EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience- July 8, 2008 The following articles are featured in the July 9 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience: Dopamine transporter efflux in ADHD; Learning-induced gray-matter plasticity; Preventing programmed cell death in vivo; and Neurological effects of folate deficiency.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/sfn-ntf070208.php Members of consumer-driven health plans choosing less care- July 8, 2008 Consumer-driven health plans -- hailed since their inception in 2000 as a tool to help control costs -- are resulting in members forgoing care and discontinuing drugs to treat chronic medical problems, according to two newly published studies.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uoo-moc070608.php Overweight, insulin resistant women at greater risk of advanced breast cancer diagnosis, says study- July 7, 2008 Women who have risk factors commonly associated with type 2 diabetes also have much greater odds of being diagnosed with an advanced breast cancer, according to research to be presented today.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uom-oir070708.php Crawling the Internet to track infectious disease outbreaks- July 7, 2008 Could Internet discussion forums, listservs and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online intelligence. They describe their project in this week's PLoS Medicine.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/plos-cti070308.php Fertility treatment in developing countries; a cycle of IVF for less than $200- July 7, 2008 After 30 years of IVF, the rewards of treatment are still largely confined to industrialized countries and those who can afford it. Now, a Special Task Force of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has set about the immeasurable task of making fertility treatment more accessible to developing countries through a program of pilot projects, professional awareness and involvement of government and non-governmental agencies.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/esfh-fti070608.php Creating a new approach to archiving human genetic information- July 7, 2008 How a genomic code is deciphered is traditionally left to professional annotators who use information from a number of sources (for instance, knowledge about similar genes in other organisms) to work out where a gene starts, stops and what it does. Even the "gold standard" of professional annotation is an exceptionally slow process. However, new technology may provide a faster solution.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/plos-can070308.php Children born after donor insemination should be told as soon as possible about their conception- July 7, 2008 It is better for children conceived by donor insemination to be told of their origins at an early age, according to the first large-scale study of people who are aware of their donor conception. If the children are not told until they are 18 or older, they are more likely to have feelings of shock and anger, the 24th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona heard on Monday.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/esfh-cba070608.php Child care factors associated with weight gain in infancy- July 7, 2008 Nine-month-old infants regularly cared for by someone other than a parent appear to have higher rates of unfavorable feeding practices and to weigh more than infants cared for only by parents, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMAArchives journals.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/jaaj-ccf070308.php Parents of twins report more mental health symptoms than parents of singletons- July 7, 2008 Mothers and fathers of twins conceived either spontaneously or with assisted reproductive technology suffer more mental health symptoms after delivery and one year later than do parents of singleton babies, according to research presented to the 24th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona on Monday.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/esfh-pot070608.php Early-life nutrition may be associated with adult intellectual functioning- July 7, 2008 Adults who had improved nutrition in early childhood may score better on intellectual tests, regardless of the number of years they attended school, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMAArchives journals.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/jaaj-enm070308.php |