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'Twinkle After Effect'Can Help Retinal Patients Detect Vision Loss Qui
Scientists have discovered a simple and inexpensive way for patients with retinal and other eye disease to keep track of changes in their vision loss. They demonstrate that a compelling visual illusion known as the induced twinkle after-effect can accurately identify the location and breadth of actual blind spots in people with retinal disease. Chemotherapy Errors Rare, But Have Potential For Serious Consequences
About one out of 30 chemotherapy orders at three ambulatory infusion clinics had errors, and one in 50 orders had a serious error, according to a new study. The study, performed at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, found most but not all errors were detected before they reached the patient. None was life-threatening or caused patient harm. Still, an accompanying editorial says the study underscores the need to implement safer controls of drug ordering and dispensing at chemotherapy infusion clinics. Calcium May Protect Women From Cancer
A University of Minnesota Cancer Center study found that women consuming more than 800 milligrams of calcium each day reduced their risk of colorectal cancer by as much as 26 to 46 percent. A 26 percent reduction in risk of colorectal cancer occurred regardless of whether the calcium intake was from diet or supplement. The growing problemof biopiracy
Say you had spent twenty-odd years grubbing around in the soils on a tropical island hunting for microbial fungi that produce a whole bunch of antibiotic compounds or maybe you spotted a herbalist working with a rare plant of amazing medicinal power. The commercial side of your brain immediately spots an opportunity and the fundamental scientist in you recognises a beautiful discovery...do you turn bio-pirate? Manganese Can Keep Toxic Hydrogen Sulfide Zones In Check In Aquatic Sy
Manganese, in trace amounts, is essential to human health. Now a research team from the University of Delaware, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Hawaii and Oregon Health and Science University has discovered that a dissolved form of the mineral also is important in waterways such as the Black Sea and Chesapeake Bay, where it can keep toxic hydrogen sulfide zones in check. Less Than One-third Of Women Aware Of Landmark Hormone Therapy Study,
Despite the huge publicity generated by a 2002 study on the potential dangers of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women, new research found that only 29 percent of women surveyed knew about the study two years later. Additionally, the women were able to correctly identify the possible benefits and risks linked to hormone therapy just 40 percent of the time. Changes In Clinical Progression To AIDS In Patients On HAART Therapy
Although clinical progression to AIDS of patients infected with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has declined since the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), there is little data on the changes in incidence of AIDS-defining events during the first few years of therapy. A new study following 12,574 individuals over the course of three years of HAART and tracking the incidence and type of these AIDS-defining events appears in the February 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Fuel Savings Is a Gas
Direct natural-gas injection boosts fuel economy for CNG and diesel vehicles. Plus:What's the best way to take MP3s on the road? From the Wired News blog Autopia. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Selection Of Successful Sperms Influenced By Female Grey Mouse Lemurs
In grey mouse lemurs from the dry deciduous forests in western Madagascar each female is receptive to mating for a single night per year. For male mouse lemurs this is a stressful time. What happens during this special night? Up to fourteen males visit a single female and females copulate with up to seven different males at maximum. But who will become father? The selection of successful sperms must be influenced by internal body mechanisms of the female after copulation.
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