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- Measles Deaths Have Plummeted Globally
Measles deaths have fallen to 74 percent worldwide in the past 10 years thanks to an intensive attempt to vaccinate children in Africa and other regions, health officials announced Thursday.Measles deaths globally declined from a projected 750,000 in 2000, the year prior to the vaccination efforts starting, to 197,000 in 2007, the U.N. - Be Careful: Happiness Is Indeed Contagious
A smile really is infectious, researchers happily announced on Thursday.The team has conducted a study that shows that the more joyful people you are acquainted with, the larger the chance is that you will be happy."It's extremely important and interesting work," said Daniel Kahneman, an emeritus psychologist and Nobel laureate at Princeton."What we are dealing with is an emotional stampede," added Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School."There's kind of an emotional quiet riot that occurs and takes on a life of its own, that people themselves may be unaware of. - Secondhand Smoke Increases Odds Of Fertility Problems
If you need another reason to quit smoking, consider that it may diminish your chances of being a parent or grandparent. - Report Finds Americans Need More Exercise
Researchers from the U.S. - Researchers Warn of Internet Drugs
UK government officials have warned against purchasing drugs online in response to a recent study showing how accessible such drugs have become. - Defense Department Told To Study Brain Injuries In Troops
According to researchers, many of the troops who suffer brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan may have long-term health problems such as depression and Alzheimer’s. - Obama To Begin Healthcare Reform Meetings
The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama will soon begin a series of meetings across the country devoted to healthcare reform, modeled on those his campaign held last summer.Obama issued a statement on Friday assuring the American public that providing quality affordable health care for all Americans was one his top priorities for the country.“Our long-term fiscal prospects will have a hard time improving as long as sky-rocketing health care costs are holding us all down," Obama said."Yet in order for us to reform our health care system, we must first begin reforming how government communicates with the American people," he added."These Health Care Community Discussions are a great way for the American people to have a direct say in our health care reform efforts and I encourage Americans to take part if they are able."The president-elect’s choice for Health and Human Services Secretary will be former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, who announced that the meetings would start on December 15 and run through December 31, before the new president is inaugurated on January 20.Obama's Internet site www.change.gov asks people to submit ideas for changing America's costly and inefficient healthcare system, which leaves tens of millions uninsured.Daschle said during a meeting of healthcare industry experts in Denver that he would like to allow the states to be workshops and laboratories of innovation.He stated that past efforts to reform the healthcare system had been bogged down in details and he pledged to fight against long, cumbersome legislation."Details kill! Once we get started, let's finish and not languish," Daschle told the meeting of executives.Politicians, labor unions, health insurers, doctors and the general public all agree that the United States needs to reform its inadequate healthcare system, which is also the most expensive in the world.Experts say around 46 million Americans are without health insurance, and Americans are more likely to die of common diseases than people living in many other developed countries."The myth is that we have the best healthcare system in the world," Daschle said, adding: "We do have islands of excellence in a sea of mediocrity."Obama pledged during his presidential campaign to bring health insurance to millions of uninsured Americans and to spend about $50 billion to make medical records electronic.However, numerous health reform advocates suggest it will take broad public support to overhaul an industry that has become among the most intractable of U.S. - Blood-system stem cells reproduce more slowly than expected
Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found a subpopulation of hematopoietic stem cells, the source of all blood and immune system cells, that reproduce much more slowly than previously anticipated. - UC Davis Researchers Exploring Gene Therapy To Fight AIDS
The apparent success of a case in which German doctors cured a man of AIDS using a bone marrow transplant comes as no surprise to Gerhard Bauer, a UC Davis stem cell researcher. - Deadly Lung Disease Also Linked To Heart Attacks
Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are three times as likely to experience severe coronary events—including heart attacks—than people without the disease, according to a recent study that analyzed the risk of cardiovascular disease in nearly 1,000 patients with IPF and more than 3,500 matched controls."If you look at them over time, people with IPF have roughly a three-fold increased risk of acute coronary syndrome, which is a greater increase than you get from smoking," said Richard B. - Intervention in infants with cystic fibrosis key to slowing progression
Early detection of lung disease in cystic fibrosis (CF), combined with aggressive treatment in infants, may be the key to controlling the progression of the disease, according to a recent study. - 50 Years Of Hairy-Cell Leukemia Research
In 1958, Ohio State University cancer researcher Dr. - Moving Juvenile Salmon Hinders Adult Migration
Attempts to avoid dams decrease survival in adult fishScientists have discovered that management efforts intended to assist migrations of salmon and steelhead trout can have unintended consequences for fish populations. - Lab Identifies Key Step in Maturation Pathway of Telomerase
The Stowers Institute’s Baumann Lab has discovered an important step in the maturation pathway of telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the sequences that are lost at chromosome ends with every cell division. - Workman Lab discovers novel histone demethylase protein complex
The Stowers Institute's Workman Lab has discovered a novel histone demethylase protein complex characterized in work published today in Molecular Cell.The Histone H3 protein is an important component of chromatin, the packing material wrapping up chromosomal DNA and preventing unwanted transcription of the message encoded in the DNA. - Children's National Convenes First Childhood Obesity Symposium
Clinicians, policy leaders and scientists gathered to discuss translational, clinical and community research successes in childhood obesity prevention and treatmentOn Tuesday, November 25, 2008, the Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical Center gathered experts from many disciplines to share ideas, failures and successes, and the future promise of prevention and intervention strategie