At least 22 people in Trenton, N.J. and another 14 in Long Island have contracted the E. coli bacteria, all but six after consuming food from Taco Bell restaurants, according to U.S. health investigators.
Taco Bell had temporarily closed one of its fast-food restaurant in Middlesex County, N.J., and four in Suffolk County, N.Y. as a precautionary measure against E.coli., and is working with New Jersey health authorities seeking the cause of an outbreak of E. Coli which has sickened nearly a dozen people, six of whom remain in hospital.
The abusive boss has been well-documented in movies (“Nine to Five”), television (Fox’s “My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss”) and even the Internet. Now, a Florida State University professor and two of his doctoral students in Tallahassee, Fla. have conducted a study that shines some light on the magnitude of the problem and documents its effects on employee health and job performance.
A group of scientists at NYU School of Medicine have devised a way to reduce amyloid beta deposition by interfering with the deadly embrace of these proteins.
Transplanted neural stem cells hold promise for reducing the destruction of dopaminergic cells that occurs in Parkinson’s disease and for replacing cells lost to the disease, scientists say.
A study led by the University of Manchester’s Division of Psychiatry has found that schizophrenia patients respond just as well — and perhaps even better — to older psychiatric drugs as newer, costlier alternatives.
Dartmouth researchers report that three different steroid hormones all show similar responses to arsenic, suggesting a broader effect and a common mechanism of arsenic on how these hormones function.
Creativity and emotion are what makes advertising successful, not the message it is trying to get over, new research shows. Dr Robert Heath, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, found that advertisements with high levels of emotional content enhanced how people felt about brands, even when there was no real message.
Hydrogen-powered cars that do not pollute the environment are a step closer thanks to a new discovery which promises to solve the main problem holding back the technology.
A panel of academic, industry and government representatives, presenting at the ACNP Annual Meeting, concluded that several factors have impeded the development of novel treatments for mental illness, including: incomplete understanding of the impact of mental illness on the brain; continued skepticism of results from animal models for certain disorders, and an outdated paradigm of treatment and the industry preference toward so-called “me-too” drugs.