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New Frontiers In Breast Cancer Screening
Date: Apr-08-2013Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center predict that advancements in breast cancer screening will need a personalized touch because mammography is not a "one strategy fits all" technology. Their review "Beyond Mammography: New Frontiers in Breast Cancer Screening" appears in The American Journal of Medicine...
Arrhythmia Drug May Increase Cancer Risk
Date: Apr-08-2013One of the most widely used medications to treat arrhythmias may increase the risk of developing cancer, especially in men and people exposed to high amounts of the drug. That is the conclusion of a new retrospective study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results indicate that a potential link between amiodarone and cancer warrants further investigation. Amiodarone was approved in 1985 for the treatment of arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats...
Computer Can "See" Our Dreams
Date: Apr-08-2013fMRI scans can reveal the visual images we have in our brains while we are dreaming, researchers from Japan reported in the journal Science. Put simply, they have found a way of seeing our dreams. Senior author, Yukiyasu Kamitani of Japan's ATR Computational Laboratories in Kyoto, together with colleagues from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology explained that their breakthrough follows recent research advances in decoding the brain signals that interpret what we see while we are awake...
Total Dengue Virus Infections Are Triple Current Estimates Worldwide, Say Experts
Date: Apr-08-2013There are about 390 million people infected with the dengue virus annually worldwide, triple the World Health Organization's estimate, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust reported in the journal Nature. Professor Simon Hay, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford explained that he and his team created the first detailed and up-to-date map of global dengue fever distribution, making it possible for researchers now to accurately estimate how many humans are infected with the virus worldwide, regionally and nationally...
In The Virtual Classroom, Varying Lectures With Tests Improves Attention, Note-Taking, And Retention
Date: Apr-08-2013The number of online educational offerings has exploded in recent years, but their rapid rise has spawned a critical question: Can such "virtual" classes cut through the maze of distractions - such as email, the Internet, and television - that face students sitting at their computers? The solution, Harvard researchers say, is to test students early and often. By interspersing online lectures with short tests, student mind-wandering decreased by half, note-taking tripled, and overall retention of the material improved, according to Daniel Schacter, the William R. Kenan Jr...
UK Parents Who Kill Their Children: Study Findings
Date: Apr-08-2013Experts from The University of Manchester have revealed their findings from the most in-depth study ever to take place in the UK into the tragic instances of child killing by parents, known as filicide. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found 37 per cent of parents and step-parents who killed their children were suffering from some form of mental illness and 12% had been in contact with mental health services within a year of the offence...
HIV Vaccine Development May Be Guided By Antibody Evolution
Date: Apr-08-2013Observing the evolution of a particular type of antibody in an infected HIV-1 patient, a study spearheaded by Duke University, including analysis from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has provided insights that will enable vaccination strategies that mimic the actual antibody development within the body. The kind of antibody studied is called a broadly cross-reactive neutralizing antibody, and details of its generation could provide a blueprint for effective vaccination, according to the study's authors...
Natural Protection Against Lyme borreliosis Found In Wild Mice
Date: Apr-08-2013Springtime spells tick-time. Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne disease in Switzerland: around 10,000 people a year become infected with the pathogen. The actual hosts for Borrelia, however, are wild mice. Like in humans, the pathogen is also transmitted by ticks in mice. Interestingly, not all mice are equally susceptible to the bacterium and individual animals are immune to the pathogen. Scientists from the universities of Zurich and Lund headed by evolutionary biologist Barbara Tschirren reveal that the difference in vulnerability among the animals is genetic in origin...
Online Professional Treatment Would Likely Be Welcomed By Mothers With Postpartum Depression
Date: Apr-08-2013Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Postpartum depression, a moderate to severe depression that can occur after a woman has given birth, affects about 7 to 15 percent of new mothers. The effects can be felt soon after delivery to as long as a year later...
Rodents Recognize Objects Using Sophisticated Perceptive Strategies
Date: Apr-08-2013Sight is such a spontaneous activity that we are unaware of the complexity of the brain mechanisms it implies. For instance, we easily recognize objects, which appear to look always the same, without realizing that we observe them from ever-changing points of view and that their image - the luminance profile cast onto the retina - varies significantly each time we look at them. To maintain such "invariance" in the shape, our brain performs procedures that extract from the two-dimensional image "key" visual information that enables us to recognize the object under any condition...
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