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That could mean that the at-risk people were working harder to recognize the well-known celebrities, compensating for already damaged or destroyed neurons that were no longer functioning, while the control group had to struggle only when trying to place the names of noncelebrities, recruiting more nerve cells and connections, racking their memory banks and recall centers. Significantly, in neither group did pictures of the brain designed to pick up structural changes associated with dementia, like signs of atrophy and dead neurons, show any differences - at least not yet. (Read "Can Language Skills Ward Off Alzheimer's? A Nuns...
...What sparked the reports about insufficient testing of the new vaccine was a statement by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, confirming that the government has given flu vaccine manufacturers a green light to begin bottling up still-experimental shots and readying them for shipment, even before the final results from the ongoing tests on the vaccine's safety and effectiveness are completed.(Read: "Study: H1N1 Vaccine Works On Animals...
...York and former director of the National Institutes of Health, were generated using data from previous flu pandemics--from 1918, 1957 and 1968--along with the latest data from last spring's outbreaks of H1N1 around the world. Those stats, say officials at the Centers for Disease Control, were then run through models used in the government's 2005 pandemic preparedness efforts that began in the wake of bird flu cases of H5N1 that arose in Asia. (See "Mapping Swine...
...Bruce Nauman - and the discussions almost identical. Ambition, both on the part of the artists and the collectors who hoped to gain prestige from their purchases, dominated every event. "The hunger to succeed ... was ravenous," Atman says. "In different historical circumstances any number of these artists could have seized control of the Reichstag or ruled Cambodia with unprecedented ruthlessness...
...have been killed in drug-related violence in the past three years. The cartels make an estimated $30 billion smuggling narcotics north to American users and some $5 billion more selling to the Mexican market. "It is illogical to have a law that allows drug consumption but does not control where it is coming from," says Representative Enrique Cardenas, who voted against the bill. "It will only fuel corruption and dealing...