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News | Archive (November 2010)
Perceived bad boys receive less pain medications
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthIf you should find yourself running from the police, watch your step. If you fall and break an ankle, chances are you'll receive less pain medication when they take you to the ER for treatment…
Teenage girls face greater violence threat from poverty
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthLiving in a deprived area increases the risk of violence more sharply for girls than boys, according to a Cardiff University study of former industrial areas…
Broadening the base of publicly funded health care
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthHealth care costs and expenditures are expected to rise over the next decade or two and governments need methods to publicly finance these costs, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)…
Severe asthma more prevalent than thought, related to pronounced nasal symptoms
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthPeople with multi-symptom asthma more often have night-time awakenings due to asthma-symptoms, a sign of severe asthma. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Respiratory Research have shown that asthma with multiple symptoms is more highly prevalent than previously suggested, comprising 20- 25% of all asthmatics…
New genomic technique reveals obesity gene variants
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthObesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, in a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, researchers have identified DNA variants in two nervous system genes that are associated with an excessively high BMI…
Crucial sex hormones re-routed by missing molecule
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthA hormone responsible for the onset of puberty can end up stuck in the wrong part of the body if the nerve pathways responsible for its transport to the brain fail to develop properly, according to research funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)…
Researchers demystify glasses by studying crystals
— 30 Nov 2010 | ChemistryGlass is something we all know about. It's what we sip our drinks from, what we look out of to see what the weather is like before going outside and it is the backbone to our high speed communications infrastructure (optical fibres)…
Mystery dissolves with calcium pump discovery
— 30 Nov 2010 | BiologyGeo-microbiologists from Arizona State University have solved a long-standing conundrum about how some photosynthetic microorganisms, endolithic cyanobacteria, bore their way into limestone, sand grains, mussel shells, coral skeletons and other substrates composed of carbonate…
New approach may help dialysis patients fight anaemia
— 30 Nov 2010 | HealthA new drug called FG-2216 can stimulate production of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) in dialysis patients - possibly offering a new approach to treatment of kidney disease-related anaemia, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN)…
Study assesses nuclear power assumptions
— 30 Nov 2010 | TechnologyA broad review of current research on nuclear power economics has been published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. The report concludes that nuclear power will continue to be a viable power source but that the current fuel cycle is not sustainable. Due to uncertainty about waste management, any projection of future costs must be built on basic assumptions that are not grounded in real data…
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