The Schutter Diagnostic Lab on the Bozeman campus recently received a five-year grant for roughly %26#36;40,000 per year from the USDA, largely because the lab provides an early warning system of biological invaders, whether those invaders arrived here accidentally or because of someone’s intention.
What has been put in place is the ability to detect early, [...]
Much of the research effort around MRSA to date has focused primarily on hospitals, said Carmel Hughes, lead review author.
MRSA spreads easily — most commonly via the hands of health care workers — and first-line antibiotics, like penicillin, are ineffective against the organism. Nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable because infection with the bug tends [...]
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Identity theft struck more than 27.3 million Americans between April 1998 and April 2003, reports Timothy L. O’Brien, with more than a third being victimized in the last year alone. In that one-year period, businesses and banks lost $48 billion while individuals had to personally pay $5 billion in order to straighten out their [...]
Psoriasis is not generally thought of as life-threatening, but it just might be for those with the severest forms of the disease.
People with severe psoriasis had a 50% increased risk of death compared with people without the inflammatory skin disease in a newly reported study.
[...]
Vitamin D compounds, routinely given to patients with
chronic kidney disease to help preserve their bones, are not proven
scientifically to help, according to a new report.
Researchers evaluated 76 published trials on vitamin D compounds, performing
what is known as a meta-analysis, in which the results of several studies are
combined.
[...]
A new Canadian study links the diabetes drug Avandia to higher rates of
death, heart
attack, and congestive heart
failure in diabetes patients aged 66 and older.
The researchers say their study is the first to document a higher death rate
among patients taking thiazolidinediones — a class of diabetes drugsthat
includes Avandia, [...]
A new Canadian study links the diabetes drug Avandia to higher rates of
death, heart
attack, and congestive heart
failure in diabetes patients aged 66 and older.
The researchers say their study is the first to document a higher death rate
among patients taking thiazolidinediones — a class of diabetes drugsthat
includes Avandia, [...]
Cancer deaths among kids and teens in the U.S. have become rarer in recent years, according to a new CDC study.
The CDC today reported that the nation’s childhood cancer death rate — which includes kids and adolescents — decreased by 1.7% per year from 1990 to 2004, [...]
Scientists at the Texas A%26amp;M University System Agricultural Research and Extension at Lubbock are studying the family tree of cotton for much the same reason.
Cotton genetic diversity has narrowed in recent years, said Dr. John Gannaway, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station cotton breeder. Many of today’s successful commercial varieties share common parents [...]