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Biomechanics and injury risk of a headbutt. - Adamec J, Mai V, Graw M, Schneider K, Hempel JM, Schöpfer J.
Headbutt is a relevant type of a criminal assault that can result in injuries. The aim of this study was to collect basic biomechanical data and assess the injury risk associated with a headbutt. Series of measurements were carried out with volunteers with...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 26, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Ballistic Fractures: Indirect Fracture to Bone. - Dougherty PJ, Sherman D, Dau N, Bir C.
BACKGROUND:: Two mechanisms of injury, the temporary cavity and the sonic wave, have been proposed to produce indirect fractures as a projectile passes nearby in tissue. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the temporal relationship of pressure waves u...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 26, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Analysis and evaluation of acute injuries in musical performers. - W.e EM, Groneberg DA, Quarcoo D.
INTRODUCTION: Specific requirements in the Musical field such as the versatility of abilities in dancing, singing and acting, the aspiration for perfection as well as the high number of performances, lead to a high amount of occupational accidents not yet ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 26, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Birdbooker Report 189 | @GrrlScientist | Punctuated Equilibrium
Books, books, beautiful books! This is a list of science and evolution books, natural history books and bird field guides that are (or will soon be) available to occupy your bookshelves (or your library's bookshelves) and your thoughtsBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of many popular children's books. Compiled by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, the Birdbooker Report is a weekly report listing the wide variety of nature, natural history, ecology, animal behaviour, science and hist...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 25, 2011 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Science Science and nature Books Birds Wildlife guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

The individualisation of a dog bite mark: a case study highlighting the bite mark analysis, with emphasis on differences between dog and human bite marks. - Bernitz H, Bernitz Z, Steenkamp G, Blumenthal R, Stols G.
A person who keeps or controls a dog in his own interest is liable "without fault" should that dog cause harm to any person. By owning a dog, man welcomes into his home a beast that preserves much of its primordial self, and is capable of inflicting a fata...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 22, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Shining New Light on the Hawthorne Illumination Experiments - Izawa MR, French MD, Hedge A.
This study provides an historical and statistical analysis of archival data from the Hawthorne illumination experiments.Background: Previous accounts of the illumination experiments are fraught with inconsistencies because they have been based o...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 22, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Increased IL‐1β reactivity upon a glucose challenge in patients with deliberate self‐harm - Westling S, Ahren B, Träskman‐Bendz L, Brundin L.
Objective: A disturbed glucose metabolism has been observed in patients with aggressive behaviour. Interleukin (IL)‐1β is a pro‐inflammatory cytokine that can induce hypoglycaemia, but has also been suggested to be involved in the generation...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 22, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Females have a greater incidence of stress fractures than males in both military and athletic populations: a systemic review. - Wentz L, Liu PY, Haymes E, Ilich JZ.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to review incidence of stress fractures in military and athlete populations and identify factors explaining causes and differences in the incidence among genders. METHODS: Searches were conducted using several major...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 22, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Awards End Duchenne Grant to University of Pennsylvania's... -- HACKENSACK, N.J., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --www.prnewswire.com
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Awards End Duchenne Grant to University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Tejvir S. Khurana 0 0 0 ...
Source: Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy - September 22, 2011 Category: Neurology Authors: (author unknown) Source Type: news

What Are Neuropeptides?
We know neuropeptides now for over 40 years as chemical signals in the brain. The discovery of neuropeptides is founded on groundbreaking research in physiology, endocrinology, and biochemistry during the last century and has been built on three seminal notions: (1) peptide hormones are chemical signals in the endocrine system; (2) neurosecretion of peptides is a general principle in the nervous system; and (3) the nervous system is responsive to peptide signals. These historical lines have contributed to how neuropeptides can be defined today: “Neuropeptides are small proteinaceous substances produced and released b...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Neuroscience - September 20, 2011 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news

Plant MiRNAs Could Make Their Way Into The Host Blood And Tissues Via Food
We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make their way into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they can elicit functions by regulating host "target" genes and thus regulate host physiology. MicroRNAs are a class of 19-24 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that do not code for proteins. MicroRNAs bind to target messenger RNAs to inhibit protein translation...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 20, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

The Assessment of Awareness of Ability (A3) in a Japanese context: A Rasch model application. - Asaba E, Petersson I, Bontje P, Kottorp A.
The overall aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of the Assessment of Awareness of Ability (A3) in a Japanese context. The A3 (formerly known as the Assessment of Awareness of Disability, AAD) is a standardized 11-question interview used to explo...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Susceptibility-weighted imaging findings of subacute delayed carbon monoxide intoxication: A report of five cases. - Bae JW, Cha SY, Kang TH, Lee JH, Kim HJ, Jung DS, Kim EJ.
Brain injury from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning occurs due to tissue hypoxia and direct CO-mediated histotoxicity. Recently developed susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is sensitive for the detection of accumulated hemosiderin and iron secondary to cer...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Suicide deaths of active-duty US military and omega-3 fatty-acid status: A case-control comparison. - Lewis MD, Hibbeln JR, Johnson JE, Lin YH, Hyun DY, Loewke JD.
BACKGROUND: The recent escalation of US military suicide deaths to record numbers has been a sentinel for impaired force efficacy and has accelerated the search for reversible risk factors. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether deficiencies of neuroactive, highl...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Relationship of soccer heading to computerized neurocognitive performance and symptoms among female and male youth soccer players. - Kontos AP, Dolese A, Elbin RJ, Covassin T, Warren BL.
Primary objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between soccer heading and computerized neurocognitive performance and symptoms in female and male youth soccer players. Research design: Cross-sectional and prospective desig...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Peroneal Reaction Time and Ankle Sprain Risk in Healthy Adults: A Critically Appraised Topic. - Hoch MC, McKeon PO.
Ankle sprains are one of the most common injuries identified in athletics, the military, and hospital emergency rooms. A significant number of patients report injury recurrence, residual symptoms, ankle instability, and functional loss associated with a si...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Morphological study of the palatal rugae in western Indian population. - Gondivkar SM, Patel S, Gadbail AR, Gaikwad RN, Chole R, Parikh RV.
The aim of this study was to identify and compare the different morphological rugae patterns in males and females of western Indian population, which may be an additional method of identification in cases of crimes or aircraft accidents. A total of 108 pla...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Lower extremity biomechanics during kendo strike-thrust motion in healthy kendo athletes. - Koshida S, Matsuda T, Kawada K.
AIM: The aim of this study was to demonstrate the kinematics and kinetics of the lower extremity during the kendo strike-thrust motion in experienced kendo athletes. METHODS: Fifteen experienced kendo athletes (age 20.4±1.2 years; height 171.5±4 cm; weig...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Limits of recovery against slip-induced falls while walking. - Yang F, Bhatt T, Pai YC.
Slip-induced falls in gait often have devastating consequences. The purposes of this study were 1) to select the determinants that can best discriminate the outcomes (recoveries or falls) of an unannounced slip induced in gait (and to find their correspond...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Kinetic Analysis of Ski Turns Based on Measured Ground Reaction Forces. - Vaverka F, Vodickova S, Elfmark M.
The object of this study was to devise a method of kinetic analysis of the ground reaction force that enables the durations and magnitudes of forces acting during the individual phases of ski turns to be described exactly. The method is based on a theoreti...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Incremental grouping of image elements in vision. - Roelfsema PR, Houtkamp R.
One important task for the visual system is to group image elements that belong to an object and to segregate them from other objects and the background. We here present an incremental grouping theory (IGT) that addresses the role of object-based attention...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Female hormone influences on sexual assaults in Northern Ireland from 2002 to 2009. - Beirne P, Hall J, Grills C, Moore T.
This study considered the possibility that women may be more likely to be victims of sexual assault during the fer...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Electrophysiological evidence for abnormal error monitoring in recurrent major depressive disorder - Georgiadi E, Liotti M, Nixon NL, Liddle PF.
Previous neuroimaging work has identified anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) abnormalities in recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD), implicating a persistent underlying predisposition to depression. Error‐monitoring studies in MDD, as indexed by erro...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Carbon monoxide poisoning is prevented by the energy costs of conformational changes in gas-binding haemproteins. - Antonyuk SV, Rustage N, Petersen CA, Arnst JL, Heyes DJ, Sharma R, Berry NG, Scrutton NS, Eady RR, Andrew CR, Hasnain SS.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a product of haem metabolism and organisms must evolve strategies to prevent endogenous CO poisoning of haemoproteins. We show that energy costs associated with conformational changes play a key role in preventing irreversible CO bi...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Biological mechanisms involved in the spread of traumatic brain damage. - Rovegno M, Soto PA, Sáez JC, von Bernhardi R.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a worldwide health problem that is especially prevalent in young adults. It is characterized by one or more primary injury foci, with secondary spread to initially not compromised areas via cascades of inflammatory response,...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 19, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Baruj Benacerraf obituary
Immunologist and geneticist who shared the Nobel prizeBaruj Benacerraf, who has died aged 90, won the Nobel prize for his contribution to identifying the gene groups, called major histocompatibility complexes, that determine a person's susceptibility to certain diseases, as well as their capacity to mount an immune response and their compatibility for organ transplants. He shared the 1980 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology with two other immunologists whose work complemented his: together, their research has underpinned major advances in close compatibility between donor and recipient.The first steps were taken by one ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Richmond Tags: Immunology Venezuela Medical research Medicine Nobel prizes Genetics People in science France New York Judaism United States The Guardian Obituaries Source Type: news

How High Is Yours?
My new Wellness Center will still provide the services of natural hormone therapy, anti-aging and natural approaches to healing as it always has. But with 17,000 square feet of space, we’ll have the room to expand our research and technology and provide more cutting-edge services in prevention, wellness, anti-aging, nutrition and exercise physiology. I am building an entire lab dedicated to researching exercise physiology that will enable us to further test my P.A.C.E program. In fact, we’ll be taking P.A.C.E. testing to another level. We’ll put patients on my new POWER Fit program that includes a low-glycemic eat...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 16, 2011 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Fitness Age Quotient FEV1 low-glycemic food low-glycemic index PACE POWER Fit Source Type: news

DMC Is First In Detroit Area To Begin Patient Enrollment For Obstructive Sleep Apnea Clinical Trial
Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has been selected as the first Detroit area hospital to participate in a pivotal clinical study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a new therapy for patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The STAR trial (Stimulation Therapy for Apnea Reduction) will be conducted at leading medical centers across the United States and Europe, and will evaluate the efficacy of Inspire™ Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) therapy, an implantable therapy that works with the body's natural physiology to prevent airway obstruction during sleep...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 16, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Respiratory / Asthma Source Type: news

Toss Your Textbooks: Docs Redefine Sexual Behavior Addictions
America’s top addiction experts have just released a new definition of addiction confirming that sex (and porn) addictions are genuine addictions. Primary Topic: Sex read more
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 15, 2011 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Gary Wilson Tags: Sex addiction experts addiction medicine addiction research addiction science adolescent boys American Psychiatric Association American Society of Addiction Medicine anatomy and physiology ASAM brain anatomy brain circuitry brain f Source Type: news

Controlled Release in Oral Drug Delivery
series:Advances in Delivery Science and TechnologyControlling the rate, extent and time of a drug’s delivery can optimize its performance in many ways, relative to “immediate release” delivery. Such optimized design requires a broad knowledge base of topics such as gastro intestinal tract physiology, polymer science, and the mechanisms by which drugs are released from the formulated units. Technologies to “reduce to practice” also need to be ...
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - September 15, 2011 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Pharmaceutical Sciences / Technology Source Type: news

Eating chocolate is not exercise
Conclusion The main findings of this study are that 15 consecutive days of epicatechin treatment resulted in improved treadmill performance, more capillaries serving the leg muscles and more mitochondria in one-year-old mice. These effects are usually achieved through regular exercise. The following points should be considered when interpreting the results of this study: The study was very small, using just 25 mice. Hence, it represents an initial proof of concept study that epicatechin may be linked to muscular performance. Studies on humans would be necessary to confirm this association in people and assess whether th...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 15, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Food/diet Source Type: news

The effects of 7.5% carbon dioxide inhalation on task performance in healthy volunteers. - Diaper A, Nutt DJ, Munafò MR, White JL, Farmer EW, Bailey JE.
Studies have shown that anxiety can positively or negatively affect performance with respect to focusing of attention or distractibility, subjective workload and effort (Humphreys and Revelle, 1984). The inhalation of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is associated w...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 13, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Athlete: An American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement. - Putukian M, Kreher JB, Coppel DB, Glazer JL, McKeag DB, White RD.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an important issue for the physician taking care of athletes since ADHD is common in the athletic population, and comorbid issues affect athletes of all ages. The health care provider taking care of athlet...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 13, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Anaphylaxis: Assessment of a disease-based military medical standard - Zeindler PR, Gervais A.
Although widespread, the use of disease-based employment medical standards is poorly understood or researched. A probabilistic model and threshold value are developed and applied to a military (Canadian Forces [CF]) medical standard for anaphylaxis. Freque...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 13, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Aeroacoustic sources of motorcycle helmet noise. - Kennedy J, Adetifa O, Carley M, Holt N, Walker I.
The prevalence of noise in the riding of motorcycles has been a source of concern to both riders and researchers in recent times. Detailed flow field information will allow insight into the flow mechanisms responsible for the production of sound within mot...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 13, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

EDUCATION: Breezing Along with the RML -Wed. September 14, 2011 10:00 Mountain Time, 11:00 Central Time
Two topics: 1) “The art of communication is the language of leadership.” This is a quote by James Humes a presidential speech writer. The RML strives to be a leader within the MidContinental Region and in April of this year completed a communication audit to improve the language of our leadership. Join Claire Hamasu for a sharing session on what the NN/LM MCR learned and how we plan to improve our communication with you. We’d like your feedback on our plans. and 2) Join Dana Abbey for an interview with Dr. Kurt Beam, a professor and researcher in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at th...
Source: Midcontinental Region News - September 12, 2011 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Education Source Type: news

Europe and Brazil cooperate to reduce CVD
Against a background of high mortality rates from CVD in Brazil, the ESC is to deliver an educational programme at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. This meeting is the largest cardiology conference in Latin America and will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 16 to 19 September 2011. Read the full press release.Find out more about ESC Glboal activities and the ESC in Brazil. Topics: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management, Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology, Arrhythmias, Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), Atrial Fibril...
Source: European Society of Cardiology - September 12, 2011 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

In Vivo 1H-NMR Microimaging During Seed Imbibition, Germination, and Early Growth
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a superior noninvasive diagnostic tool widely used in clinical medicine, with more than 60 million MRI tests performed each year worldwide. More specialized high-resolution MRI systems capable of a resolution that is 100–1,000 times higher than standard MRI instruments are used primarily in materials science, but are used with increasing frequency in plant physiology. We have shown that high-resolution 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) microimaging can provide a wealth of information about the internal anatomy of plant seeds as small as 1 mm or even smaller. This chapter covers t...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Plant Sciences - September 10, 2011 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Proteomics and Posttranslational Proteomics of Seed Dormancy and Germination
The seed is the dispersal unit of plants and must survive the vagaries of the environment. It is the object of intense genetic and genomic studies because processes related to seed quality affect crop yield and the seed itself provides food for humans and animals. Presently, the general aim of postgenomics analyses is to understand the complex biochemical and molecular processes underlying seed quality, longevity, dormancy, and vigor. Due to advances in functional genomics, the recent past years have seen a tremendous progress in our understanding of several aspects of seed development and germination. Here, we describe th...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Plant Sciences - September 10, 2011 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Production of Seed Samples for the Effective Molecular Analysis of Dormancy Cycling in Arabidopsis
Most often, the samples used for molecular analysis of dormancy are populations of seeds. An essential survival characteristic of seed populations inhabiting the variable surface layers of the soil is that individuals in the population do not behave uniformly. In addition, seed dormancy (SD) status of the whole population constantly changes even in the dry state. For these and other reasons, production of appropriate and adequately characterized seed samples is the key to the correct and most informative interpretation of molecular studies. This is particularly important when the aim is to describe and explain seed behavio...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Plant Sciences - September 10, 2011 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Immunohistochemistry of Human Hsp60 in Health and Disease: From Autoimmunity to Cancer
Hsp60 (also called Cpn60) is a chaperonin with essential functions for cell physiology and survival. Additionally, its involvement in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases (e.g., some autoimmune disorders and cancer) is becoming evident with new research. For example, the distribution and levels of Hsp60 in cells and tissues have been found altered in many pathologic conditions, and the significance of these alterations is being investigated in a number of laboratories. The aim of this ongoing research is to determine the meaning of these Hsp60 alterations with regard to pathogenetic mechanisms, diagnosis, classificatio...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biochemistry - September 10, 2011 Category: Biochemistry Source Type: news

Western Blotting Analysis as a Tool to Study Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are involved in critical aspects of cell physiology ranging from cell survival, proliferation, growth, migration, and differentiation. A tight control of the extent and duration of signals elicited by activated RTKs is crucial for preventing over-stimulation, which can ultimately lead to unrestrained proliferative ability and neoplastic growth. Ligand-induced downregulation of RTKs has emerged as a key negative regulatory mechanism that can accomplish signaling attenuation, by removing activated receptors from the cell surface and committing them to degradation. The ability of RTKs to ...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Genetics/Genomics - September 10, 2011 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news

Pregnancy allergy claims unfounded
Conclusion This study suggests that feeding pigs an omega-3-rich diet during pregnancy can influence intestinal permeability in their offspring after birth. However, despite press coverage suggesting that the study was of importance to pregnant women, it should be noted that it is unclear to what extent the changes seen in these pigs would be representative of what would happen in humans. Also, the study did not explore what, if any, knock-on health effects these changes would have on pigs. Within the research paper the authors themselves acknowledge that they cannot tell whether the changes would be beneficial or harmful ...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 9, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy/child Food/diet Source Type: news

TONIX Advances In Nighttime Fibromyalgia Meds Released
In new research released this week, TONIX Pharmaceuticals has shared news that the very first drug being developed for night time usage in the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome (FM), named cyclobenzaprine (CBP), is working on improving the condition's core symptoms. The analysis focused on the effect of doses administered at bedtime on FM symptoms, including pain, tenderness, fatigue, mood and EEG sleep physiology over eight weeks. The researchers hope to identify parameters that might be useful markers of drug effects. Fibromyalgia is not well understood by the medical community...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 7, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Source Type: news

Researchers publish study on neuronal RNA targeting
(SUNY Downstate Medical Center) SUNY Downstate scientist Ilham Muslimov, MD, PhD, along with senior author Henri Tiedge, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology and of neurology, published a study suggesting that cellular dysregulation associated with certain neurodegenerative disorders may result from molecular competition in neuronal RNA transport pathways. The paper appeared in the Journal of Cell Biology, titled, "Spatial Code Recognition in Neuronal RNA Targeting: Role of RNA-hnRNP A2 Interactions." The article was highlighted in an accompanying editorial, "RNA Targeting Gets Competitive."
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 7, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Birdbooker Report 186 #books
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this is a weekly report about all those wonderful nature, science and history books that are hot-off-the-presses in North America and the UKBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of many popular children's books. Compiled by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, the Birdbooker Report is a weekly report listing the wide variety of nature, natural history, ecology, animal behaviour, science and history books that have been newly released or republished in No...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 4, 2011 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Science guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology
The objective of this volume is to give an overview of the present state of the art of pediatric clinical pharmacology including developmental physiology, pediatric-specific pathology, special tools and methods for development of drugs for children (assessment of efficacy, toxicity, long-term safety etc.) as well as regulatory and ethical knowledge and skills. In the future, structural and ...
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - September 3, 2011 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Pharmacology / Toxicology Source Type: news

The cardiovascular system and diving risk. - Bove AA.
Recreational scuba diving is a sport that requires a certain physical capacity, in addition to consideration of the environmental stresses produced by increased pressure, low temperature and inert gas kinetics in tissues of the body. Factors that may influ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 3, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

The brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene in suicidal behaviour: a meta-analysis. - Zai CC, Manchia M, De Luca V, Tiwari AK, Chowdhury NI, Zai GC, Tong RP, Yilmaz Z, Shaikh SA, Strauss J, Kennedy JL.
Suicide is a prominent public health problem. Its aetiology is complex, and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been implicated. We performed the first meta-analysis of the functional BDNF marker Val66Met (rs6265, 196G>A) in suicidal behaviour...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 3, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Mobility assessment of hip fracture patients during a post-acute rehabilitation program. - Hershkovitz A, Beloosesky Y, Brill S.
Our aim was to describe improvement in mobility level in hip fracture patients during a post-acute rehabilitation program and examine variables that may impede mobility improvement. A retrospective chart review of 138 patients with a proximal hip fracture,...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 3, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news