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342 articles from THURSDAY 5.1.2012

• THURSDAY 5. JANUARY, 2012
• 02:24 Study shows antibiotic prophylaxis a vital weapon in preventing streptococcus b infection in newborns

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  A study investigating epidemiology of Streptococcus B infection worldwide has shown that the highest levels of infection are found in Africa, followed by the Americas and Europe. The study shows the use of prophylactic antibiotics in mothers at risk of Streptococcus B substantially reduces infection rates in newborns, and that such intervention, widely applied in high-income countries, should also be used in the developing world, at least until vaccines become available. Encouragingly, and unlike some other pathogens, the distribution of strains of Streptococcus B appears similar worldwide, and therefore vaccines in development could have near-universal applicability once licensed. The study is by Dr Karen Edmond, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and colleagues.  

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• 02:24 Study shows genital herpes can reactivate even during high dose antiviral therapy

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  A study combining three trials of antiviral therapy to treat genital herpes (herpes simplex virus type 2/HSV-2) has shown that the virus can reactivate in 'breakthrough episodes' even when doses of antiviral therapy are high. Thus new therapies are needed to successfully prevent onward transmission of this common infection that affects some one in five of the general population. These are the conclusions of an Article published Online First by the Lancet, written by Dr Christine Johnston, University of Washington Virology Research Clinic, Seattle, WA, USA, and colleagues.  

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• 02:19 Underwater neutrino telescopes

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  Underwater telescopes search for cosmic secrets  

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• 02:15 Internet provider hiking rates after CRTC ruling

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  An independent internet service provider, TekSavvy Solutions Inc., plans to hike its rates next month in response to recent CRTC decision on usage-based billing.

   

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• 01:26 Study: Parasitic fly could explain bee die-off (AP)

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  AP - Northern California scientists say they have found a possible explanation for a honey bee die-off that has decimated hives around the world: A parasitic fly that hijacks the bees' bodies and causes them to abandon hives.

  
   

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• 01:19 After quakes, owner to lower pressure in Ohio well (AP)

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  AP - The owner of a northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling plans to remove material from it to help lower its inner pressure following 11 minor earthquakes.  

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• 00:24 FDA orders safety studies of women's surgical mesh

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  (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is ordering medical device manufacturers to study safety complications with surgical mesh widely used to repair women's pelvic problems.  

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• 00:24 Flipped from head to toe: 100 years of continental drift theory

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  Exactly 100 years ago, on 6 January 1912, Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the public for the first time. At a meeting of the Geological Association in Frankfurt's Senckenberg Museum, he revealed his thoughts on the supercontinent Pangaea, which broke apart and whose individual parts now drift across the earth as today's continents. In 1915, he published his book "The Origin of Continents and Oceans". Its third edition in 1922 was translated into the languages ​​of the world and today is considered the foundation stone of plate tectonics.  

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• 00:24 Google buys more patents from IBM

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  Google Inc. has bought another 188 U.S. patents and 29 patent applications from IBM Corp., IBM confirmed Wednesday.  

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• 00:24 Harp seals on thin ice after 32 years of warming

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  Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, according to a new Duke University-led study.  

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• 00:24 How can Lyme disease be prevented and controlled?

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  Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, with the majority of cases occurring in the Northeast. It has been three decades since the agent of the disease, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, and the ticks that vector it were identified. However, the number of Lyme disease cases have steadily increased.  

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• 00:24 Lower cutoff for lead poisoning urged

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  (AP) -- A federal panel is recommending lowering the threshold for lead poisoning in children.  

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• 00:24 Men and women have major personality differences

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  Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new study published Jan. 4 in the online journal PLoS ONE.  

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• 00:24 New England Journal: 200 years of medical history

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  Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago.  

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• 00:24 Reprogrammed oestrogen binding linked to more aggressive breast cancer

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  (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists based at Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Research Institute have discovered how receptors for the female sex hormone oestrogen attach to a different part of the DNA in breast cancer patients who are more likely to relapse, according to a study published in Nature today.  

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• 00:24 Research shows progress toward a genital herpes vaccine

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  An investigational vaccine protected some women against infection from one of the two types of herpes simplex viruses that cause genital herpes, according to findings in the New England Journal of Medicine.  

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• 00:16 Are Renewable Energy Sources Too Costly to Pursue? (ContributorNetwork)

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  ContributorNetwork - According to the International Business Times, Congress allowed a longtime subsidy for ethanol -- in the form of tax credits -- to expire with the dawn of this new year. But ethanol isn't the only form of alternative energy that the government subsidizes.  

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