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Many Americans breathing cleaner air, report suggests

(HealthDay)—Although many Americans are now breathing cleaner air, others are living in cities that are more polluted than they were a decade ago, a new report shows.

Health created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Team deploys hundreds of tiny untethered surgical tools in first animal biopsies

(Medical Xpress)—By using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, Johns Hopkins engineers and physicians say they have devised a new way to perform biopsies that could provide a ...

Medical research created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Long-term exposure to fine particles of traffic pollution increases risk of heart disease

The association between road traffic and heart disease has been suggested in several studies. In 2012 a large prospective cohort study from Denmark showed that traffic noise was significantly associated with risk of heart ...

Health created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery points to new approach to fight dengue virus

Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and the findings represent a new approach for designing vaccines against the aggressive ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough cancer-killing treatment has no side-effects, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently ...

Cancer created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Transmission routes of spreading protein particles

In diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's endogenous proteins accumulate in the brain, eventually leading to the death of nerve cells. These deposits, which consist of abnormally formed proteins, are supposed to migrate ...

Neuroscience created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Masks galore: Japanese ward off pollen, pollution

(AP)—On the sidewalks and the subways it's clear: Japan is becoming a sea of surgical masks. It's about pollen, about germs and even a little about China, its polluting rival across the sea.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Harnessing immune cells' adaptability to design an effective HIV vaccine

In infected individuals, HIV mutates rapidly to escape recognition by immune cells. This process of continuous evolution is the main obstacle to natural immunity and the development of an effective vaccine. A new study published ...

Immunology created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Cruise ship virus' also sickens one million US kids yearly

(HealthDay)—Norovirus, the infamous stomach bug that's sickened countless cruise ship passengers, also wreaks havoc on land.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study provides new clues to how flu virus spreads

People may more likely be exposed to the flu through airborne virus than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The study also found that when ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Studies find that toxicity caused by second-hand smoke remains long after a smoker leaves the premises

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers are finding that, long after a smoker leaves the premises, the toxicity caused by second-hand smoke remains and transforms into something even more deadly.

Health created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Higher indoor humidity inactivates flu virus particles

Higher humidity levels indoors can significantly reduce the infectivity of influenza virus particles released by coughing, according to research published February 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by John Noti and co ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smog causes surge in heart deaths: study

Exposure to higher levels of fine particulates—the airborne pollution that is an emerging problem in many Asian cities—causes a sharp rise in deaths from heart attacks, a study published on Wednesday ...

Health created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased deaths after heart attacks

Air pollution contributes to an increased number of deaths among patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart attacks, according to a study published online today (Wednesday) in the European Heart Journal.

Cardiology created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Want to get rid of that old tattoo? You're not alone

(HealthDay)—It seems that tattoos are everywhere these days, but along with the increase in people getting inked, the number of Americans undergoing procedures to have a tattoo removed is also on the rise, ...

Health created Feb 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1