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Subject: Phys.org Newsletter Sunday, Mar 9
To: Pascal Alter <pascal.alter@gmail.com>

Dear Pascal Alter,

Here is your customized Phys.org Newsletter for March 9, 2014:

Spotlight Stories Headlines

- Viewer interface for TV layers Web content for context
- Study reveals four new man-made gases in the atmosphere
- First animals oxygenated the ocean, research suggests
- World Wide Web turns 25 years old
- Sun's energy influences 1,000 years of natural climate variability in North Atlantic
- Mutations in leukemia gene linked to new childhood growth disorder
- Study finds herbivores can offset loss of plant biodiversity in grassland
- Spread of antibiotic resistance understood by unravelling bacterial secretion system
- Researchers create new tool to unravel the mysteries of metastasis
- Stem cell study opens door to undiscovered world of biology
- Blood test identifies those at-risk for cognitive decline, Alzheimer's within three years
- Flexible, semi-transparent ultrathin solar cells
- New bioinformatics tool to visualize transcriptomes
- Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced 150,000 attacks per second: report
- Thefts via public Wi-Fi are grounds for warning

Astronomy & Space news

Mark Kelly, twin brother enlisted for NASA study
Astronaut Mark Kelly and his twin brother will help NASA study the effects of spaceflight on the human body.

New NASA Van Allen Probes observations helping to improve space weather models
(Phys.org) —Using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes, researchers have tested and improved a model to help forecast what's happening in the radiation environment of near-Earth space—a place seething with fast-moving particles and a space weather system that varies in response to incoming energy and particles from the sun.

Medicine & Health news

AMA grants curriculum efforts to address health disparities
(HealthDay)—Medical schools are beginning to change their curriculum to address ways to eliminate health disparities, according to the American Medical Association (AMA).

California oversight may be coming to pot shops
(AP)—Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of weed.

Potent new painkiller stokes alarm in US
A potent new painkiller hit the US market this week, despite warnings from top experts that the drug may deliver a deadly setback in America's battle with opioid addiction.

Pfizer recalls some antidepressants after drug mixup
(HealthDay)—Two lots of Pfizer's antidepressant drug Effexor XR (venlafaxine HCl) are being recalled because they may contain capsules of another drug called Tikosyn (dofetilide), which is used to treat heart rhythm disorders.

Women more sensitive than men to sublingual zolpidem
(HealthDay)—Clearance of zolpidem (administered as a sublingual tablet; ZST) is lower in females compared to males, according to a study published in the March issue of The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

In STEMI, hyperglycemia tied to larger myocardial area-at-risk
(HealthDay)—For patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), hyperglycemia is associated with larger area-at-risk and infarct size, and the effect of exenatide treatment is independent of glucose levels, according to a study published online Feb. 28 in Diabetes.

Chest complaints more costly in obese patients
(HealthDay)—Higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased cost of care and longer hospital stays for patients who present to the emergency department with chest pain and dyspnea, according to research published online March 4 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Indoor air pollution tied to asthma, asthma-related symptoms
(HealthDay)—Indoor air pollution, specifically mold and environmental tobacco smoke, is associated with asthma and asthma-related respiratory symptoms in middle-aged adults, according to a study published online Feb. 12 in Respirology.

CDC: Child care flu vaccination requirements seem effective
(HealthDay)—Requiring the flu vaccination for child care admission seems to have increased vaccination rates and led to lower hospitalization rates for influenza in young children, according to a report published in the March 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Study finds doctors prescribing more sedatives
(HealthDay)—Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study suggests.

British govt says will not block assisted suicide bill
The British government will not stand in the way of legislation that would permit assisted suicide, the Ministry of Justice said Sunday as parliament prepares to examine a bill.

Stigma hinders efforts to combat leprosy in India
(AP)—At first, Ashok Yadav ignored the patches of pink skin on his arm. But when pale sores erupted on his body and he lost sensation in his fingertips, a doctor issued the devastating diagnosis: Yadav had leprosy.

Study on 3D scaffolds sets new bar in lung regeneration
In end-stage lung disease, transplantation is sometimes the only viable therapeutic option, but organ availability is limited and rejection presents an additional challenge. Innovative research efforts in the field of tissue regeneration, including pioneering discoveries by University of Vermont (UVM) Professor of Medicine Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues, holds promise for this population, which includes an estimated 12.7 million people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

Mutations in leukemia gene linked to new childhood growth disorder
Mutations in a gene associated with leukaemia cause a newly described condition that affects growth and intellectual development in children, new research reports.

Blood test identifies those at-risk for cognitive decline, Alzheimer's within three years
Researchers have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease within three years.

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