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Newly Discovered Immune Defense May Be Impaired In Cystic Fibrosis Air
A recent University of Iowa study reveals a new immune defense mechanism in normal airways and may help explain why people with cystic fibrosis are particularly susceptible to bacterial lung infections. The findings also may point the way to new approaches for treating the disease. Male Body Odor Can Stink Like Urine or Have a Pleasant Vanilla Smell,
Why the same sweaty man smells sweet like vanilla to one person and repellent like urine to another comes down to the smeller's genes. Up to one-third of adult humans cannot perceive an odor in a component of male body odor that induces physiological responses in both men and women. To those who do, androstenone either takes on a pleasant sweet odor or a repulsive urine-like one. New research traces this variability to mutations in a single odorant receptor gene, a finding that raises questions of how people detect other people's body odor. Mental Disorders Cause 1.3 Billion Annual Days Of Lost Role Performanc
A general population survey found that in US adults mental disorders result in more than 1.3 billion days each year out of role -- unable to work or carry out usual activities. This number equals roughly half as many days out of role as those associated with all chronic physical conditions combined. Condition-specific estimates show that major depression in particular is among the most impairing of all conditions in terms of total lost days of role performance. Report Issued On Outbreak Of Serious Eye Infection Linked With Use Of
Researchers have additional information concerning the recent outbreak of the corneal infection Fusarium keratitis, which was associated with use of a specific contact lens solution, according to a study in the August 23-30 issue of JAMA. After preliminary findings from this investigation were released in May, the product was withdrawn from the market worldwide. A Real Music Store Sprouts Online
Other Music, a Manhattan institution, will soon start selling high-quality MP3s you might actually want to hear. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk. Upgrade to Vista, Get More DRM
Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites. Still Have To Swab Those Tonsils, Mayo Clinic Study Finds
Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat surgeons hoped to find a more user-friendly test for strep throat than swabbing the tonsils directly, but instead discovered that the swab has to touch the tonsils to accurately detect the infection. Edifice, Complex
Billowing glass. Rippling titanium. Swooping steel. The engineers and designers at Permasteelisa turn the world's most daring buildings into reality. By Karrie Jacobs from Wired magazine. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Pacifiers Reduce Sudden Infant Deaths, New Study Suggests
Use of a pacifier seems to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), finds a study published online by the British Medical Journal. Researchers in California interviewed mothers or carers of 185 infants who died and 312 randomly selected controls matched for race/ethnicity and age.
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