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Day-care children learn to respond to hunger cues when allowed to pass bowls family-style
Date: Jan-16-2014When children and child-care providers sit around a table together at mealtime, passing bowls and serving themselves, children learn to recognize when they are full better than they do when food is pre-plated for them, reports a new University of Illinois study of feeding practices of two- to five-year-old children in 118 child-care centers."Family-style meals give kids a chance to learn about things like portion size and food preferences. When foods are pre-plated, children never develop the ability to read their body's hunger cues.
Key proteins identified that are responsible for electrical communication in the heart
Date: Jan-16-2014Findings shed light on the root of healthy heart function and reveal a class of drugs that can prevent erratic heartbeats tied to heart attacks, strokes and other health conditionsCedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found that six proteins - five more than previously thought - are responsible for cell-to-cell communication that regulates the heart and plays a role in limiting the size of heart attacks and strokes.The smallest of these proteins directs the largest in performing its role of coordinating billions of heart cells during each heartbeat.
Overview of research on individuals experiencing higher states of consciousness during transcendental meditation
Date: Jan-16-2014Today, millions of Americans say they practice some form of yoga and/or meditation. It's become a health fad. Yet the goal of these practices seems unknown or elusive to many practitioners - transcendence.An article: Transcendental experiences during meditation practice,* by Fred Travis, PhD, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management, provides an overview of research on individuals experiencing higher states of consciousness. It is published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.The paper is based on a presentation Dr.
Embryonic stem cells maintained in vital, undifferentiated state
Date: Jan-16-2014While the ability of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to become any type of mature cell, from neuron to heart to skin and bone, is indisputably crucial to human development, no less important is the mechanism needed to maintain hESCs in their pluripotent state until such change is required.In a paper published in this week's Online Early Edition of PNAS, researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine identify a key gene receptor and signaling pathway essential to doing just that - maintaining hESCs in an undifferentiated state.
Overview of research on individuals experiencing higher states of consciousness during transcendental meditation
Date: Jan-16-2014Today, millions of Americans say they practice some form of yoga and/or meditation. It's become a health fad. Yet the goal of these practices seems unknown or elusive to many practitioners - transcendence.An article: Transcendental experiences during meditation practice,* by Fred Travis, PhD, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management, provides an overview of research on individuals experiencing higher states of consciousness. It is published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.The paper is based on a presentation Dr.
UK law to stop further sales of booze to drunk customers routinely flouted
Date: Jan-16-2014Bar tenders in clubs and pubs are routinely flouting UK legislation intended to prevent further sales of alcohol to those who are already drunk, reveals a study of purchase patterns in one UK city, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.Preventing sales of alcohol to those who are already very drunk would ease the strain on public services and protect long term health, and should be a public health priority, say the authors.
Improved diagnostic test for coeliac disease
Date: Jan-16-2014A new blood test being developed by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers can rapidly and accurately diagnose coeliac disease without the need for prolonged gluten exposure.Dr Jason Tye-Din, gastroenterologist and head of coeliac research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, said the new diagnostic test gave a result within 24 hours and preliminary findings indicated it could accurately detect coeliac disease. It is hoped that larger studies will verify its role as a widely used tool for diagnosing coeliac disease.
Newly described 3-part protein may help HIV vaccine development
Date: Jan-16-2014Duke scientists have taken aim at what may be an Achilles' heel of the HIV virus.Combining expertise in biochemistry, immunology and advanced computation, researchers at Duke University have determined the structure of a key part of the HIV envelope protein, the gp41 membrane proximal external region (MPER), which previously eluded detailed structural description.The research will help focus HIV vaccine development efforts, which have tried for decades to slow the spread of a virus that currently infects more than 33 million people and has killed 30 million more.
Small RNAs coordinate bacterial attack on epithelial cells
Date: Jan-16-2014Two small RNAs (sRNAs) working in concert enable the deadly enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) 0157:H7 to attach to and initiate infection in epithelial cells that line the digestive tract, according to a study published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
Multiple medication use 'not always hazardous,' say researchers
Date: Jan-16-2014New research finds that patients with a single illness who take multiple drugs - referred to as "polypharmacy" - have a higher risk of hospital admission, compared with polypharmacy patients with multiple health conditions, who have a "near-normal" admission risk. This is according to a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.The study researchers, led by Dr.
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