar weight, diet, and body mass index (BMI) numbers should have similar risks for Diabetes, right? Actually, diabetes prevalence is at least twice as high in some ethnic groups as it is in whites. In a recent study, diabetes prevalence was 16.1% in Native Hawaiians, 15.8% in Latinos, 15% in African-Americans, 10.2% in Japanese-Americans, and 6.3% in whites.

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Before deciding whether to use aspirin to prevent heart attacks or strokes, patients and clinicians should consider risk factors, including age and gender. Researchers recommend against using aspirin to prevent heart disease in men under 45, and to prevent strokes in women under age 55 because these problems are less likely to occur in these age groups.Who should use aspirin to prevent stroke and

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It's time to abolish patent and copyright law, say two economists at Washington University in St. Louis. They believe the current system discourages innovation and prevents inventions from entering the marketplace.Professors Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine have published their views in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, from Cambridge University Press.The authors argue that license

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A detailed genetic study of the Australian gecko genus reveals many more species of Australian lizards than previously thought, increasing the recognized number of gecko species, from 13 species to 29. This raises new questions about conservation and management of Australia's native reptiles."One of the major problems for biodiversity," says Paul Oliver, a PhD student at the University of

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Leatherback turtles, the most widely distributed reptiles on Earth, are threatened with extinction due to the carelessness of humans.These lovable sea-faring turtles are descendants of one of the oldest family trees in history, spanning 100 million years. Whatever caused the extinction of the dinosaurs couldn't kill them off.So what's threatening to doom the Leatherback now? Dr. Mike James, a

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Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer who have a minimal risk of cancer progression or metastases must answer an important question: when to actively treat versus when to observe and closely monitor. A new study recommends that some men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer can safely opt out of treatment, if they are closely monitored.Because radiation therapy and surgery can be associated

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On the lighter side of health news, Stephen Colbert brings you a segment he calls Cheating Death..cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color

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Twitter is one of the most intriguing social networking/new media phenomena to catch on in the past year. Users create a profile and post “micro-blogs” [tweets] limited to 140 characters. The general premise is to answer the question “what are you doing?” But users have taken it much further, turning Twitter into a place for making friends, sharing ideas, driving traffic to interesting content

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With the economy in a state of decline, it is difficult for many Americans to afford health care. Visits to doctors are down 10 percent to 15 percent and many individuals are not taking their medicines as prescribed. However, there are certain measures that can be taken to lessen the burden while facing tough economic times.While many individuals are dealing with cutbacks, it is important that

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A network of emotion-regulating brain regions implicated in the pathological worry that can grip patients with anxiety disorders may also be useful for predicting the benefits of treatment.A new study appearing online Jan. 2 reports that high levels of brain activity in an emotional center called the amygdala reflect patients' hypersensitivity to anticipation of adverse events. At the same time,

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Calcium builds strong bones, good teeth - and healthy plants, according to a new study from Washington State University.Experiments show that calcium, when bound to a protein called calmodulin, prompts plants to make salicylic acid (SA) when threatened by infection or other danger. SA is a close chemical relative of aspirin. In plants, SA acts as a signal molecule that kicks off a series of

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Women choosing repeat cesarean deliveries and having them at term but before completing 39 weeks gestation are up to two times more likely to have a baby with serious complications including respiratory distress resulting in mechanical ventilation and NICU admission.UAB researchers, led by Alan T.N. Tita, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Division

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While some emerging technologies can create environments that require very little physical effort, one Kansas State University researcher thinks games like Nintendo's Wii Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary activities for people of all ages."I think there is a great potential to develop ways to promote physical activity through technology," said David Dzewaltowski, professor and

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A single tumor-suppressing gene is a key to understanding, and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment only to reawaken years later.The expression of a gene called ARHI acts as a switch for autophagy, or self-cannibalization, in ovarian cancer cells. Often a mechanism for cancer cell death, in this case "self-eating" acts as a survival mechanism for

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Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble found only two brown dwarfs as companions to normal stars. This means the so-called "brown dwarf desert" (the absence of brown dwarfs around solar-type stars) extends to the smallest stars in the

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This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. It offers a nearby laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment

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The combination of estrogen plus progestin, which women stopped taking in droves following the news that it may increase their risk of breast cancer, may decrease their risk of colorectal cancer."Compared to women who had never taken these hormones, the use of estrogen plus progestin was associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer," said Jill R. Johnson, M.P.H., a doctoral student at the

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Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) yields better short-term results than carotid artery stenting (CAS) in patients with carotid artery disease, according to a 30-day outcomes report from the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Registry for Carotid Procedures, published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery®, by the Society for Vascular Surgery.Carotid artery disease is

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Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain's ability to modulate these changes and prevent damage to itself, according to a new study published by The American Physiological Society. The findings may help explain why people with sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die in their sleep.Sleep

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A variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions, and now there is a way to use coconut husks in automotive interiors.The technology uses coconut fiber as a replacement for synthetic polyester fibers in compression molded composites. Specifically, the goal is to use the coconut fibers to make trunk liners, floorboards and interior door covers on cars,

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It's cold and flu season, which means misery for kids and the parents trying to help them. But doctors are asking parents to resist the urge to give children under the age of 6 over-the-counter cough and cold medication.Such drugs can have serious side effects on the smallest of children, the Food and Drug Administration warns. Side effects include hives, drowsiness, difficulty breathing and even

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Workplace programs that encourage employees to set exercise goals pay off, finds a new study that looked at physical activity levels of Home Depot employees who participated in the "Move to Improve" program. The program increased the proportion of employees who regularly participated in either moderate or vigorous physical activity from about 30 percent at the start of the study to about 50

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Researchers have discovered a key protein that plays two important roles in the the development of cancer.  It was long known that the protein Mre11 functioned as a "gatekeeper" to signal injury to the cell and prevent damaged cells from proliferating.  But know researchers have observed that the Mre11 protein also serves as a "caretaker," and can repair damaged DNA."Most proteins involved in

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Economists use leading indicators - the drivers of economic performance - ­ to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of the environment to presage the potential collapse of ecosystems. The study suggests it may be possible to use nature's leading indicators to avert

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Components of black raspberries have been found to potentially have a chemopreventive effect on cancer cells. The substance, a class of compound known as flavonoids, inhibited growth and stimulated apoptosis in the esophagus of rats treated with an esophageal carcinogen. Apoptosis can best be described as the self-cannabalization of a cell."Our data provide strong evidence that anthocyanins are

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a growing technology providing an increasing number of clinical benefits when used in the evaluation of back pain according to an article in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. It is predicted that over the next several years, additional technical developments will allow MRI to provide even more useful

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UCLA scientists have used innovative brain-scan technology developed at UCLA, along with patient-specific information on Alzheimer's disease risk, to help diagnose brain aging, often before symptoms appear. Published in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, their study may offer a more accurate method for tracking brain aging. Researchers used positron emission tomography (PET),

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A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. It might represent an entirely new class of stellar phenomena that has previously gone undetected in the universe, say researchers.Astronomers commonly observe intense flashes of light from a variety of stellar

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Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas. These arrowheads, or bow shocks, form when the stars' powerful stellar winds, streams of

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January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center shares important information about the cervical cancer screening exam, the Pap test.For many women, their annual Pap test is not something to look forward to; however, this test has the potential to make a huge difference in the lives of women everywhere. The Pap test detects cell changes, which

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This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the first malaria drug to contain artemisinin, a wormwood derivative from China that has proven effective for malaria in Africa and Asia. Although there are only about 1,500 reported cases of malaria treated in this country each year, this approval would also make the drug available to the military and to Americans planning

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Southerners die from stroke more than in any other U.S. region, but exactly why that happens is unknown. A new report by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Vermont underscores that geographic and racial differences are not the sole reasons behind the South's higher stroke death rate. The data is from UAB's Reasons for Geographic and Racial

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Thousands of patients undergo total hip replacement surgery each year in order to help alleviate pain associated with debilitating hip disease and other related hip problems, but there is limited information regarding why many of those hip replacements fail. So researchers analyzed data from about fifty thousand patients who had to have their hip replacements revised. Based on new diagnosis and

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Newswise — Modern humans left Africa over 60,000 years ago in a migration that many believe was responsible for nearly all of the human population that exist outside Africa today.Now, researchers have revealed that men and women weren’t equal partners in that exodus. By tracing variations in the X chromosome and in the non-sex chromosomes, the researchers found evidence that men probably

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Newly discovered receptors in the nose of a common insect unearths one of the most ancient mechanisms that organisms have evolved to smell. Ionotropic glutamate receptors, proteins that reside deep in the brain at the synapses, grab glutamate molecules and quickly relay messages from one nerve cell to the next, helping animals learn, move and remember. But insects do not relegate these receptors

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Newswise — When Lamont Christian returned from war, he often felt angry, afraid and unworthy. Years later, Christian found himself living in a homeless shelter, a sign that time had not healed his emotional wounds. He went to the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System for help, and there, he learned the root of his problems: he was suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anger

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>An innovative researcher followed a hunch and encouraged activity in an important cellular tumor-suppressor by grabbing it by the tail. Inside human cancer cells, the important tumor-suppressing protein often seems to play hooky, lolling around in cellular broth instead of muscling its way out to the cells' membranes, where it can prevent cancer growth. This delinquency puzzled scientists for a

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Newswise — Group exercise programs, treadmill training and horseback riding can be healthy choices for children with developmental disabilities. With these kinds of activities, children with disorders such as autism, mental retardation and cerebral palsy can improve their coordination and aerobic fitness. The findings are encouraging, since studies show that children with developmental

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An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide. Within 24 hours of exposure to the naturally occurring compound, 76 percent of leukemia cells had died. The grape seed extract that led to cell death, or apoptosis, by activating JNK, a protein that regulates the apoptotic pathway. "These results could have implications for the incorporation of agents such as

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Newswise — The use of cholesterol-lowering statins before cardiac surgery decreases the odds of postoperative delirium in elderly patients. Previous studies have demonstrated that statins decrease the incidence of morbidity and mortality after cardiac and major non-cardiac surgery. Statins have also been shown to be protective in central nervous system injury. But this new study could be the

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Newswise — For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research finds that novelty-seekers face an uphill battle in keeping their New Year's resolutions due to the way their brains process dopamine. Novelty-seekers have less of a particular type of dopamine

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