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Green Detergents Clean Up As Environmentally Friendly Consumer Products
Science Daily — "Green" laundry detergents have taken the leading role in a new effort by retailers and industry to market mainstream, environmentally friendly consumer products, according to an article scheduled for the Jan. 29 issue of ACS' weekly newsmagazine, Chemical & Engineering News.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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Study: TV Ads Overstate Benefits of Medication
by Patricia Neighmond
Morning Edition, January 30, 2007 ·
The amount of money drug companies spend on TV ads has doubled in recent years. Studies show they work: Consumers go to their doctor with a suggestion for a certain prescription drug they saw advertised on TV. Now a study in the Annals of Family Medicine raises questions about the message the ads promote.
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Study: TV Ads Overstate Benefits of Medication
by Patricia Neighmond
Morning Edition, January 30, 2007 ·
The amount of money drug companies spend on TV ads has doubled in recent years. Studies show they work: Consumers go to their doctor with a suggestion for a certain prescription drug they saw advertised on TV. Now a study in the Annals of Family Medicine raises questions about the message the ads promote.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
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Research finds drug to help insomniacs
By The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/28/2007 10:57:04 PM MST
Washington - Researchers studying narcolepsy - a disease that causes people to suddenly drop off to sleep - are trying to turn what they have learned into a new way to help insomniacs get some shut-eye.
They found that blocking brain receptors for orexin, a blood peptide, promoted sleep in rats, dogs and people, according to a paper in Sunday's online issue of Nature Medicine.
Orexin, also known as hypocretin, is important in maintaining wakefulness. It is absent in the brains of people who suffer from narcolepsy, a chronic disorder in which people cannot regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. It is estimated to affect more than 135,000 people in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The research team, led by Francois Jenck of the Swiss drug company Actelion Pharmaceuticals, reasoned that they might be able to induce sleep if they could block orexin.
They developed a drug that can block the receptors in the brain that respond to orexin- hypocretin. The researchers reported successful testing in rodents, dogs and men.
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Research finds drug to help insomniacs
By The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/28/2007 10:57:04 PM MST
Washington - Researchers studying narcolepsy - a disease that causes people to suddenly drop off to sleep - are trying to turn what they have learned into a new way to help insomniacs get some shut-eye.
They found that blocking brain receptors for orexin, a blood peptide, promoted sleep in rats, dogs and people, according to a paper in Sunday's online issue of Nature Medicine.
Orexin, also known as hypocretin, is important in maintaining wakefulness. It is absent in the brains of people who suffer from narcolepsy, a chronic disorder in which people cannot regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. It is estimated to affect more than 135,000 people in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The research team, led by Francois Jenck of the Swiss drug company Actelion Pharmaceuticals, reasoned that they might be able to induce sleep if they could block orexin.
They developed a drug that can block the receptors in the brain that respond to orexin- hypocretin. The researchers reported successful testing in rodents, dogs and men.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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Study says brain damage may stub out urge to smoke
Finding could point to development of new cessation aids
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/25/2007 11:36:00 PM MST
Washington - A longtime smoker, code-named Nathan, simply forgot his two-pack-a-day addiction after a stroke. He had no cravings, no desire to quit. "My body forgot the urge to smoke," he told his doctor nonchalantly. His comment inspired research that suggests damage to a silver-dollar-size spot deep in the brain can wipe out the urge to smoke. The discovery may shed important new light on addiction. The finding points scientists toward new ways to develop anti-smoking aids by targeting this little-known brain region called the insula.
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Study says brain damage may stub out urge to smoke
Finding could point to development of new cessation aids
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/25/2007 11:36:00 PM MST
Washington - A longtime smoker, code-named Nathan, simply forgot his two-pack-a-day addiction after a stroke. He had no cravings, no desire to quit. "My body forgot the urge to smoke," he told his doctor nonchalantly. His comment inspired research that suggests damage to a silver-dollar-size spot deep in the brain can wipe out the urge to smoke. The discovery may shed important new light on addiction. The finding points scientists toward new ways to develop anti-smoking aids by targeting this little-known brain region called the insula.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
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Call it dense, but new chip loaded with data
By Kenneth Chang The New York Times
Article Last Updated: 01/25/2007 01:54:25 AM MST
Scientists have built a memory chip that is roughly the size of a white blood cell: about one-2,000th of an inch on a side. Although the chip is modest in capacity - with 160,000 bits of information - the bits are crammed together so tightly that it is the densest ever made. The achievement points to a possible path toward continuing the exponential growth of computing power even after current silicon chipmaking technology hits fundamental limits in 10 to 20 years.
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Call it dense, but new chip loaded with data
By Kenneth Chang The New York Times
Article Last Updated: 01/25/2007 01:54:25 AM MST
Scientists have built a memory chip that is roughly the size of a white blood cell: about one-2,000th of an inch on a side. Although the chip is modest in capacity - with 160,000 bits of information - the bits are crammed together so tightly that it is the densest ever made. The achievement points to a possible path toward continuing the exponential growth of computing power even after current silicon chipmaking technology hits fundamental limits in 10 to 20 years.
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Uterine fibroids may not require invasive surgery
A study suggests women would spend less time in the hospital, but it doesn't address threats to fertility.
By Alicia Chang The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/24/2007 07:41:02 PM MST
Women who had less invasive treatment for painful uterine fibroids did about as well as those who had surgery, including a hysterectomy, according to a new study that lays out the options for a troubling condition affecting millions of women. Uterine fibroids are common among women of child-bearing age. Nearly 40 percent develop these noncancerous growths in the uterus that often don't cause any symptoms. While the most common treatment is surgery to remove tumors that cause extreme pain, some women choose a gentler procedure called uterine artery embolization.
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Uterine fibroids may not require invasive surgery
A study suggests women would spend less time in the hospital, but it doesn't address threats to fertility.
By Alicia Chang The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/24/2007 07:41:02 PM MST
Women who had less invasive treatment for painful uterine fibroids did about as well as those who had surgery, including a hysterectomy, according to a new study that lays out the options for a troubling condition affecting millions of women. Uterine fibroids are common among women of child-bearing age. Nearly 40 percent develop these noncancerous growths in the uterus that often don't cause any symptoms. While the most common treatment is surgery to remove tumors that cause extreme pain, some women choose a gentler procedure called uterine artery embolization.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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Ancient reptiles may have begun biplane-type flight
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/22/2007 08:05:17 PM MST
Washington - When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation. Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity. And the design is no longer seen in birds, although it's not clear whether it was a step on the way to modern birds or a dead end in nature and discarded. The intriguing possibility of a biplane dinosaur - Microraptor gui - is suggested by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University.
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Ancient reptiles may have begun biplane-type flight
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/22/2007 08:05:17 PM MST
Washington - When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation. Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity. And the design is no longer seen in birds, although it's not clear whether it was a step on the way to modern birds or a dead end in nature and discarded. The intriguing possibility of a biplane dinosaur - Microraptor gui - is suggested by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
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Drug curbs muscular dystrophy in mice
Researchers say a common blood-pressure medicine reduced muscle damage
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/21/2007 11:04:10 PM MST
Washington - A widely used blood-pressure drug reduced muscle damage in mice with the most common form of muscular dystrophy, researchers report. A team at Johns Hopkins University found the drug losartan seemed to improve muscle regeneration in mice with a rare condition known as Marfan syndrome and in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy - the most common form in children. "The results are very intriguing and certainly worthy of further investigation," said Dr. Valerie Cwik, medical director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Drug curbs muscular dystrophy in mice
Researchers say a common blood-pressure medicine reduced muscle damage
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/21/2007 11:04:10 PM MST
Washington - A widely used blood-pressure drug reduced muscle damage in mice with the most common form of muscular dystrophy, researchers report. A team at Johns Hopkins University found the drug losartan seemed to improve muscle regeneration in mice with a rare condition known as Marfan syndrome and in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy - the most common form in children. "The results are very intriguing and certainly worthy of further investigation," said Dr. Valerie Cwik, medical director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Daydreaming is brain's default setting
POSTED: 9:18 p.m. EST, January 19, 2007 CNN.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Daydreaming seems to be the default setting of the human mind and certain brain regions are devoted to it, U.S. researchers reported Friday. When people are given a specific task to do, they focus on that task but then other brain regions get busy during down time. "There is this network of regions that always seems to be active when you don't give people something to do," psychologist Malia Mason of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital said in a telephone interview.
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Daydreaming is brain's default setting
POSTED: 9:18 p.m. EST, January 19, 2007 CNN.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Daydreaming seems to be the default setting of the human mind and certain brain regions are devoted to it, U.S. researchers reported Friday. When people are given a specific task to do, they focus on that task but then other brain regions get busy during down time. "There is this network of regions that always seems to be active when you don't give people something to do," psychologist Malia Mason of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital said in a telephone interview.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
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Test success: China downs own satellite
By Marc Kaufman and Dafna Linzer The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 01/19/2007 12:03:14 AM MST
Washington - The Chinese military used a ground-based missile to destroy one of its aging satellites orbiting more than 500 miles in space last week - a high-stakes test demonstrating China's ability to target regions of space that are home to U.S. spy satellites and space-based missile defense systems. The test of anti-satellite technology is believed to be the first of its kind in two decades by any nation and raised concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. satellites and a possible arms race in space.
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Test success: China downs own satellite
By Marc Kaufman and Dafna Linzer The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 01/19/2007 12:03:14 AM MST
Washington - The Chinese military used a ground-based missile to destroy one of its aging satellites orbiting more than 500 miles in space last week - a high-stakes test demonstrating China's ability to target regions of space that are home to U.S. spy satellites and space-based missile defense systems. The test of anti-satellite technology is believed to be the first of its kind in two decades by any nation and raised concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. satellites and a possible arms race in space.
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