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SRR intervention decreases unintended pregnancies, unprotected sex in adolescent girls

Adolescent girls participating in a sexual risk reduction (SRR) intervention study were more likely to practice abstinence and, if sexually active, showed substantial decreases in unprotected sex, number of partners, and unintended pregnancies, reports a research team led by principal investigator Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, Senior Associate Vice President of USF Health and Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida.

10 Oct 2012

Number, proportion of world's hungry drop but remain too high, U.N. report says

The U.N. "revised down the number of the world's hungry on Tuesday to just under 870 million but slammed the figure as 'unacceptable' and warned that the fight against hunger was slowing down," Agence France-Presse reports.

10 Oct 2012

New screening method may lead to more efficient RNA drug development

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a new method of screening more than three million combinations of interactions between RNA and small molecules to identify the best targets on RNA as well as the most promising potential drug compounds.

10 Oct 2012

Report: Health law will benefit many employers, but mid-size firms would see costs rise

According to an Urban Institute study, the health-coverage costs carried by small businesses will likely fall if the 2010 health law is completely implemented, but companies with 101 - 1,000 employees could experience a jump in their costs.

10 Oct 2012

UNICEF, Syrian government agree to expand humanitarian operations to conflict areas

UNICEF and the Syrian government have agreed to expand humanitarian efforts in the country, where tens of thousands of people have been killed and up to one million people displaced since the beginning of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad 18 months ago, Reuters reports.

10 Oct 2012

U.N. rapporteurs call for creation of global fund as social safety net for vulnerable populations

Two U.N. experts have called for the creation of a "global fund to promote the creation of social safety nets for the most vulnerable people in poor countries," the Guardian reports.

10 Oct 2012

Modifying factors may be responsible for non-diabetic kidney disease in African-Americans

The high rate of non-diabetic kidney disease in African-Americans is strongly associated with variations in a particular gene. Yet, not everyone who inherits these variations develops the disease.

10 Oct 2012

Patient navigation services help vulnerable patients get timely cancer care

Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have shown that patient navigation services help decrease the time to diagnosis for female patients who have received an abnormal result from a breast or cervical cancer screening.

10 Oct 2012

Recovering Treg cells in pancreatic lymph nodes may restore insulin production in type I diabetics

The key to restoring production of insulin in type I diabetic patients, previously known as juvenile diabetes, may be in recovering the population of protective cells known T regulatory cells in the lymph nodes at the "gates" of the pancreas, a new preclinical study published online October 8 in Cellular & Molecular Immunology by researchers in the Department of Bioscience Technologies at Thomas Jefferson University suggests.

10 Oct 2012

Researchers discover mechanism by which magnesium reduces cytokine production

Magnesium sulfate is given to many pregnant women to treat preterm labor and preeclampsia and was recently shown to prevent cerebral palsy; however little is known about how it works. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine recently discovered the mechanism by which magnesium reduces the production of cytokines.

10 Oct 2012

Salivary-biomarker approach can identify individuals at future risk of PTSD, depression

Each year, more than a million Americans are at-risk of developing serious mental health problems after experiencing a terrifying event or serious physical injury. Once manifested, these psychiatric illnesses, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, can be extremely crippling and difficult to treat and are a leading cause of disability in civilian, military and minority populations.

10 Oct 2012

Chronic kidney disease changes the composition of intestinal bacterial microbes

Chronic kidney disease changes the composition of intestinal bacterial microbes that normally play a crucial role in staving off disease-causing pathogens and maintaining micronutrient balance, according to UC Irvine researchers.

10 Oct 2012

Johns Hopkins honors former NHTSA administrator with Community Hero award

Joan Claybrook, President Emeritus of Public Citizen and former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has received the 2012 Community Hero award from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

10 Oct 2012

Mayo researchers discover new therapy for patients with neuromyelitis optica

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a new therapy for patients with neuromyelitis optica that appears to stop inflammation of the eye nerves and spinal cord. NMO is a debilitating central nervous system disorder that is often misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS).

10 Oct 2012

Somali militant group bans U.K. aid organization; Oxfam warns malnutrition in Somalia at 'alarming' level

"Militant Islamist rebels in Somalia on Monday announced a ban against another aid group working in a region of Somalia hit hard by hunger," the Associated Press reports.

10 Oct 2012

ProteoWizard Toolkit interprets multi-platform mass spectrometry data

The world's leading mass spectrometer manufacturers have agreed to license technology that enabled University of Southern California (USC) researchers to develop software that, for the first time, allows scientists to easily use and share research data collected across proprietary platforms.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 10 Oct 2012

Vitamin C actively protects against osteoporosis

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have shown for the first time in an animal model that vitamin C actively protects against osteoporosis, a disease affecting large numbers of elderly women and men in which bones become brittle and can fracture. The findings are published in the October 8 online edition of PLoS ONE.

10 Oct 2012

CRI, MedImmune partner to advance cancer immunotherapy research

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, today announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to advance the research of immunotherapy in cancer.

10 Oct 2012

Study compares gene expression levels in two key hippocampal regions affected by Alzheimer's

Researchers from the Computational Intelligence Group based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática have used machine learning and data mining techniques to compare gene expresssion levels in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients in two key regions of the hippocampus: the dentate gyrus, where the disease appears to have little or no effect, and the entorhinal cortex, where Alzheimer's disease produces major neuronal damage.

10 Oct 2012

IspH protein accepts two completely different classes of molecules as partners

The iron-sulfur protein IspH plays a central role in the terpene metabolism of several pathogens. The mechanism of the reaction provides an approach for developing new antibiotics, particularly against malaria and tuberculosis. While researching this enzyme, biochemists at the Technische Universitat Munchen discovered a previously unknown reaction: IspH accepts two completely different classes of molecules as partners.

10 Oct 2012

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SRR intervention decreases unintended pregnancies, unprotected sex in adolescent girls

Number, proportion of world's hungry drop but remain too high, U.N. report says

New screening method may lead to more efficient RNA drug development

Report: Health law will benefit many employers, but mid-size firms would see costs rise

UNICEF, Syrian government agree to expand humanitarian operations to conflict areas

U.N. rapporteurs call for creation of global fund as social safety net for vulnerable populations

Modifying factors may be responsible for non-diabetic kidney disease in African-Americans

Patient navigation services help vulnerable patients get timely cancer care

Recovering Treg cells in pancreatic lymph nodes may restore insulin production in type I diabetics

Researchers discover mechanism by which magnesium reduces cytokine production

Salivary-biomarker approach can identify individuals at future risk of PTSD, depression

Chronic kidney disease changes the composition of intestinal bacterial microbes

Johns Hopkins honors former NHTSA administrator with Community Hero award

Mayo researchers discover new therapy for patients with neuromyelitis optica

Somali militant group bans U.K. aid organization; Oxfam warns malnutrition in Somalia at 'alarming' level

ProteoWizard Toolkit interprets multi-platform mass spectrometry data

Vitamin C actively protects against osteoporosis

CRI, MedImmune partner to advance cancer immunotherapy research

Study compares gene expression levels in two key hippocampal regions affected by Alzheimer's

IspH protein accepts two completely different classes of molecules as partners

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