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Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine Medicine & Health May 29, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s) \| No comments yet As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus and the ...

Lying Is Exposed By Micro-Expressions We Can't Control Medicine & Health May 08, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) \| No comments yet When trying to lie your way through any situation, keep a tight rein on your zygo maticus major and your orbicularis oculi. They'll give you away faster than a snitch. So says social psychologist Mark Frank, ...

Research: How should countries best respond to a flu pandemic? Medicine & Health April 27, 2006 \| User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) \| No comments yet The letter published today in Nature shows how the team from Imperial College London, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and RTI International used computer modelling to predict how a variety ...

Memory trick shows brain organization Medicine & Health / Psychology 4 hours ago \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s) \| No comments yet A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories. The finding expands our understanding of how those brain areas that form ...

How accurate is your memory? Medicine & Health / Psychology 4 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- As a child did you hate brussel sprouts? Do you remember such a preference or did your parents remind you afterwards, ensuring a lasting dislike of the vegetable? Or do you have a phobia in adult life, ...

Two-egg diet cracks cholesterol issue Medicine & Health / Health 5 hours ago \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Research published in The European Journal of Nutrition this week has finally cracked the myths surrounding eggs and cholesterol. The new study showed that people who ate two eggs per day, while on ...

Rapid changes in key Alzheimer's protein described in humans Medicine & Health / Research 7 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet For the first time, researchers have described hour-by-hour changes in the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that is believed to play a key role in Alzheimer's disease, in the human brain. A collaborative team of scientists ...

Researchers provide solution to world's worst mass poisoning case Medicine & Health / Other 9 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet A solution to the world's worst case of ongoing mass poisoning, linked to rising cancer rates in Southern Asia, has been developed by researchers from Queen's University Belfast.

Tiny 3-D ultrasound probe guides catheter procedures Medicine & Health / Research 10 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet An ultrasound probe small enough to ride along at the tip of a catheter can provide physicians with clearer real-time images of soft tissue without the risks associated with conventional x-ray catheter guidance.

Variation of normal protein could be key to resistance to common cancer drug Medicine & Health / Cancer 10 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UC SD) in La Jolla have found evidence explaining why a common chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, may not always work for every cancer patient. ...

First gene associated with dry macular degeneration found Medicine & Health / Genetics August 27, 2008 \| User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet In a study that underscores the important role that individual genetic profiles will play in the development of new therapies for disease, a multi-institutional research team – led by Kang Zhang, MD, PhD professor of ophthalmology ...

Sandwich meats kill 15 in Canada Medicine & Health / Diseases August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 The death toll from contaminated deli meats in Canada has risen to 15, health officials said Wednesday, including an elderly woman who is said to have suffered terribly.

Even without dementia, mental skills decline years before death Medicine & Health / Health August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 A new study shows that older people's mental skills start declining years before death, even if they don't have dementia. The study is published in the August 27, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal ...

Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug Medicine & Health / Other August 27, 2008 \| User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet (AP) -- What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? ...

Sleight of hand and sense of self Medicine & Health / Research August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 5 / 5 after 22 vote(s) \| User comments: 4 (PhysOrg.com) -- An illusion that tricks people into believing a rubber hand belongs to them isn’t all in the mind, Oxford University researchers have found. They have observed a physical response as well, ...

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Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine Medicine & Health May 29, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s) \| No comments yet As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus and the ...

Lying Is Exposed By Micro-Expressions We Can't Control Medicine & Health May 08, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) \| No comments yet When trying to lie your way through any situation, keep a tight rein on your zygo maticus major and your orbicularis oculi. They'll give you away faster than a snitch. So says social psychologist Mark Frank, ...

Research: How should countries best respond to a flu pandemic? Medicine & Health April 27, 2006 \| User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) \| No comments yet The letter published today in Nature shows how the team from Imperial College London, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and RTI International used computer modelling to predict how a variety ...

Memory trick shows brain organization Medicine & Health / Psychology 4 hours ago \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s) \| No comments yet A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories. The finding expands our understanding of how those brain areas that form ...

How accurate is your memory? Medicine & Health / Psychology 4 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- As a child did you hate brussel sprouts? Do you remember such a preference or did your parents remind you afterwards, ensuring a lasting dislike of the vegetable? Or do you have a phobia in adult life, ...

Two-egg diet cracks cholesterol issue Medicine & Health / Health 5 hours ago \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s) \| No comments yet (PhysOrg.com) -- Research published in The European Journal of Nutrition this week has finally cracked the myths surrounding eggs and cholesterol. The new study showed that people who ate two eggs per day, while on ...

Rapid changes in key Alzheimer's protein described in humans Medicine & Health / Research 7 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet For the first time, researchers have described hour-by-hour changes in the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that is believed to play a key role in Alzheimer's disease, in the human brain. A collaborative team of scientists ...

Researchers provide solution to world's worst mass poisoning case Medicine & Health / Other 9 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet A solution to the world's worst case of ongoing mass poisoning, linked to rising cancer rates in Southern Asia, has been developed by researchers from Queen's University Belfast.

Tiny 3-D ultrasound probe guides catheter procedures Medicine & Health / Research 10 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet An ultrasound probe small enough to ride along at the tip of a catheter can provide physicians with clearer real-time images of soft tissue without the risks associated with conventional x-ray catheter guidance.

Variation of normal protein could be key to resistance to common cancer drug Medicine & Health / Cancer 10 hours ago \| User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UC SD) in La Jolla have found evidence explaining why a common chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, may not always work for every cancer patient. ...

First gene associated with dry macular degeneration found Medicine & Health / Genetics August 27, 2008 \| User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet In a study that underscores the important role that individual genetic profiles will play in the development of new therapies for disease, a multi-institutional research team – led by Kang Zhang, MD, PhD professor of ophthalmology ...

Sandwich meats kill 15 in Canada Medicine & Health / Diseases August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 The death toll from contaminated deli meats in Canada has risen to 15, health officials said Wednesday, including an elderly woman who is said to have suffered terribly.

Even without dementia, mental skills decline years before death Medicine & Health / Health August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 A new study shows that older people's mental skills start declining years before death, even if they don't have dementia. The study is published in the August 27, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal ...

Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug Medicine & Health / Other August 27, 2008 \| User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) \| No comments yet (AP) -- What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? ...

Sleight of hand and sense of self Medicine & Health / Research August 27, 2008 \| User rating: 5 / 5 after 22 vote(s) \| User comments: 4 (PhysOrg.com) -- An illusion that tricks people into believing a rubber hand belongs to them isn’t all in the mind, Oxford University researchers have found. They have observed a physical response as well, ...

Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine

Lying Is Exposed By Micro-Expressions We Can't Control

Research: How should countries best respond to a flu pandemic?

Memory trick shows brain organization

How accurate is your memory?

Two-egg diet cracks cholesterol issue

Rapid changes in key Alzheimer's protein described in humans

Researchers provide solution to world's worst mass poisoning case

Tiny 3-D ultrasound probe guides catheter procedures

Variation of normal protein could be key to resistance to common cancer drug

First gene associated with dry macular degeneration found

Sandwich meats kill 15 in Canada

Even without dementia, mental skills decline years before death

Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug

Sleight of hand and sense of self

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