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November 13, 2012

3:00 PM | Your House Is Killing You. Here Are 7 Ways To Stop It

Is your living room making you sick? Flickr Creative CommonsA roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home Your comfy couch. The wooden chairs in your kitchen. The paint you spent months picking out. Cleaning supplies piled under the bathroom sink, and even the sink itself. Nearly every item and surface in your home emits toxins into the air that you breathe. According to the EPA, concentrations of these airborne pollutants are […]

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Why don't men understand women?

Men might have found themselves an excuse not to listen to women. New research suggests that men have twice more difficulty reading emotions in women than in men. This may not sound surprising, but evidence that men have trouble understanding women is, at best, scarce.Being able to guess someone else’s thoughts, feelings and intentions is […]

Schiffer B., Pawliczek C., Müller B.W., Gizewski E.R., Walter H. & Krueger F. (2013). Why Don't Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes, PLoS ONE, 8 (4) e60278. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060278.g003

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Epilepsy Service Organization in Countries with Limited Resources

tumblr: bellapaige88On average, 9.5/1000 population has epilepsy in Low and Middle Income Countries (LAMIC). A research which has resulted in the global campaign against epilepsy has shown, the gap between treatment need and the treatment provision worldwide is approximately 70% [1]. This large ‘treatment gap’, i.e., lack of appropriate treatment for a large number of patients with epilepsy, due to a number of causes including inability to identify cases, inability to deliver adequate […]

Mbuba CK, Ngugi AK, Newton CR & Carter JA (2008). The epilepsy treatment gap in developing countries: a systematic review of the magnitude, causes, and intervention strategies., Epilepsia, 49 (9) 1491-503. PMID: 18557778

Pal, D., Das, T. & Sengupta, S. (2000). Case-control and qualitative study of attrition in a community epilepsy programme in rural India, Seizure, 9 (2) 119-123. DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1999.0357

Mani KS, Rangan G, Srinivas HV, Srindharan VS & Subbakrishna DK (2001). Epilepsy control with phenobarbital or phenytoin in rural south India: the Yelandur study., Lancet, 357 (9265) 1316-20. PMID: 11343735

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Baby geniuses: young guppies show number skills

I have vague memories of the first time I counted to a hundred. It felt like one of those landmarks like tying your shoes for yourself the first time, or riding the bicycle more than a few feet without the training wheels or dad holding you up. Of course, I don't come anywhere near Adam Spencer: Once when I was about 7, I counted to 10,000 just to check the numbers didn't run out before then #NerdConfessions Counting large numbers is not something that comes easily for us humans. A new paper […]

Piffer L., Miletto Petrazzini M.E. & Agrillo C. (2013). Large number discrimination in newborn fish, PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062466

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The Earlier discovery of Antibiotic Resistance

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how quickly penicillin resistance was discovered not long before it was distributed to the public, and how even Alexander Fleming noted his worries over penicillin resistance in the closing of his Nobel prize acceptance speech. But even in the process of researching this article, I realised that I was merely scratching the surface. You see penicillin was not the first antibiotic discovered. If I want to talk about the first discovery of antibiotic […]

Bentley R. (2009). Different roads to discovery; Prontosil (hence sulfa drugs) and penicillin (hence β-lactams), Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 36 (6) 775-786. DOI: 10.1007/s10295-009-0553-8

Macleod C. & Daddi G. (1939). A ''Sulfapyridine-Fast'' Strain of Pneumococcus Type 1, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 41 69-71. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-41-10575P

Cokkinis A.J. (1938). SULPHONAMIDE CHEMOTHERAPY IN SURGICAL INFECTIONS--I, BMJ, 2 (4059) 845-847. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4059.845

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Stand by me: Close friendships appear to counteract genetic vulnerability to depression in girls, but not boys

Publication of US psychiatry's updated diagnostic code has provoked renewed debate in recent weeks over the extent to which mental illness ought to be framed as a psychosocial or a biological problem. The answer of course is that it is both. A new Canadian study captures this interplay, showing how close friendships appear to mitigate the risk for girls whose genes mean they are more vulnerable than average to depression. Mara Brendgen and her colleagues studied 294 pairs of twins aged ten […]

Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Bukowski, W., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. & Boivin, M. (2013). Can friends protect genetically vulnerable children from depression?, Development and Psychopathology, 25 (02) 277-289. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579412001058

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