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NIDDK publishes a strategic plan for research into benign prostate disease
For the first time, a strategic plan for research into benign prostate disease, based on the latest scientific knowledge, has been published by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The NIDDK Prostate Research Strategic Plan is the culmination of discussions and meetings among experts over the past two years in an effort to outline a strategic vision for research.
Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years
HIV patients taking a cocktail of drugs called combination antiretroviral therapy have seen a 13-year boost in life expectancy, according to a new study. Improved survival has led to a nearly 40 percent drop in AIDS deaths among 43,355 HIV-positive study participants in Europe and North America, bolstering the call for improved anti-HIV efforts worldwide, the study authors said.
Colonial heritage metaphors used in US military conflicts
In the latest issue of American Anthropologist, Stephen W. Silliman explores the reinterpretation of "Indian Country" in the 21st-century US and the application of this metaphor to the armed conflicts in Iraq and the Middle East.
Confidence a key to recent economic initiatives, U. of I. expert says
Restoring confidence in the sputtering US economy is at the heart of recent moves to shore up the nation's lagging financial and housing markets, a University of Illinois economist says.
Limits on futures trading could boost gas prices, expert says
Proposals to reign in wallet-draining gasoline prices by curbing speculation in oil markets would likely increase costs at the pump instead of trimming them, a University of Illinois economist says.
New study spotlights National Institutes of Health grant outcomes for clinica...
Although the need to translate basic science discoveries into the clinical arena is widely acknowledged, a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, and National Institutes of Health identified reasons why clinical science grant applications receive less positive peer reviews than basic science grant applications to the NIH. The findings were published in the July issue of the American Journal of Medicine.
Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "plate."
Women's access to credit affects efficiency in rural households
Rural households in which women are not able to meet their needs for capital do not produce as much as they could.
Antimicrobial sutures reduce infections in brain shunt surgery, study finds
A new trial conducted by faculty at the University at Buffalo has shown that using antimicrobial sutures to secure the shunt and close the wound significantly reduces the number of shunt infections arising during the first six months after surgery.
ASGE issues guidelines on the role of endoscopy in the bariatric surgery patient
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has issued guidelines on the role of endoscopy in the bariatric surgery patient. The guidelines discuss endoscopy in the preoperative patient and the postoperative patient, and appear in the July issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the ASGE.
Wealth does not dictate concern for the environment
Citizens of poorer nations are just as concerned about environmental quality as their counterparts in rich nations.
Overweight elderly Americans contribute to financial burdens of the US health...
The extra Medicare cost associated with overweight elderly people could place a significant burden on taxpayers.
An Ikerbasque researcher disentangles the strange behavior of qubits
The study shows that certain quantum jumps are prohibited between the two levels of a qubit superconductor. The research, led by Enrique Solano, is published in Nature Physics.
'Green' potato health risk can be eliminated by cutting away affected area
Green in potatoes may be a sign that the potato may potentially contain a naturally occurring toxin, Glycoalkaloid but health risks can be reduced by cutting away the affected part which is enough to eliminate most of the GAs according to a review in the latest issue of SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
COROT's new find orbits Sun-like star
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50,000 stars and is adding significantly to our knowledge of the fundamental workings of stars.

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Scientists learn what makes Northern Lights flare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The multicolored aurora borealis and aurora australis -- the Northern Lights and Southern Lights -- represent some of Earth's most dazzling natural displays.