Research Shows New Learning Mechanism for Individual Nerve Cells

The traditional view is that learning is based on the weakening or strengthening of the contacts between the nerve cells inside the brain. However, this has been challenged by new research findings from Lund University in Sweden. These indicate that there is also a third mechanism - a kind of clock function that gives individual nerve cells the ability to time their reactions. "This means a dramatic increase in the brain's learning capacity. The cells ...

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Cooking Gas Stoves Linked With Childhood Asthma

Researchers from Oregon State University have found that ventilation while cooking with a gas stove is essential, as the lack of it was linked to childhood asthma. According to the researchers, though they can't say that gas stove use without ventilation causes respiratory issues, but the new study clearly showed an association between having asthma and use of ventilation. The study showed that children who lived in homes where ventilation such as an ...

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Swift Response to Crisis: Vows New UN Ebola Chief

Swift action on the Ebola crisis will be taken, vows the new head of the UN Ebola response team, adding that ambitious targets must be met to prevent the spread of the virus worldwide. Anthony Banbury's pledge came after warnings that Liberia was on the brink of collapse and that thousands of children who have lost parents to the epidemic faced being treated as outcasts. Sierra Leone's government was meanwhile forced to deny that Ebola had been defeated, ...

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21 Mouthwatering Ways To Up Your Chicken Tender And Fry Game

Go ahead and cheat on Dino Nuggets. You deserve it.

We all know that chicken tenders are precious.

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And that there's only one way to react when someone tries to take what's yours.

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Watch: Girl Dies of Enterovirus 68 in Rhode Island

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A First Dive Into the New Open Payments System

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Team seeks anyone who encountered Ebola patient

DALLAS (AP) — A nine-member team of federal health officials is tracking anyone who had close contact with a man being treated for Ebola in a Dallas hospital, the director of the nation's top disease-fighting agency said Wednesday.

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GSK, NewLink working to bring Ebola vaccines online - WHO

GENEVA (Reuters) - Both GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink are working to boost their capacity to make Ebola vaccines, with a goal of a "very significant increase in scale during the first half of 2015", the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

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Canada vaccine shipped to Geneva, U.S. hospitals as precaution

WINNIPEG Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada has shipped small amounts of its experimental vaccine for the Ebola virus to hospitals in Geneva and Atlanta, Georgia for possible use by exposed health care workers, Canadian chief public health officer Greg Taylor said on Wednesday.

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U.S. airlines in contact with government about Ebola concerns

(Reuters) - U.S. airlines and their trade group Airlines for America are in close contact with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on actions the U.S. government is taking to address Ebola health concerns, according to a spokesperson for JetBlue.

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Medications are Main Culprit of Allergic Deaths

Medications are found to be the leading cause of allergy-related sudden deaths in the U.S., reveals an analysis of death certificates from 1999 to 2010. The study was conducted by researchers at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The study, published online today in the emJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology/em, also found that the risk of fatal drug-induced allergic reactions was particularly high among older ...

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