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CITES Makes Historic Decision to Protect Sharks and Rays
March 14, 2013 CITES plenary today accepted Committee recommendations to list five species of highly traded sharks under the CITES Appendices, along with those for the listing of both manta rays and one species of ... > full story -
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New Early Warning System for the Brain Development of Babies
March 14, 2013 Researchers have developed a non-invasive optical measurement system to monitor neonatal brain activity via cerebral metabolism and blood ... > full story -
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Fluid Given to Treat Shock Can Kill: Clinical Trial Shows How 'Standard' Procedure Results in Children's Deaths
March 13, 2013 Children who are given fluid to treat shock have an increased risk of death due to cardiovascular collapse at 48 hours, according to new ... > full story -
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Mutations in VCP Gene Implicated in a Number of Neurodegenerative Diseases
March 13, 2013 New research gives insight into how single mutations in the VCP gene cause a range of neurological conditions including a form of dementia called Inclusion Body Myopathy, Paget’s Disease of the ... > full story -
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No Attention-Boosting Drugs for Healthy Kids, Doctors Urge
March 13, 2013 The practice of prescribing drugs to boost cognitive function, or memory and thinking abilities, in healthy children and teens is misguided, according to a new statement by the American Academy of ... > full story -
Mechanism That Regulates Production of Energy-Burning Brown Fat Discovered
March 13, 2013 Scientists have discovered a mechanism that regulates the production of brown fat, a type of fat which plays an important role in heat production and energy metabolism. The findings may lead to new ... > full story -
Protein May Alter Inevitability of Osteoarthritis
March 13, 2013 Few things in life are inevitable - death, taxes, and, if you live long enough, osteoarthritis. Researchers have now unraveled the effects of a naturally occurring protein called lubricin, or ... > full story -
Tapeworm DNA Contains Drug Weak Spots: Existing Drugs Could Be Effective in Treating This Damaging Parasite, the First Full Tapeworm Genomes Reveal
March 13, 2013 Tapeworms cause devastating disease around the world and new treatments are urgently needed. A new study describes possible targets on which currently licensed drugs could act, identified by genome ... > full story -
Normal Prion Protein Regulates Iron Metabolism
March 13, 2013 An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, researchers have found. The breakthrough follows discoveries that ... > full story -
New Hope in Fight Against Leading Infectious Cause of Congenital Birth Defects
March 13, 2013 A virus most people probably have never heard of, but that the majority of us carry, is the No. 1 infectious cause of congenital birth defects in the U.S. today. Because of cytomegalovirus (CMV) ... > full story
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