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A Possible Answer For Protection Against Chemical / Biological Agents, Fuel Leaks, And Coffee Stains
Date: Feb-05-2013A recent discovery funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) may very well lead to a process that not only benefits every uniformed service member of the Department of Defense, but everyone else as well: protection from Chemical/Biological agents, to self-cleaning apparel, to effortless thermal management, to fuel purification as well as enhanced control of leaks - especially oil and fuels. In 2006, AFOSR Program Manager Dr...
Active Duty Military Personnel Prone To Sleep Disorders And Short Sleep Duration
Date: Feb-05-2013A new study found a high prevalence of sleep disorders and a startlingly high rate of short sleep duration among active duty military personnel. The study suggests the need for a cultural change toward appropriate sleep practices throughout the military...
Experimental Therapy Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier To Treat Neurological Disease�
Date: Feb-04-2013Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological lysosomal storage disease in mice. Posted online in PNAS Early Edition on Feb. 4, the study was led by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center...
Tuberculosis Vaccine Fails To Protect Babies
Date: Feb-04-2013The newest tuberculosis (TB) vaccine choice, that had previously shown success in increasing levels of immune response in adults, has now demonstrated that it does not have this effect in babies. The authors of this study, which was published in The Lancet, suggest that the findings are 'disappointing' and imply a critical roadblock in furthering the study of tuberculosis...
Cuba - Investing In Biotechnology To Battle Cancer
Date: Feb-04-2013The Cuban government has made a substantial investment in biotechnology in a drive to battle cancer, the country's second leading cause of death, after cardiovascular disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 31,000 new cancer diagnoses are made in Cuba each year, and that 21,000 patients die of the disease annually. Dr José Luis Di Fabio, the head of the WHO Country Office in Cuba, said: "Cancer is one of the major killers in Cuba. This is partly because people live longer but also because many have adopted unhealthy lifestyles...
Pathways To Retirement: A Career Stage Analysis Of Retirement Age Expectations
Date: Feb-04-2013Even as the labor force ages and a large number of baby boomers are entering their sixties, retirement experts are not sure they can predict when these older workers will exit the workforce. Yet, if organizations want to capitalize on their workforce investments and prevent skill shortages in the long run, they must adequately manage the retirement process, not just of older workers but also of workers at mid-career...
Childhood Epilepsy In UK Fallen Sharply
Date: Feb-04-2013The past decade in the UK has seen a sharp fall in the number of children diagnosed with epilepsy, reflecting a trend seen in other countries, according to a study published recently in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood. Senior author Ruth Gilbert, a professor in the MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Institute of Child Health, at University College London, says in a BBC report of the study: "We're getting better at diagnosing and deciding who should be treated and then there is also probably an effect of factors like fewer cases of meningitis...
"Fearless" Patients Terrified By Panic Experiment
Date: Feb-04-2013A new study describes how "fearless" patients with damage to the brain's amygdala or "fear centre" experienced terrifying panic in a suffocation experiment, suggesting other brain circuits that do not involve the amygdala can also produce a fear response in reaction to potential threats. Justin Feinstein, of the Departments of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Iowa in the US, and colleagues, write about their findings in the 3 February online issue of Nature Neuroscience...
Differences In Tissue Stiffness Have Potential To Aid In Diagnosis, Therapy Of Breast Cancer
Date: Feb-04-2013The texture of breast cancer tissue differs from that of healthy tissue. Using a cutting-edge tissue diagnostic device, a group of researchers in Basel, Switzerland, has determined one key difference: cancerous tissue is a mix of stiff and soft zones, whereas healthy tissue has uniform stiffness. This new finding may one day help improve breast cancer diagnosis and therapy by providing a unique nanomechanical signature of tumor tissue properties that indicates the potential for the cancer to spread...
New Approach To Psychosis Treatment Could Target Multiple Nervous System Receptors
Date: Feb-04-2013Antipsychotic drugs, used in the treatment of psychotic disorders involving severe delusions and hallucinations, have been studied for more than 70 years. Currently available antipsychotic drugs, however, only alleviate certain symptoms, with results that vary greatly from patient to patient and frequently cause significant side effects. A new understanding of how the brain's G-protein receptors work may soon enable a way to better customize and target antipsychotic drugs to treat specific symptoms...
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