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...authored by Stacey A. Missmer of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a team of researchers here and in Texas—correlates the over-consumption of corn tortillas with neural-tube defects (NTDs) in unborn children. Often debilitating and sometimes fatal, NTDs such as anencephaly and spina bifida have been linked directly to the tortillas and other corn products in the diets of expectant mothers living along the Rio Grande. Missmer and her associates isolated fumonsin, a fungal toxin often found in American corn crops, as the likely cause of these infants?...
...researchers said that eventually software should make it so that you don't ever have fatal car wrecks. But that's way in the future. The quality of software and the cameras and other things it would take, that's hard to do. Whereas some things, like revolutionizing TV or getting the right hardware and software so this tablet idea becomes mainstream, those are things we think we can do in the next several years. So we're constantly playing around with those ideas and it helps a lot to have a research group that doesn't have any particular...
...wasn't severe enough to be crippling. He had suffered plenty of trauma as well. "One rib was fractured and healed," says Owsley, "and there is a depression fracture on his forehead and a similar indentation on the left side of the head." None of those fractures were fatal, though, and neither was the spear jab. "The injury looks healed," says Owsley. "It wasn't a weeping abscess." Previous estimates had Kennewick Man's age as 45 to 55 when he died, but Owsley thinks he may have been as young as 38. Nothing in the bones reveals what caused...
...There are three other theories, unique to this year, and all favor Crash. One is that Brokeback, the front-runner after its critics? nods in December and its Golden Globe award in January, made the fatal faux pas of peaked too soon. Whereas Crash, which has lately been getting the majority of Hollywood?s favorite four-letter word, buzz, peaked at just the right time...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be used to detect acute appendicitis in pregnant women, according to a study conducted by a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors. Untreated acute appendicitis can be fatal to both the mother and fetus. Acute appendicitis is a rare condition, occurring in less than one percent of pregnant women and in about the same percentage of the general population, said Ivan Pedrosa, an assistant professor at HMS who worked on the study published in Consumer Health Daily. According to Pedrosa, many women experience abdominal pain while pregnant. Though the likelihood of a woman having...