Men with serious injuries, such as traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury, must deal with a range of emotions. If these men have strong traditional masculine ideas and abuse alcohol, it becomes even more difficult to help them heal and come to terms with their emotions and situations. A psychology researcher studied these challenging factors to find better ways to understand and treat men who fit this mold, such as the injured soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although millions of people use Web search engines, researchers completed by show that -- by using relatively simple methods -- most queries submitted can be classified into one of three categories.
Deadly and difficult to treat, liver cancer has long resisted attempts by researchers to develop ways to prolong life and prevent recurrence. But researchers now report that the protein sulfatase 2 (SULF2) may provide one of the keys needed to begin the design of new therapies.
Contrary to the currently accepted model of T-cell development, researchers have found that juvenile cells on their way to becoming mature immune cells can develop into either T-cells or other blood-cell types versus only being committed to the T-cell path.
One of the world's great wildlife spectacles is under way across Australia: as many as two million migratory shorebirds of 36 species are gathering around Broome before an amazing 10,000-kilometer annual flight to their northern hemisphere breeding grounds. But an alarming new study has revealed that both these migrants and Australia's one million resident shorebirds have suffered a massive collapse in numbers over the past 25 years.
In a finding that challenges conventional medical knowledge, researchers report that plaques formed in during atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, are associated with certain harmful chemical reactions that can contribute to damage in the lungs, liver and other organs. The study suggests that the effects of the disease are more widespread than previously believed.
Researchers have discovered that blood vessels in the head can guide growing facial nerve cells with blood pressure controlling proteins. The findings suggest that blood vessels throughout the body might have the same power of persuasion over many nerves.
Researchers who have followed 5,840 people from before birth to the age of 31 have found evidence suggesting that small size at birth and excessive weight gain during adolescence and young adulthood may lead to low grade inflammation, which, in turn, is associated with an increased risk of developing heart disease. The study underlines the important role of healthy lifestyles, from the fetal period, through childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, in preventing heart problems.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh has introduced an improved cooking stove that will consume 50 percent less of the biomass used for cooking in rural areas, a senior official said on Sunday.
A musician from Mozambique who campaigns for clean water and sanitation gets a top environmental prize. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:47 pm
Producers search for a talent big enough to fill Neil Armstrong's boots in film of astronaut's life Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:11 pm
Patients are dying of cancer because GPs are failing to identify their symptoms, the government's top cancer expert warns Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:07 pm
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to an official report released on Saturday.
