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With Africa at risk of a large meningitis outbreak, an acute shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to severely limit the world’s ability to minimize the number of people affected, four international public health organizations warned on July 28.

The diagram depicts the interplay between calcium and RGS2 during egg development and fertilization. RGS2 suppresses calcium signaling long enough for the sperm to travel and fuse with the egg.

Room sharing — keeping the infant’s sleep area in the same room and next to where the caregiver sleeps — is recommended as a way to reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related causes of infant death. Infants should not sleep in an adult bed, on a couch, or on a chair alone, with the parent or caregiver, with siblings or other small children, or with anyone else.

A computerized attention-control training program significantly reduced combat veterans’ preoccupation with – or avoidance of -- threat and attendant PTSD symptoms. By contrast, another type of computerized training, called attention bias modification – which has proven helpful in treating anxiety disorders – did not reduce PTSD symptoms. NIMH and Israeli researchers conducted parallel trials in which the two treatments were tested in US and Israeli combat veterans.