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• Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts, Report Says

  
  The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed — Authority: 146
  A new report finds that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a poor job of screening medical experts for financial conflicts when it hired them to advise the agency on vaccine safety, officials said Thursday. Most of the experts who served on advisory panels in 2007 to evaluate vaccines for flu and ...
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• Prince William nearly run over as he slept on London street

  
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  London, Dec 23 (IANS) Britain’s Prince William was nearly run over by a road sweeper vehicle when he spent the night sleeping rough in minus four degrees celsius for a charity in London this week.William, 27 and the second line to the British throne, curled up inside a sleeping bag on cardboard boxes next [...]
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• Scientia Pro Publica #18: the last of the oughties edition!

  
  Reconciliation Ecology — Authority: 125
  Well, this carnival doesnt really have much to do with the impending end of the oughties decade, but since everybody seems to be going on about it, compiling decadal reviews and best-of lists, I...
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• Common painkiller may ease pain of social rejection

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A common painkiller can serve double duty, easing not just the physical pains of sore joints and headaches, but also the pain of social rejection, according to a new research.Scientists have uncovered evidence indicating that acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol) may blunt social ...
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• How to improve mammogram accuracy in detecting breast cancer

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): Using an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) could improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, which are used in medical clinics to detect signs of breast cancer, according to a Syracuse University research team.The study distinctly ...
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• Protein that could treat aggressive brain tumour identified

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A protein, called TRPC6, could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumours in adults, according to biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the type of malignant brain tumour that killed the late U.S. Sen. ...
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• Switching off hunger hormone may help curb urge to drink

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A new study has shown that switching off the hormone that influences the desire to eat can also help control the urge to drink.According to Jerlhag et al. at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, hormone ghrelin, typically released by the stomach and known to promote appetite and therefore ...
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• How to turn a person into a walking solar battery charger

  
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  Washington, December 23 (ANI): Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in the US have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger.The tiny cells could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened to flexible substrates ...
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• Bacteria causes much more lethal infections than earlier thought

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A new Swedish research has found that staphylococcus aureus causes much more serious infections than previously believed.The finding has been reported in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Author Gunnar Jacobsson said: “The infection can be hard to ...
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• New, improved anti-fungal compounds developed

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): Scientists from Syracuse University have created new brominated furanones that may help to check deadly fungal infections.The drugs may also be effective against the most dangerous fungus Candida albicans, which is found in 75percent of the people.Assistant professor Dacheng Ren of the ...
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• Top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of 2009

  
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  Washington, December 23 (ANI): An article in the National Geographic News has listed the top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of the year 2009.At number 10 is a study that found the fossils of largest trilobites ever discovered, which date back to 465 million years. The fossils show that swarms of up to a [...]
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• Scientists working to develop model of HIV/AIDS care for developing nations

  
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  Washington, December 23 (ANI): A team of scientists from Michigan State University (MSU) is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to developing nations, where resources are limited.The team, led by Reza Nassiri, the director of MSU’s Institute of International ...
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• Plants can respond to the past

  
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  Washington, December 23 (ANI): In a new research, scientists at the University of Michigan, US, have found that plants can respond to the past.Emily Farrer, Deborah Goldberg, and Aaron King modeled four years of population fluctuations in four species common to the Michigan dry sand prairie to determine how plants ...
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• Planets may assemble around stars more quickly than anyone thought possible

  
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  Washington, December 23 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has said that two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible.The researchers were from the Torun Center for Astronomy, Poland and the Center ...
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• How smallpox kills

  
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  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have explained how variola, monkeypox, and related viruses disable immune systems to yield devastating consequences.Working in a high containment laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, the team of researchers solved a ...
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• Some people really do feel the pain of others

  
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  London, Dec 23 (ANI): About one in three people actually feel physical discomfort when they see someone else in agony, scientists have claimed.The finding, by Dr Stuart Derbyshire, a psychologist at the University of Birmingham, may help explain why some people are more empathetic to other people’s misery.To reach ...
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• Wild chimps in Senegal have near human understanding of fire

  
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  Washington, December 23 (ANI): A new study has found that savanna chimpanzees in Senegal have a near human understanding of wildfires and change their behavior in anticipation of the fire’s movement.Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz and Thomas LaDuke, an associate professor of biological sciences at ...
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• Woman who threatened to “blow away” Michelle Obama arrested

  
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  London, Dec 23 (ANI): A 35-year-old woman has been arrested for threatening to kill Michelle Obama during the Obama family’s Christmas holiday in Hawaii.Kristy Lee Roshia is said to have called the Boston office of the Secret Service last month, saying “I will kill Michelle Obama” and “I will kill Marines”, ...
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• High-blood-pressure treatment ‘too aggressive’ for people over 80

  
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  London, Dec 23 (ANI): An expert has cautioned that high blood pressure treatment for people over 80 years is too aggressive.Dr James Wright has said that the latest evidence suggests that less aggressive drug therapy may be more effective at reducing mortality in this age group. Based on this evidence, he suggests ...
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• 85-year-olds will increase by a third by 2020: UK study

  
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  London, Dec 23 (ANI): The population of people over 85 years of age in Britain would increase by one third by 2020, says a new study.The study suggested that health and social care provision needs to be put in place for a large increase-33 percent-in the 85 year old population in the UK by 2020. [...]
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