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Lyme Disease Cases More Than Double Since 1991
Reported cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled since 1991, when Lyme became a nationally notifiable disease, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report also said 93 percent of reported cases were concentrated in 10 states. Exploring the Japanese American Internment Through Film &the Internet
This website "utilizes a rich collection of video clips as a starting point for examining the many aspects and implications of the Japanese American internment."Essays and video clips explore topics related to World War II and prewar discrimination, experiences in the internment camps, and the postwar period and impact of the internment camps today. Produced by the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA). Human Beta-cell Line Offers Hope For Type 1 Diabetes Breakthrough
Scientists at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, with international colleagues, succeed in creating reversibly immortalized human beta-cells, with eye toward establishing universal cells for treatment of type 1 diabetes. Workplace Depression Screening And Enhanced Treatment Improves Product
Enhanced and systematic efforts to identify and treat depression in the workplace significantly improves employee health and productivity, likely leading to lower costs overall for the employer, according to a new study. Previous studies have shown that employees who are depressed are less productive and are absent more often. Other studies have shown that organized screening and enhanced depression treatment can significantly improve health. However, few employers have implemented such programs, in part because their return on investment is unclear. Vote: Best Games of 2006
Gears of War? Zelda? Make sure we consider your favorite for our end-of-year video game awards. The votes are rolling in, so nominate the one that stands above the rest in your world. In Game|Life. Nanofabrication Method Paves Way For New Optical Devices
An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties. These include optical nanomaterials called "plasmonic metamaterials."The new fabrication technique, known as soft lithography, offers many significant advantages over existing techniques, including the ability to scale-up the manufacturing process to produce devices in large quantities. Breakthrough In Nanodevice Synthesis Revolutionizes Biological Sensors
A novel approach to synthesizing nanowires (NWs) allows their direct integration with microelectronic systems for the first time, as well as their ability to act as highly sensitive biomolecule detectors that could revolutionize biological diagnostic applications, according to a report in Nature. Not only can the NWs detect as few as 1000 individual molecules in a cubic millimeter, they can do it without any added fluorescent or radioactive probes. Fantastic Voyage Into The Heart Delivers A Protector Against Heart Fai
Reminiscent of the 1966 sci-fi thriller Fantastic Voyage, where a surgical team is miniaturized and injected into a dying man, researchers from Harvard Medical School have used injectable self-assembling peptide nanofibers loaded with the pro-survival factor PDGF-BB to protect rat cardiomyocytes from injury and subsequent heart failure. Their study appears online on December 15 in advance of print publication in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Strategies For Closing The 'Performance Gap' In Science And Mathematic
A new report from AAAS, the world's largest general science society, explains how ten K-12 school districts, serving some of the nation's poorest inner-city regions, are improving performance and closing the gap between minority and non-minority students in science and mathematics. MySpace Gives Death Row a Voice
A Texas official tries to get the social-networking site to ban inmates, saying they're shamelessly "airing their thoughts and grievances for the world to see." In 27B Stroke 6.
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