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248 articles from MONDAY 16.1.2012

• MONDAY 16. JANUARY, 2012
• 06:00 Reports from trial registries are indispensable for systematic reviews

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  Different formats are available for reporting the results of clinical trials. In an article just published in the British Medical Journal, IQWiG employees investigated to what extent journal publications, reports posted in trial results registries, and clinical study reports submitted to regulatory authorities provide sufficient information to evaluate clinical trials.  

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• 06:00 Researchers quantify the damage of alcohol by timing and exposure during pregnancy

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  Prenatal exposure to alcohol is associated with a spectrum of abnormalities in the offspring. A new study has examined patterns of drinking specific to timing of exposure during pregnancy, collecting the information while the mother was still pregnant instead of after delivery.Numerous specific associations were found, the most significant ones during the second half of the first trimester of pregnancy.  

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• 06:00 Reverse inclusion and the question of disability

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  Elite level wheelchair basketball players with disabilities see value in inclusion of able-bodied athletes on the team, University of Alberta study shows.  

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• 06:00 Revolutionary surgical technique for perforations of the eardrum

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  A revolutionary surgical technique for treating perforations of the tympanic membrane (eardrum) in children and adults has been developed at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre, an affiliate of the University of Montreal, by Dr. Issam Saliba. The new technique, which is as effective as traditional surgery and far less expensive, can be performed in 20 minutes at an outpatient clinic during a routine visit to an ENT specialist.  

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• 06:00 Some breast cancer spread may be triggered by a protein, study shows

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  Cancers rarely are deadly unless they evolve the ability to grow beyond the tissues in which they first arise. Normally, cells -- even early-stage tumor cells -- are tethered to scaffolding that helps to restrain any destructive tendencies. But scientists from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and from UCSF have identified a cleaver-wielding protein that frees some tumor cells, allowing them to further misbehave.  

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• 06:00 Study provides new insights into antibiotics and pig feeds

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  Antibiotics in pig feed increased the number of antibiotic resistant genes in gastrointestinal microbes in pigs, according to a study conducted by Michigan State University and the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. Published in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the comprehensive study focused on understanding the effects of conventional, in-feed antibiotics in US farms.  

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• 06:00 Traditional physical autopsies -- not high-tech 'virtopsies' -- still 'gold standard'

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  TV crime shows like "Bones" and "CSI" are quick to explain each death by showing highly detailed scans and video images of victims' insides. Traditional autopsies, if shown at all, are at best in supporting roles to the high-tech equipment, and usually gloss over the sometimes physically grueling tasks of sawing through skin and bone.  

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• 06:00 U of A researcher says good wingmen will fib for a friend

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  It could be called the wingman theory or the Barney Stinson principle (after the character played by Neil Patrick Harris on hit TV show "How I Met Your Mother"). A University of Alberta researcher says that -- like Barney, who spends much of his time trying to find his single friend a mate -- people are generally willing to help a friend protect or enhance his reputation or help him otherwise save face in a social situation.  

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• 06:00 UBC researchers identify potential new therapy approach for hepatitis C

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  Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a new way to block infection from the hepatitis C virus in the liver that could lead to new therapies for those affected by this and other infectious diseases.  

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• 06:00 UH Case Medical Center publishes study on novel treatment for skin lymphoma

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  Promising findings on a novel combination treatment approach for a chronic type of skin lymphoma are being published today in JAMA's Archives of Dermatology by clinical researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.  

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• 06:00 University of Granada researchers identify changes in tumor cells that lead to metastasis

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  The characterization of these cells will allow individualized follow-up of cancer patients, and the development of more efficient therapies.  

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• 06:00 Vitamin D could help combat the effects of aging in eyes

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  Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have found that vitamin D reduces the effects of aging in mouse eyes and improves the vision of older mice significantly. The researchers hope that this might mean that vitamin D supplements could provide a simple and effective way to combat age-related eye diseases, such as macular degeneration, in people.  

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• 06:00 Wood-burning stoves - harmful or safe?

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  Wood-burning stoves are a popular source of heating in many countries. However in recent years there has been much debate about the potential negative health effects associated with wood smoke. A Norwegian researcher has studied the influence of combustion conditions on the emissions and their health effects.  

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• 05:57 Wylie Vale Jr., Groundbreaking Endocrinologist, Dies at 70

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  Dr. Vale helped identify the hormones through which the brain governs basic bodily functions and was involved in a combative race for the Nobel Prize.
  
   

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• 04:36 Moon-walk mineral discovered in Western Australia

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  The last mineral thought to have been unique to the Moon has been discovered in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia.  

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• 04:33 Engineering team completes ambitious Antarctic expedition in the 'deep-field'

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  A team of four British engineers has returned to the UK after completing a grueling journey to one of the most remote and hostile locations on the planet to put in place equipment and supplies for an ambitious project later this year. Enduring temperatures of minus 35 C the Subglacial Lake Ellsworth "Advance Party" has successfully paved the way to explore an ancient lake buried beneath 3 km of Antarctic ice.  

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• 03:17 London 2012 'disease spread risk'

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  Mass gatherings, such as the London 2012 Olympics, can be a hotbed of diseases from across the world, public health experts have warned.  

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• 02:10 Russian space probe crashes into Pacific (AP)

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  AP - A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars has come down in flames, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said.

  
   

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• 02:02 Nigerian president and unions fail to strike deal (Reuters)

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  Reuters - President Goodluck Jonathan and labor unions failed in overnight talks to reach a compromise over the removal of fuel subsidies that has raised fears of a shutdown of Nigeria's oil industry, union and presidency sources said Monday.

  
   

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• 01:31 Volunteers wanted for planet hunt

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  Members of the public are being asked to become online stargazers and join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.  

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• 01:15 Antarctic lake bid edges closer

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  Plan to explore vast lake beneath Antarctic ice moves a step closer  

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• 01:09 Alien hunters: What if ET ever phones our home?

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  What's the plan if we find intelligent life in space?  

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• 01:05 Science Weekly podcast: Playing God with nature

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  Alok Jha meets Dr Adam Rutherford to discuss his BBC Horizon documentary Playing God, which explores the exciting industrial potential and worrying moral dilemmas posed by synthetic biology. This new field's radical aim is "to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please".

  Alok is joined in the studio by Observer science editor Robin McKie to rake over some of this week's hottest science news stories, including recent observations that suggest almost every star has at least one planet – with huge implications for the discovery of life beyond Earth – and research showing that Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park got it right about leaping Velociraptors.

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