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MERS outbreaks grow; Malaysian case had camel link

Apr 18, 2014 | Health, Life & Non-humans

Outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections expanded further today with reports of seven more cases in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and three in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that...

HIV+ women respond well to HPV vaccine

Apr 16, 2014 | Health

HIV-positive women respond well to a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), even when their immune system is struggling, according to newly published results of an international clinical trial. The study’s findings counter doubts about whether the vaccine...

New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

Mar 24, 2014 | Health

Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have estimated that around 1 million children contract tuberculosis (TB) annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the...

Children’s preferences for sweeter and saltier tastes are linked to each other

Mar 18, 2014 | Brain & Behavior

Scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that children who most prefer high levels of sweet tastes also most prefer high levels of salt taste and that, in general, children prefer sweeter and saltier tastes than do adults. These preferences relate...

Blood test IDs those at-risk for cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s within 3 years

Mar 9, 2014 | Brain & Behavior

Researchers have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease within three years. Described in Nature Medicine published online...

Scientists demonstrate first contagious airborne WiFi virus

Feb 25, 2014 | Technology

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have shown for the first time that WiFi networks can be infected with a virus that can move through densely populated areas as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans. The team designed and simulated an attack...

Study examines consumption of added sugar, death for cardiovascular disease

Feb 3, 2014 | Health

Many U.S. adults consume more added sugar (added in processing or preparing of foods, not naturally occurring as in fruits and fruit juices) than expert panels recommend for a healthy diet, and consumption of added sugar was associated with increased risk for death...

China’s second H7N9 wave tops spring wave

Jan 31, 2014 | Health, Life & Non-humans

Pushing the number of cases in the second H7N9 influenza wave higher than the first, China reported six more cases today, as well as two more deaths, one of which involved a previously confirmed case. As reported in a CIDRAP news release, today’s new cases lift the...

New dengue detection kit gets put through the paces

Jan 9, 2014 | Health

Scientists have found that a commercially available, FDA-approved dengue detection kit bests the former “gold standard” test by producing results in under five hours. A study conducted at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine sought to...

New compounds in grilled meat, exhaust are hundreds of times more mutagenic

Jan 6, 2014 | Health

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions – such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat – that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent compounds which are...

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