http://slimsafeonline.com/blog Safe, easy and effective weight loss, Latest Free weightloss information Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:11:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A harmless shard from the shell of a common childhood virus may halt a biological process that kills a significant percentage of battlefield casualties, heart attack victims and oxygen-deprived newborns, according to research presented Sunday, September 6, 2009, at the 12th European meeting on complement in human disease in Budapest, ... http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/piece-from-childhood-virus-may-save-soldiers-lives/ An innovative collaboration among UC Davis engineers, physicists and radiologists has resulted in the first-ever fully 3-D breast imaging technique that uses both high-resolution PET and CT scanning. http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/first-breast-petct-scanner-to-visualize-suspected-cancerous-lesions-in-3-d/ Analysis of ancient DNA from skeletons suggests that Europe's first farmers were not the descendants of the people who settled the area after the retreat of the ice sheets. Instead, the early farmers probably migrated into major areas of central and eastern Europe about 7,500 years ago, bringing domesticated plants ... http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/europes-first-farmers-replaced-their-stone-age-hunter-gatherer-forerunners/ Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Tech's nuclear engineering program will receive 0,000 for faculty development and 9,948 for fellowships from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/nrc-supports-nuclear-engineering-at-virginia-tech/ Genes that regulate the energy consumption of cells have a different structure and expression in type II diabetics than they do in healthy people, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet published in http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/dna-mutations-linked-to-diabetes/ The U.S. has taken the next step toward construction of the revolutionary Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): a network of ocean observing components, and their associated cyberinfrastructure, that will allow scientists to examine ocean processes on global, regional and coastal scales. http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/uc-san-diego-to-develop-ocean-observing-cyberinfrastructure/ Scientists are addressing the threat of antimicrobial drug resistance by launching two new clinical trials aimed at prolonging the effectiveness of currently available antibacterial drugs. The concept underlying both studies: Less is more. http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/niaid-funds-clinical-trials-that-address-the-problem-of-antimicrobial-resistance/ Pandemic swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu can, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology. The researchers, from Imperial College London, say this may explain why people infected with the pandemic strain of swine-origin H1N1 influenza are more likely to suffer ... http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/pandemic-flu-can-infect-cells-deep-in-the-lungs-says-new-research/ New York, NY (September 10, 2009): A new study published in the September 11, 2009 issue of Science by researchers at the NYU School of Medicine reveal a conceptually novel mechanism that plays an important role in making human pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis resistant to numerous ... http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/scientists-discover-mechanism-to-make-existing-antibiotics-more-effective-at-lower-doses/ People with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are the heaviest smokers in the country, but their doctors are afraid to ask them to quit. They assume that if their patients try to quit smoking, their mental disorders will get worse. read more http://slimsafeonline.com/blog/2009/09/11/doctors-fear-asking-mentally-ill-to-quit-smoking/