Rats were paralyzed walked again .
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by admin in Life, News
By stimulating certain neural circuits in the spinal cord, researchers report in paraplegic rats the ability to walk on their hind legs. Although it is only a movement uncontrolled, this success may be left augur a therapeutic approach, which is still hypothetical. Rats whose spinal cord was severed were able to walk again. This surprising result is based on an original technique of stimulating the existing networks within the spinal cord (more…)
The World deafness, today
Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by admin in Life, News
Deafness is not a disability, explains the actress Emmanuelle Laborit. This is what deaf want to explain to others what is not so easy. This Tuesday, September 29, the hearing must listen to those who speak other than by voice. The World Federation of the Deaf, in fact, present in 123 countries, recommended to organize during the last week of September a day of awareness. This year, today … In fact, all countries have not developed in unison and the days of the Deaf did not place the same day. (more…)
AIDS: dramatic improvement in access to treatment in poor countries
Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health & Medicine, News
Over 4 million people in low income countries and middle had access to antiretroviral treatment against AIDS in 2008, an increase of over a million (35.69%) in one year, on Wednesday welcomed the World Health Organization (WHO).
“CCAA antiretroviral treatment continues to setendre quickly,” the WHO said in its annual report on the AIDS situation in the world.
In late 2008, some 4.03 million residents of poor countries were taking antiretroviral drugs, against 2.97 million the previous year. “The most marked progress has been made in sub-Saharan Africa, which produce two thirds of HIV infections in the world,” the study says. (more…)
Flu and gastro down, chickenpox up
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health & Medicine, News
The peaks of epidemics of influenza and gastroenteritis are now gone, as indicated by the monitoring network Sentinel, which, however, recorded in France six foci of high activity for chickenpox.
The intensity of epidemics of influenza and gastro-enteritis prevalent in metropolitan France declines for several weeks. In both cases, the sentinel network physicians provide a “return to normal for early March. (more…)
ELECTRONIC MEDICAL / SCIENCE
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health & Medicine, News
ELECTRONIC MEDICAL / SCIENCE The journal Medicine / Science has an editorial management automated via the computer system FontisWorks . All manuscripts, abstracts, news, editorials, summaries or texts of the forum must be submitted electronically (more…)
Carbon tax: a site to calculate what it will cost you
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by admin in News, Physical
A consumer association, the CLCV, is an online calculator determining a household, the amount of carbon tax on the year and the amount will be repaid by the state. After the decision to adopt a carbon tax based on an amount of 17 euros per tonne of carbon dioxide released, we know that the price of gasoline at the pump increase by 4 cents and a liter of fuel will cost 4 cents more . But how will pay a total of a household that does not change or may not change his habits? (more…)
Health Alerts Food: high score of European products
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health & Medicine, News
From motor oil in bottles of sunflower oil, melamine in foods, dioxins in pork … The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RAFF) to European Union, has not been idle in 2008. On the occasion of its thirtieth year of existence, the European Commission takes stock of its activities.
First observation, in 2008 the number of food scares has almost halved compared to 2007. (more…)
An underground oil spill in a nature reserve
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin in Earth Sciences, News
A pipeline, which is part of a major network between Germany, France and Switzerland, was broken in August, amidst the nature reserve of Coussouls Crau. The situation is still not back to normal, and the water table is now under surveillance .On 7 August, a pipeline crack spread its hydrocarbon at the heart of the nature reserve Coussouls Crau, Bouches-du-Rhone. (more…)
The nanodiamants for gene therapy
Posted on 06. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health & Medicine, News
The gene therapy is promising but is based on inserting new genes into cells. This process is difficult but that could change if we are to believe a team of researchers in the United States using nanodiamants.That decades that the therapy gene dream and some spectacular results have been obtained in the treatment of certain genetic diseases. But the gap remains wide between the hopes raised by the various attempts over the past thirty years and the reality. (more…)
Influenza A (H1N1): good news, the virus would not mutate
Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by admin in Featured, News
A U.S. team shows that the virus A (H1N1) is reluctant to combine with that of flu seasonal, what was the greatest fear facing the pandemic now. The vaccine, once developed, will be effective … and probably very useful because, as the study also shows, influenza A (H1N1) is particularly active. (more…)