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Little Benefit From Antipsychotics In Alzheimer's, Study Suggests
Alzheimer's patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs for delusions, agitation or aggression do no better than those who take a placebo. University of Wisconsin Center For Cooperatives
This research center "strives to study, promote and research cooperative action as a means of meeting the economic and social needs of people."The center's website contains bulletins on worker cooperatives and types of cooperatives (such as forestry and dairy), case studies for specific co-ops, and links to other publications on topics related to cooperative businesses. Gene Therapy Reverses Genetic Mutation Responsible For Heart Failure I
University of Pittsburgh investigators have for the first time used gene therapy to successfully treat heart failure and other degenerative muscle problems in an animal model that is genetically susceptible to a human muscular dystrophy. Reporting in the Oct. 25 edition of the journal Circulation, the authors say that this is the first successful attempt to deliver a therapeutic gene throughout the body. Carbon Nanotube Functions Like Atom-scale Switch
ORNL researchers performing basic research have discovered a carbon nanotube-based system that functions like an atom-scale switch. Their approach is to perform first-principles calculations on positioning a molecule inside a carbon nanotube to affect the electronic current flowing across it. Gallery: Sex Research Devices
The equipment used to study orgasms is as scary and sterile as the events themselves are pleasurable. By Randy Dotinga. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Maternal Flu Linked To Schizophrenia, Autism In Child
An unexpected link connecting schizophrenia and autism to the importance of covering your mouth whenever you sneeze has been discovered. It has been known for some time that schizophrenia is more common among people born in the winter and spring months, as well as in people born following influenza epidemics. Recent studies suggest that if a woman suffers even one respiratory infection during her second trimester, her offspring's risk of schizophrenia rises by three to seven times. [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. Yale Scientists Identify Structure For RNA Quality Control
A report by Yale scientists in the journal Cell sheds new light on how the protein Ro, a major autoantigen in patients with autoimmune disease, recognizes misfolded RNAs, creating a RNA quality control system for cells. Exercise Improves Cardiopulmonary Fitness In Asthma
Although exercise can trigger asthma attacks in some people, a new review of studies has found that exercise improved cardiopulmonary fitness in people with asthma.
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