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On Monday, the association said bystanders should skip mouth-to-mouth breathing and just do chest compressions on adults who suddenly collapse. Hands-only compressions should be done by pushing hard and fast in the middle of the victim’s chest.
The new guidelines were prompted by three separate studies last year showing improved survival after [...]

When Venetia Hill got the phone call from the organisers of the Cuisine New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards, she immediately assumed the worst: maybe her entry in the hobbyist category had gone mouldy while being couriered to Auckland from her Motueka home, and wasnt fit for judging.
But it was quite the opposite. The call [...]

That’s yet another good reason to eat at least some antioxidant-rich foods at every meal, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Ronald L. Prior. To learn more about the effects of antioxidants on postprandial, or after-meal, oxidative stress, Prior and co-investigators collaborated in four clinical studies with healthy female volunteers.
The scientists found that the [...]

For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to treat disease in the same subjects from whom the initial cells were derived. While this current work is in animals, it could have future implications as this method may be an effective way to reduce transplant rejection and enhance [...]

Huntington’s disease is one of a number of degenerative diseases marked by build up of a malformed proteins in brain cells, mainly in the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex. Normally, cells dispose of or recycle their waste material, including unwanted or misfolded proteins, through a process known as autophagy, or ’self-eating’.
The group of Professor [...]

%26quot;The interesting thing about this mutant is that while it triggers totally normal RNA replication, it causes severe defects in the output of infectious virus–in fact, it releases no infectious virus that we can detect,%26quot; says Tellinghuisen. %26quot;And though this discovery isn’t a cure for HCV, it is an important research tool that stops the [...]

Anne Osbourn and colleagues previously found that the genes needed to make an antifungal compound in oats, called avenacin, were next to each other in the genome. One of a group of chemicals known as triterpenes, avenacin is produced exclusively by oats and protects the roots against a wide spectrum of fungal diseases. [...]

A %26quot;Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases,%26quot; say Professor Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute and George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA) and colleagues, would %26quot;satisfy an urgent need to support NTD control and elimination.%26quot;
The NTDs, such as intestinal worms, schistosomiasis, elephantiasis, and river blindness, represent the most common infections of the world’s poorest–the bottom billion. [...]

Buruli ulcer is a neglected, devastating, necrotizing disease, sometimes producing massive, disfiguring ulcers, with huge social impact. The disease occurs predominantly in impoverished, humid, tropical, rural areas of Africa, where the incidence has been increasing, surpassing tuberculosis and leprosy (two other diseases caused by mycobacteria) in some regions. Besides being a disease of the poor, [...]

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago managed the feat and say their method could expedite understanding of the physiology of important insects such as Drosophila melanogaster, the common laboratory fruit fly that shares almost three-quarters of its genetic code with humans.
Scott Shippy, associate professor of chemistry, and doctoral student Sujeewa Piyankarage developed the [...]