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Adolescents' dieting and disordered eating behaviors continue into young adulthood

Adolescents who diet and develop disordered eating behaviors (unhealthy and extreme weight control behaviors and binge eating) carry these unhealthy practices…

Life & Chemistry

Lithium profoundly prevents brain damage associated with Parkinson's disease

Lithium profoundly prevents the aggregation of toxic proteins and cell loss associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) in a mouse model of the condition. Preclinical research is now underway at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging to determine correct dosages for a drug that continues to be the gold standard for the treatment of bipolar disorder. The Buck is currently working toward initiating a Phase IIa clinical studies of lithium in humans in conjunction with standard PD drug therapy. The research appears in the June 24 online edition of the Journal of Neuroscience Research….

Health & Medicine

Parental Stress Linked to Increased Lung Damage in Children

The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.”This…

Health & Medicine

Rotavirus vaccine greatly reduced gastroenteritis hospitalizations in children

From 2006 to 2009, researchers examined the impact of the vaccine among children hospitalized for diarrhea and/or vomiting in the Cincinnati, Ohio; Nashville,…

Studies and Analyses

Menthol cigarettes marketed in 'predatory' pattern, Stanford study shows

Although cigarette makers have denied using race or ethnicity to target customers, the lead researcher for the study said the data shows a “predatory”…

Power and Electrical Engineering

World’s First Aircraft With Serial Hybrid Electric Drive

The two-seater motor glider DA36 E-Star is presented by Siemens, Diamond Aircraft and EADS at the Paris Air Show Le Bourget 2011 (until June 26th) in daily…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Underwater Turbine Innovates Tidal Energy Generation

The company has recently secured a stake in SeaGen, the world's first commercial power plant to generate electricity from tidal energy. Commissioned in 2008,…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Refine Climate Tipping Element Assessments

According to a study now published in Climatic Change, experts can not rule out that ice masses in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica have already begun to…

Technology Offerings

LICE-ERASER – Head-lice remover by plasma comb

The LICE-ERASER kills the head-lice and their nits reliably. For the use, the LICE-ERASER has to be moved through the hair like a hair-brush. The LICE-ERASER…

Technology Offerings

New Acoustical Surgery Suction System Reduces Hemolysis Risk

Studies have shown that postoperative acute renal failures are caused by free hemoglobin due to mechanical damages of red blood cells (Hemolysis).

This…

Automotive Engineering

Carnegie Mellon’s Methods Enhance Software Safety for Self-Driving Cars

Driver assistance technologies, such as adaptive cruise control and automatic braking, promise to someday ease traffic on crowded routes and prevent accidents….

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough in the search for new treatments for MS

Dr Bruno Gran, a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Clinical Neurology in the School of Clinical Sciences, working in collaboration with Professor…

Physics & Astronomy

Galaxies: Discovering Their Sleep and Awake States

Scientists have known for several years that galaxies in the nearby universe seem to fall into one of these two states. But a new survey of the distant…

Earth Sciences

How Early Training Shaped the Human Brain 80,000 Years Ago

The technology took a long time to acquire, required step by step planning and increased social interaction across the generations. This led to the human brain…

Power and Electrical Engineering

German Wind Energy Industry’s Quality Offensive Explained

The expansion of wind energy is an important political and commercial aspect of Germany’s strategy for the future. For this reason the establishment of a…

Studies and Analyses

City Dwellers’ CO2 Emissions Match Countryside Residents

By using more complex methods of analysis than in the past, scientists at Aalto University in Finland have discovered that people's carbon emissions are…

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