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Cougar predation key to ecosystem health
10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!The general disappearance of cougars from a portion of Zion National Park in the past 70 years has allowed deer populations to dramatically increase, leading to severe ecological damage, loss of cottonwood trees, eroding streambanks and declining biodiversity. Researchers are calling it a "trophic cascade" of environmental degradation.
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- Mayo Clinic discovers DNA repair as key to Huntington's disease
04-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Mayo Clinic researchers, along with collaborators from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and University of Oslo, Norway, have discovered that a miscue of the body’s genetic repair system may cause Huntington's disease, a fatal condition that affects 30,000 Americans annually by destroying their nervous system. Until now, no one knew how Huntington’s begins, only that it is incurable. The findings appear in the online issue of the journal Nature.
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- National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
07-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
As health-care quality and patient safety concerns rise, the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders survey finds leaders united behind several key reform measures: More than half (56 percent) support the creation of a new public-private entity to coordinate quality efforts and form a national quality agenda; 95 percent believe that fundamental payment reform is needed; and three-fourths (73 percent) say that greater organization and integration of provider care is necessary for improved quality and efficiency.
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- Factor key to severity of community-associated methicillin-resistant staph infections identified
11-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Scientists zero in on the cellular machinery that enables neurons to fire
11-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
If you ever had a set of Micronauts -- toy robots with removable body parts -- you probably had fun swapping their heads, imagining how it would affect their behavior. Scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health have been performing similar experiments on ion channels -- pores in our nerve cells -- to sort out the channels' key functional parts.
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- Cancer patients may benefit from reporting symptoms online in real time
11-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center finds that even the sickest cancer patients are willing and able to "self-report" symptoms using the Internet, thus supplying key data in real time to their health-care providers.
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- Area creek studied for rangeland effects on water quality
10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!
Elevated levels of bacteria in streams can affect waterquality, the health of the aquatic ecosystem and activities such asfishing, swimming and wading, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Stationresearcher said. Dr. John Sij, Experiment Station agronomist in Vernon, and his team areworking on what might possibly be a showcase study for Texas. He and histeam are measuring water quality of a rangeland watershed.
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- Male contraception -- UVa discovery stirring interest among basic scientists and drug developers
12-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
In a study recently published online by Developmental Biology, members of Dr. John Herr's laboratory at the University of Virginia Health System report the discovery of a new protein within a sperm's tail that could prove a key target for male contraceptive drugs.
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- Lessons from Turkey's bird flu outbreak
11-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- U of S Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization team discovers key step in flu virus replication
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- Medical teams are key to patient safety
12-28-2006 · EurekAlert!
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