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Migraine Attacks Can be Prevented with High Blood Pressure Drug Candesartan - 0 views

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scibyte116 migraine

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  • Researchers say that the drug Candesartan may be prescribed for those who get no relief from propranolol.
  • researchers
  • have found that the drug Candesartan is as effective in combating migraines as the commonly prescribed drug propranolol for the malady.
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  • This finding is a follow up of a ten-year study from NTNU
  • Though the drug Candesartan is used by several doctors to treat migraine, this study proves the effectiveness of the drug in treating migraine
  • confirmed based on triple a blind test where the doctors, patients and even the researchers were unaware whether the patient was given a placebo or the real drug.
  • The study had 72 participants, who suffered migraine attacks atleast twice every month
  • The patients were given placebo, 16 mg of candesartan or 160 mg of propranolol for 12 weeks each and were given a break of 4 weeks without the medicines before the start of the drug and in between too.
  • more than 20 percent of those suffering with migraine attacks felt better even when they were given a placebo.
  • the blind test revealed that the candesartan works preventively for more 20-30 percent migraine patients
  • The study confirmed that 16 mg of candesartan was as effective as 160 mg of propranolol in treating migraine attacks.
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Countdown to Pluto - 0 views

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  • One of the fastest spacecraft ever built—NASA's New Horizons—
  • at nearly one million miles per day
  • The encounter begins next January
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  • Closest approach is scheduled for July 2015 when New Horizons flies only 10,000 km from Pluto
  • The first step, in January 2015, is an intensive campaign of photography by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or "LORRI."
  • This will help mission controllers pinpoint Pluto's location, which is uncertain by a few thousand kilometers
  • use the images to refine Pluto's distance from the spacecraft, and then fire the engines to make any necessary corrections
  • By late April 2015, the approaching spacecraft will be taking pictures of Pluto that surpass the best images from Hubble
  • If New Horizons flew over Earth at the same altitude, it could see individual buildings and their shapes
  • Other than a few indistinct markings seen from afar by Hubble, Pluto's landscape is totally unexplored
  • "If you drove a car around the equator of Pluto, the odometer would rack up almost 5,000 miles-as far as from Manhattan to Moscow."
  • possibility that New Horizons will discover new moons and rings as well
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January 26 - Today in Science History - Scientists born on January 26th, died, and events - 0 views

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scibyte116 LookingBack

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  • Canadian earthquake   In 1700, an earthquake, the most intense Canada has ever seen, hit the sea floor off the British Columbia coast. Long before Europeans first landed on Vancouver Island, native legend tells of a great disaster. The sea rose in a heaving wave, and landslides buried a sleeping village. Myth was resolved with science in 2003 by government research. Earthquakes of that intensity cause tidal waves, and Japanese written history tells of a massive tsunami striking fishing villages the next day along the coast of Honshu, killing hundreds. Coupled with geological evidence of the level 9 quake, the connection was clear. Mythology and seismology came together to validate history.
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January 23 - Today in Science History - Scientists born on January 23rd, died, and events - 0 views

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  • Pluto photographed (source)   In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh photographed the planet Pluto, the only planet discovered in the twentieth century, after a systematic search instigated by the predictions of other astronomers. Tombaugh was 24 years old when he made this discovery at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
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Send Your Names to an Asteroid, NASA Says - 0 views

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  • NASA invited the public to submit their names that will be engraved on a microchip aboard a spacecraft that will head to the 1,760-foot-wide asteroid.
  • The spacecraft will be sent to the asteroid where it will collect about two ounces of surface material and return with it to Earth in a sample-return capsule in 2023
  • submit their names online before September 30 at 'Message to Bennu.'
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  • your name not just stays up there for 500 days but will remain in space even after the spacecraft returns the capsule to Earth.
  • Those who have submitted their names can download and print a certificate documenting their participation in the OSIRIS-REx mission
  • Participants who have registered their names and who 'follow' or 'like' the asteroid mission on Facebook and Twitter will get notifications on the status of their name in space from the time it is launched and until the samples are returned to Earth in 2013.
  • The aim of the OSIRIS-Rex mission is to address the basic questions on the composition of the early solar system.
  • Once the samples return to the Earth, the spacecraft will be placed into a long term solar orbit around the sun, along with the microchip on which the names are engraved.
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The Rock that Appeared Out of Nowhere on Mars - 0 views

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  • An intriguing recent mystery is a strange rock that suddenly appeared in photos from the Opportunity rover in a spot where photos taken just 12 sols earlier showed no rock
  • described the rock as “white around the outside, in the middle there’s low spot that is dark red.
  • haven’t driven over that spot.
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  • “One theory is that we somehow flicked it with a wheel,”
  • . “We had driven a meter or two away from here and somehow maybe one of the wheels managed spit it out of the ground. That’s the more likely theory.”
  • Mars Exploration Rovers, mission principal investigator Steve Squyres
  • “The other theory is that there might be a smoking hole in the ground nearby and this may be crater ejecta. But that one is less likely,”
  • Another idea suggested by others is that it may have tumbled down from a nearby rock outcrop
  • making measurements on this rock.
  • looks like a jelly donut
  • We’ve taken pictures of both the donut part and the jelly part,”
  • . “The jelly part is like nothing we’ve seen before on Mars. It’s very high in sulfur and magnesium and it has twice as much manganese as anything we’ve seen before
  • I don’t know what any of this means. We’re completely confused, everybody on the team is arguing and fighting. We’re having a wonderful time!”
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NewsDaily: Seth MacFarlane brings his love of science to TV - 0 views

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  • Seth MacFarlane, creator of "Family Guy"
  • is bringing
  • "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," a 13-part series that will debut March 9 on Fox. It will also air on the National Geographic Channel.
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