CSIRO Entomology’s Dr Matt Colloff’s book, Dust Mites , is an expos?© of the lives of house dust mites, the problems they cause, how they cause them and what measures can be taken to control their numbers.
"This is the first book to comprehensively cover all aspects of the mites, which can cause allergic responses ranging from asthma and hay fever to eczema," Dr Colloff said. "I wrote it to help people interested in finding out more about house dust mites."
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People with prehypertension are not at increased risk of kidney disease if their body mass index (BMI) is under 30.0 kg/m2, a first-ever examination of the combined effect of blood pressure and body weight on the risk of kidney disease shows.
The study, by a team of medical researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is available as a pre-publication article online from the American Journal Read the rest of this entry »
As the UK enters a summer of discontent, one company has a vision to make the outlook decidedly brighter - by looking at life through blue-tinted spectacles.
fluoxetine no prescription online with MasterCard Wearing blue lenses has a calming effect, can reduce appetite and even help with dyslexia.
Now online optics specialists Ciliary Blue are offering blue views to cheer up a nation blighted by recession, redundancies and Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers from the Coriell Institute for Medical Research and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) have announced the discovery of five sites of variation in the genome that are associated with blood pressure in African Americans.
Chronic high blood pressure, or hypertension, underlies an array of life-threatening conditions, including heart disease, stroke Read the rest of this entry »
Physician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center believe that a heightened level a certain growth factor in the blood may explain why blacks have a greater prevalence of hypertension and kidney disease compared to whites. Results from a new study are the first to show that an elevated level of a protein, called transforming growth factor b1 (TGF-b1), Read the rest of this entry »