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Heat Shock Proteins Prove To Be Vital, Will Be Prime Targets For Drug
University of Oregon researchers have identified protein interactions that regulate the response of cells to steroid hormones. The discovery, they say, could lead to new ways to boost the effectiveness and reduce undesired side effects of steroid-hormone treatments and cancer drugs. Rare Infections After Medically Induced Abortions Likely Not Drug-rela
Since 2000, five women in North America who had medically induced abortions died from toxic shock caused by a Clostridium sordellii infection. This has led some people to question the safety of the combination of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol frequently used in MIA procedures. Daily Sudoku
The object of this puzzle (popular in Japan, and spreading through the UK and the U.S.) is "to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once."The website includes a daily puzzle, a puzzle archive (back to January 2005), a FAQ, a message board, and a daily puzzle for children. From the author of a sudoku puzzle book. Mercury Prevalent In Many Western Fish, Study Finds
A new survey by researchers at Oregon State University and the EPA of more than 600 rivers and streams in the western United States found widespread mercury concentrations in fish. Though few of the more than 2,700 fish analyzed in the study contained alarmingly high levels of mercury, the prevalence of the element throughout 12 western states caught the researchers somewhat by surprise. Climate Change Creates Dramatic Decline In Red-winged Black Bird Popul
Global warming strikes again. A University of Illinois researcher reports that a red-winged black bird population in Ontario, Canada has decreased by 50 percent since 1972. The decrease is related to a positive shift in the North Atlantic Oscillation which has resulted in warmer, wetter winters in the southeastern United States. Prescription Pain Medication Abuse On Surprising Increase, With Unexpe
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center found prescription pain medication (PPM) abuse is a rapidly growing problem with surprising and often unpredictable distribution patterns. Magellanic Clouds Are First-Time Visitors
The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. For hundreds of years, these galaxies were considered satellites of the Milky Way, gravitationally bound to our home galaxy. New research shows that the Magellanic Clouds are recent arrivals on their first visit to the Milky Way's neighborhood. Marburg Virus Identified In A Species Of Fruit Bat
The Marburg virus, like its fearsome cousin Ebola, belongs to the Filoviridae family. It carries the name of the German town where it was first detected in 1967, after a mysterious epidemic had hit employees of the Behring laboratory. The workers had been contaminated as they took organ samples from green monkeys imported from Uganda. Up to the end of the 20th Century, rare cases of violent haemorrhagic fever attack linked to Marburg virus were subsequently registered, essentially in East Africa. However, in 1998, a more extensive epidemic affected 149 people near Durba, a town in the North-East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 80% of these people succumbed to the haemorrhagic fever the virus caused. Special Report: Famine
A collection of articles about the 2005 famine in Niger and in neighboring country Mali. Includes information about humanitarian relief efforts, an eyewitness account, photos, and commentary about what "images of famine tell us about the relationship between the victims and those who picture them."From the Guardian Unlimited, the online companion to the British newspaper The Guardian. Earthquake Activity: Magnitude 9.0, Off the West Coast of Northern Sum
Facts about the Southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004. Provides links to numerous related resources. "This is the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake."From the U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center.
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