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Bone marrow transplant patients say two of the most debilitating side effects of the treatment are nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy and radiation.

But a Loyola University Health System study has found the drug aprepitant can dramatically reduce both nausea and vomiting when combined with other anti-nausea drugs.

Madison, WI, March 1, 2010-Hawaii’s strong farming history and its indigenous people’s relationships to ‘aina (the land) and ‘ohana (immediate and extended family) provide the landscape for an experiment in culturally relevant learning.

CHAPEL HILL — A study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that obese children as young as 3 years old have elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that in adults is considered an early warning sign for possible future heart disease.

New York, NY, March 1, 2010 — In a study published in the March 2010 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers determined that regular use of aspirin, acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increases the risk of hearing loss in men, particularly in younger men, below age 60.

BOSTON, Mass. (March 1, 2010) — Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought — perhaps even before birth — especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1,826 women from pregnancy through their children’s first five years of life.

Researchers at Albany Medical College are releasing results of a study this week that they say will help refocus the search for new drug targets aimed at preventing or reversing the devastating tissue inflammation that results after heart attack and stroke.

Researchers at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center have figured out how ATP is broken down in cells, providing for the first time a clear picture of the key reaction that allows cells in all living things to function and flourish.

SALT LAKE CITY, March 1, 2010 — Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly’s silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.

LA JOLLA, CA — The first order of business for any fledgling plant embryo is to determine which end grows the shoot and which end puts down roots. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute expose the turf wars between two groups of antagonistic genetic master switches that set up a plant’s polar axis with a root on one end and a shoot on the other.

Even in sleep , the human body is rarely still–and within it, there is the constant motion of the contents of our cells and the proteins within.

EASING EGG ALLERGIES WITH EGGS

Oral immunotherapy study at Hopkins Children’s shows it works

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Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae which is an emerging zoonotic pathogen causing a wide range of disease manifestations in humans. Most people with CSD have been bitten or scratched by a cat and developed a mild infection at the point of injury. Lymph nodes, especially those around the head, neck, and upper limbs, become swollen.

Just read wiki’s info on infinity, and found it pretty interesting..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity

I was wondering what people think about using logic to define and eventually expand or detract from infinity as either a limit or amount or whatever.

In the article they talk about a hierarchy, which is fine, but its a little too philosophical for what I have in mind.

DURHAM, NC — A novel technology for delivering nicotine to the lungs may soon give smokers a new way to kick the habit.

TEMPE, Arizona–As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws. Why we rose to rule, while our hominin relatives died out, has long been a curiosity for scientists.

Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about sessions they attended–including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art and attitudes about climate change–at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Two stroke-prevention procedures are safe and equally beneficial for men and women at risk for stroke, but the effectiveness does vary by age, say researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in collaboration with other North American stroke investigators.

MAYWOOD, Il. — The CREST trial that compared traditional surgery with less-invasive stenting to clear dangerously clogged carotid arteries in the neck is being called “seminal and robust.”

Thus far, the study of men’s body image has been largely restricted to the dimensions of adiposity and muscularity. Recent research has found that features such as head hair, body hair, height and penis size may be important in one’s evaluation of self, with penis size satisfaction being highly correlated to overall appearance self-esteem.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — African-Americans age 65 and younger are more than twice as likely to have a stroke compared with Caucasians in any region, and people who have a stroke are more likely to die in the South than elsewhere, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health.